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Braintrust vs MLflow: catalog facts
BraintrustMLflow
Freemium

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

Free

Free and open source.

Web Web, Self-hosted, Command line
  • Real-time tracing of prompts, responses and tool calls
  • Evals scored by LLMs, code or humans
  • Tracing built on OpenTelemetry, independent of LLM provider
  • 50+ built-in evaluation metrics and LLM judges
  • Hosted service that requires an account
  • Aimed at teams building LLM products, not individual users
  • Broad feature set takes time to learn
  • Running it for a team means hosting and maintaining a server yourself
Hosted service Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: Apache-2.0
Account needed No account needed
Needs internet Not stated if it works offline

Checked October 1, 2026

Checked September 26, 2026

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