Braintrust
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What it is
Braintrust is a hosted platform for evals and tracing of AI apps. Its data plane can run in your own cloud, but only on the Enterprise plan.
Best for
#3 of 3Evals for Build a customer-support agent
Total 6.8 / 10
- Tracing depth & debugging (25%)7 / 10
Evidence:0046 (source: Braintrust)
- Eval features (25%)8 / 10
- Integration effort (20%)7 / 10
Evidence:0046 (source: Braintrust)
- Cost / free tier (15%)7 / 10Starter $0, 14-day retention; Pro $249/mo.
Evidence:0045 (source: Braintrust)
- Openness / self-host (15%)4 / 10Proprietary; on-prem enterprise only.
Evidence:0045 (source: Braintrust)
#3 of 3Evals for Build a deep-research agent
Total 6.9 / 10
- Tracing depth & debugging (25%)7 / 10
Evidence:0046 (source: Braintrust)
- Eval features (30%)8 / 10
- Integration effort (15%)7 / 10
Evidence:0046 (source: Braintrust)
- Cost / free tier (15%)7 / 10Starter $0, 14-day retention; Pro $249/mo.
Evidence:0045 (source: Braintrust)
- Openness / self-host (15%)4 / 10Proprietary.
Evidence:0045 (source: Braintrust)
Strengths
- Combined tracing (observe) and evals platform.0046 (source: Braintrust)
- Self-hosted data plane on AWS/GCP/Azure via official Terraform (Enterprise).0058 (source: braintrust.dev)
- Free Starter tier (1 GB processed data, 10k scores).0045 (source: Braintrust)
Limits
- Self-hosting is Enterprise-only and the control plane stays Braintrust-hosted.0058 (source: braintrust.dev)
- Starter has 14-day retention; Pro jumps to $249/month.0045 (source: Braintrust)
Pricing
Freemium
Starter $0; Pro $249/month.0045 (source: Braintrust)
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License
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Disclosures
- None