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Opik vs OpenObserve

OpikOpenObserve

Bottom line: Opik for teams wanting open-source eval plus tracing; OpenObserve for teams running agents in production.

Open-source LLM evaluation, tracing, and observability by Comet.

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

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryLlm ObservabilityLlm Observability
Tags
llm-evaluationobservabilityopen-sourcetracingmonitoring
opentelemetryllm tracingagent observabilitytoken costopen source
Best for
  • Teams wanting open-source eval plus tracing
  • LLM engineers doing eval-driven development
  • Organizations that value self-hostability
  • Teams running agents in production
  • Platform teams already using OpenTelemetry
  • Organisations needing LLM cost attribution
Pros
  • Full platform is Apache-2.0 and free to self-host
  • Combines tracing and evaluation in one tool
  • LLM-as-a-judge and many automated metrics
  • Fast-growing, widely adopted open-source project
  • Integrates with Comet's ML ecosystem
  • 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
  • Crowded, competitive category
  • Self-hosting requires running infrastructure
  • Managed cloud limits (spans, seats) on lower tiers
  • Evaluation quality depends on judge configuration
  • Deep value tied to adopting the workflow
  • 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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