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Galileo vs OpenObserve

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Bottom line: Galileo for teams shipping GenAI apps to production; OpenObserve for teams running agents in production.

Evaluation intelligence and observability platform for GenAI apps and agents

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OpenTelemetry-native observability for LLM calls, tools, and agent handoffs

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryLlm ObservabilityLlm Observability
Tags
llm-evaluationobservabilityguardrailsgenai-metricsagent-monitoring
opentelemetryllm tracingagent observabilitytoken costopen source
Best for
  • Teams shipping GenAI apps to production
  • Organizations needing evaluation rigor
  • Agent developers wanting guardrails
  • Teams running agents in production
  • Platform teams already using OpenTelemetry
  • Organisations needing LLM cost attribution
Pros
  • Purpose-built Luna evaluation models (fast, cheaper than LLM-judge)
  • 20+ research-backed metrics
  • Covers evaluation, observability, and guardrails
  • Polished console with minimal setup
  • Free plan with 5,000 traces/month
  • Agent traces are standard OpenTelemetry spans, not a silo
  • Per-span token cost from your own model pricing
  • Unlimited users with no per-seat charge
  • AGPL-3.0 core with a self-hosted option
  • Self-hosted enterprise free up to 50 GB per day
Cons
  • Pro at $100/month may be steep for small teams
  • Free plan lacks RBAC and advanced analytics
  • Managed platform hosts your evaluation data (unless enterprise self-host)
  • Text/GenAI-focused
  • Advanced features gated to higher tiers
  • LLM observability is labelled preview
  • Online evaluations are an enterprise feature
  • Ingestion-based pricing needs volume forecasting
  • Self-hosting carries operational overhead
  • Payload capture raises data governance questions

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