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MLflow vs Promptfoo: catalog facts
MLflowPromptfoo
Free

Free and open source.

Freemium

The open-source CLI is free; enterprise features are sold separately.

Web, Self-hosted, Command line Command line
  • Tracing built on OpenTelemetry, independent of LLM provider
  • 50+ built-in evaluation metrics and LLM judges
  • Runs from the command line with a single npx command
  • Compares prompts and models side by side
  • Broad feature set takes time to learn
  • Running it for a team means hosting and maintaining a server yourself
  • Red-teaming features are intended for authorized testing of your own applications
  • Some reporting features belong to the paid enterprise edition
Downloadable app, Self-hosted Downloadable app
Open source Open source
License: Apache-2.0 License not stated
No account 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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