Laminar

Open-source observability and evals platform for AI agents (Apache-2.0)

What Laminar does

  • Open-source observability and evals platform for AI agents (Apache-2.0)
  • Traces, session replay for browser agents and evaluations
  • Self-hostable

Laminar — straight answers

What is Laminar?

Laminar is listed under LLM Eval & Observability, in the AI Models & Local Execution category on Flocci AI Tools. Open-source observability and evals platform for AI agents (Apache-2.0). It is free, with no paid plan attached, and it lives at github.com.

Is Laminar free?

Laminar is listed as fully free — there is no paid tier attached to it in the catalog. That makes it one of the 399 entries on Flocci AI Tools with no upgrade path built in.

What can Laminar do?

Laminar does 3 things the catalog singles out: Open-source observability and evals platform for ai agents (apache-2.0); traces, session replay for browser agents and evaluations; self-hostable.

What is the best free alternative to Laminar?

Arize Phoenix is the closest free alternative: it sits in the same LLM Eval & Observability sub-category and is free. DeepEval, EleutherAI LM Evaluation Harness and Google Stax also start free. The full list is on the alternatives page.

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Langfuse

LLM Eval & Observability
freemium
  • Fully open-source and self-hostable for free via Docker Compose/Kubernetes, not just a hosted SaaS
  • Hobby cloud plan is free with no credit card, 50k observability units/month
  • Combines tracing, prompt management, evals and datasets in one open platform

Braintrust

LLM Eval & Observability
freemium
  • Free Starter plan ships model credits and scored evals with no card required
  • Unlimited users/projects/datasets/playgrounds even on the free tier
  • Built-in playground for side-by-side prompt/model comparison against production traces

Promptfoo

LLM Eval & Observability
freemium
  • Open-source CLI/library for evaluating prompts, models and RAG pipelines side by side, runs in CI
  • Automated red-teaming to surface prompt injection, jailbreak and data-leak vulnerabilities
  • 300,000+ user community with an enterprise tier for teams needing hosted guardrails

W&B Weave

LLM Eval & Observability
freemium
  • Agent-native tracing model with sessions, steps, tools and sub-agents as first-class concepts (not generic spans)
  • Pre-built safety/quality scorers for toxicity, bias, PII and hallucination detection out of the box
  • Built on Weights & Biases' existing ML-experiment infrastructure, useful for teams already on W&B

Arize Phoenix

LLM Eval & Observability
free
  • Fully open-source, self-hostable with zero setup via `uvx` (pip/conda also supported)
  • Combines tracing, evals, datasets, experiments and prompt playground in one local-first tool
  • AI engineering agent (PXI) built in for automated troubleshooting of traces

Google Stax

LLM Eval & Observability
freeNew
  • Build evals with human raters or LLM autoraters on your own data
  • Compare models and prompts on quality, latency and token cost
  • Prebuilt and custom evaluators

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