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Arize Phoenix vs Evidently: catalog facts
Arize PhoenixEvidently
Freemium

Phoenix is free to self-host; Arize AX is a separate managed paid platform.

Free

Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

Web, Self-hosted Command line
  • Tracing, evals, prompts and experiments in one tool
  • Runs locally, in Docker or on Kubernetes
  • Covers both LLM systems and classic ML models
  • Checks for drift, hallucinations and data leaks
  • Source-available license rather than an OSI-approved one
  • Some advanced features are in the separate paid Arize AX product
  • Requires writing Python code to set up checks
  • Some evaluations depend on access to a judge model
Self-hosted, Hosted service Downloadable app
Closed source Open source
License: Elastic-2.0 License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked September 26, 2026

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