spb/tools-spboucher-ai

1{2  "slug": "braintrust",3  "name": "Braintrust",4  "aliases": ["Braintrust Data", "braintrust.dev"],5  "vendor": { "name": "Braintrust Data, Inc.", "slug": "braintrust-data", "website": "https://www.braintrust.dev" },6  "homepage_url": "https://www.braintrust.dev/",7  "docs_url": "https://docs.braintrust.dev/",8  "repo_url": "https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript",9  "pricing_url": "https://www.braintrust.dev/pricing",10  "product_type": "platform",11  "product_status": "active",12  "summary": "Hosted observability and evaluation platform for AI agents with tracing, experiments, pattern detection, a CLI, MCP access and an AI assistant (Loop) that analyzes traces and builds evals",13  "description": "Braintrust is a commercial platform for instrumenting, understanding and improving AI agents. Applications send traces through open-source SDKs (TypeScript and Python, Apache-2.0) or the `bt` CLI; the platform then supports experiments that compare prompts and models, datasets built from human annotation, and a Patterns feature that surfaces recurring problems in traces with suggested fixes. Loop, an embedded agent, can analyze data and generate evaluations on request, and an MCP server exposes Braintrust data and actions to coding assistants. The workflow is organized as Instrument, Observe, Annotate, Evaluate, Deploy and Admin.\n\nPlans are Starter (entry tier), Pro and Enterprise, differing in retention, included processing and governance features; Enterprise adds SAML SSO, custom retention and on-premises or hosted deployment for sensitive data. The SDKs are open source but the platform is proprietary and hosted, so self-hosting is an enterprise arrangement rather than a download. Braintrust is a strong fit for teams who want evals and production traces in one place with a polished UI; those needing a free self-hosted stack typically look at Langfuse.",14  "capabilities": ["Tracing of agent runs with pattern detection", "Experiments comparing prompts and models with scorers", "Datasets built from annotation and production data", "Loop AI assistant for analysis and eval generation", "`bt` CLI and MCP server for tool integration", "Open-source TypeScript and Python SDKs"],15  "workflows": ["Instrument an agent and triage recurring failures from Patterns", "Run an experiment across model versions before shipping", "Ask Loop to draft evaluators from annotated traces"],16  "advantages": ["Evals and observability tightly coupled", "Open-source SDKs", "Agent-assisted analysis built in"],17  "limitations": ["Proprietary hosted platform", "Self-hosting only on Enterprise", "Retention and processing metered by plan"],18  "prerequisites": ["Braintrust account and API key", "TypeScript or Python application to instrument"],19  "audiences": ["Product teams shipping LLM features", "AI engineers running systematic evals"],20  "alternatives": ["langfuse", "langsmith", "weights-and-biases", "promptfoo"],21  "categories": [{ "slug": "llm-ops", "primary": true }],22  "tags": ["llm", "evaluation", "monitoring", "agents", "typescript", "python"],23  "use_cases": ["evaluate-llm-apps", "monitor-services"],24  "operating_systems": ["web"],25  "execution_modes": ["cloud"],26  "interfaces": ["web", "sdk", "cli", "mcp-server"],27  "deployment_models": ["saas", "on-premises"],28  "integrations": ["OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Vercel AI SDK", "Model Context Protocol"],29  "data_formats": ["JSON"],30  "languages": ["TypeScript", "Python"],31  "source_model": "mixed",32  "pricing_model": ["freemium", "paid", "enterprise"],33  "pricing_checked_at": "2026-11-02",34  "self_hostable": null,35  "sources": [36    { "url": "https://www.braintrust.dev/", "type": "official_site", "title": "Braintrust", "supports": ["name", "summary"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },37    { "url": "https://docs.braintrust.dev/", "type": "official_docs", "title": "Braintrust documentation", "supports": ["capabilities", "interfaces"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" },38    { "url": "https://www.braintrust.dev/pricing", "type": "pricing_page", "supports": ["pricing_model", "deployment_models"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02", "note": "Starter, Pro, Enterprise" },39    { "url": "https://github.com/braintrustdata/braintrust-sdk-javascript", "type": "repository", "title": "Braintrust JavaScript SDK (Apache-2.0)", "supports": ["languages", "source_model"], "checked_at": "2026-11-02" }40  ],41  "confidence": "medium",42  "uncertainty_note": "Self-hosting is described only as an Enterprise on-prem option, so self_hostable is left null. Starter is the entry plan; the pricing page does not label any tier as free.",43  "discovery_method": "editorial-research",44  "depth": "standard",45  "editorial_status": "reviewed",46  "visibility": "public",47  "featured": false,48  "author": "batch-A"49}50