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Phoenix

Arize's open-source observability for LLM apps — OpenTelemetry-based tracing and evaluation.

★ 10k on GitHub·Jupyter Notebook·data updated 2026-07-06
GitHub stars★ 10k
LanguageJupyter Notebook
CategoryObservability

What Phoenix is for

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Langfuse

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Open-source LLM engineering platform — tracing, evals, prompt management, and metrics for agent apps.

Helicone

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Open-source observability for LLM apps via a proxy — logging, caching, and cost tracking with one header.

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