LLM evaluationBraintrust vs Langfuse vs Promptfoo: Don't Pay for the Gate
Promptfoo's CLI is the only one of the four that fails a build without you writing the enforcement code, and it costs nothing. The paid platforms sell what happens after the gate: stored traces, run-to-run diffs and a review queue.
August 26, 2026 · 17 min readAI observability pricingAI Observability Pricing: Same 10 GB, $49 or $930
Eleven AI observability options priced against one workload — 500,000 agent runs a month, 5 million spans, 10 GB of traces. The same telemetry costs $49 at SigNoz Cloud and about $930 at W&B Weave, and retention is a bigger multiplier than traffic.
August 19, 2026 · 17 min readAI agent observabilityBest AI Agent Monitoring: Langfuse, Then a Real Kill Switch
Seven agent monitoring tools priced against the same workload: 50,000 runs a month at 12 steps each. Self-hosted Langfuse wins on cost and audit depth — but only one of these tools sits in the request path where it can actually stop a runaway agent, and that is the part you have to build yourself.
August 11, 2026 · 16 min read