// I want to solve · Developers / Enterprise IT
📈 Evaluate and monitor AI quality
Build regression tests for prompts and agents, record traces, catch silent model degradation, and tell vendor-reported scores from independent ones.
4 steps3 alternatives2 stacks · 2 problemschecked 2026-10-22
How to do it
- 01Build a gold set of 30–100 real questions and expected answers
- 02Run regressions before prompt or model changes (promptfoo / DeepEval)
- 03Record traces, cost and latency in production (Langfuse / Phoenix)
- 04Tell vendor-reported scores from independent ones on public leaderboards
What it costs
Free start
Main tools are open source
Team / enterprise
Hosted versions bill by trace volume; see their sites
Pay as you go
LLM-as-judge adds model call costs
Prices change; the vendor’s official page wins. Subscriptions compared · API prices
Alternatives: which to pick
✓ Good fit
- LLM features in or near production
✗ Not a good fit
- Prototyping
Ready-made stacks
All stacksSoftware that helps
All software🧪 Evaluation, red-teaming & guardrails📈 Observability & tracing
Problems & solutions
All problems- How-toCatch silent quality drops after model or prompt changesBuild a fixed regression suite for prompts and agents and run it before and after every change or model switch, like unit tests.
- How-toSelf-hosted LLM observability: trace every call and agent stepRecording every model and tool call’s input, output, latency and tokens as traces is what lets you debug. Open-source options can be self-hosted so data stays on your network.
Needs in this scenario
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DEV-04Evaluation, regression and silent model degradation
Developers · People search for: llm eval framework; model quality degradation; promptfoo alternative
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DEV-12Observability: multi-agent runs and MCP servers without logs
Developers · People search for: llm observability open source; otel genai; mcp server logs
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DEV-02AI-generated code is hard to verify and review
Developers · People search for: ai code review tool; verify ai generated code
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ENT-01Choosing the control plane: gateways, observability, security, identity
Enterprise IT · People search for: enterprise llm gateway comparison; ai observability platform
Learn
All tutorials- OpenAI Evals 指南
OpenAI · Evaluation · English
- Anthropic: Define success criteria and build evaluations
Anthropic · Evaluation · English
- Hugging Face Evaluation Guidebook
Hugging Face · Evaluation · English
- lm-evaluation-harness
EleutherAI · Evaluation · English
- Evaluating and Debugging Generative AI
DeepLearning.AI / W&B · Evaluation · English
- Hamel Husain: Your AI Product Needs Evals
Hamel Husain · Evaluation · English
- Inspect AI 文档
UK AI Security Institute · Evaluation · English
- promptfoo 文档
promptfoo · Evaluation · English
- Evaluating AI Agents
DeepLearning.AI · Evaluation · English
- ai-evals-course/recipe-chatbot
ai-evals-course · Evaluation · English