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Braintrust vs Arize Phoenix: catalog facts
BraintrustArize Phoenix
Freemium

Self-serve sign-up with paid plans listed on the pricing page.

Freemium

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

Web Web, Self-hosted
  • Real-time tracing of prompts, responses and tool calls
  • Evals scored by LLMs, code or humans
  • Tracing, evals, prompts and experiments in one tool
  • Runs locally, in Docker or on Kubernetes
  • Hosted service that requires an account
  • Aimed at teams building LLM products, not individual users
  • Source-available license rather than an OSI-approved one
  • Some advanced features are in the separate paid Arize AX product
Hosted service Self-hosted, Hosted service
Closed source Closed source
License not stated License: Elastic-2.0
Account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 26, 2026

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