Galileo vs. LangSmith

Learn why AI teams choose Galileo over LangSmith for agent observability. Real-time guardrails, 97% cost savings, framework flexibility, and the ability to stop failures before they ship.

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Visual Cost Comparison

Traditional Approach (LangSmith):
Galileo Approach:

GPT-4 evaluations: $10 per 1M tokens

Luna-2 evaluations: $0.20 per 1M tokens

20M daily traces: $200K/month

20M daily traces: $6K/month

Annual cost: $2.4M

Annual cost: $72K

Plus: External guardrails, synthetic data tools, metric versioning infrastructure

Includes: Built-in guardrails, synthetic data generation, metric store with CLHF

Total Savings: $2.3M+ annually

Visual Cost Comparison

Traditional Approach (LangSmith):
Galileo Approach:

GPT-4 evaluations: $10 per 1M tokens

Luna-2 evaluations: $0.20 per 1M tokens

20M daily traces: $200K/month

20M daily traces: $6K/month

Annual cost: $2.4M

Annual cost: $72K

Plus: External guardrails, synthetic data tools, metric versioning infrastructure

Includes: Built-in guardrails, synthetic data generation, metric store with CLHF

Total Savings: $2.3M+ annually

Visual Cost Comparison

Traditional Approach (LangSmith):
Galileo Approach:

GPT-4 evaluations: $10 per 1M tokens

Luna-2 evaluations: $0.20 per 1M tokens

20M daily traces: $200K/month

20M daily traces: $6K/month

Annual cost: $2.4M

Annual cost: $72K

Plus: External guardrails, synthetic data tools, metric versioning infrastructure

Includes: Built-in guardrails, synthetic data generation, metric store with CLHF

Total Savings: $2.3M+ annually

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"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

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"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

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"But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.

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Choose Galileo When You Need:

Production-Ready Capabilities:

Real-time protection for regulated workloads (financial services, healthcare, PII-sensitive)

Framework flexibility to avoid orchestration lock-in

Cost-efficient scale with 20M+ traces daily

Metric reusability across teams and projects

Sub-200ms guardrails that block failures inline

Agent-specific observability with session-level tracking

Deployment Flexibility:

SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem options

Data residency controls

SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001 compliance

Economic Viability:

97% cost reduction vs. GPT-4 evaluations

No external guardrail subscriptions needed

No synthetic data tooling costs

No metric versioning infrastructure to build

Choose Galileo When You Need:

Production-Ready Capabilities:

Real-time protection for regulated workloads (financial services, healthcare, PII-sensitive)

Framework flexibility to avoid orchestration lock-in

Cost-efficient scale with 20M+ traces daily

Metric reusability across teams and projects

Sub-200ms guardrails that block failures inline

Agent-specific observability with session-level tracking

Deployment Flexibility:

SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem options

Data residency controls

SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001 compliance

Economic Viability:

97% cost reduction vs. GPT-4 evaluations

No external guardrail subscriptions needed

No synthetic data tooling costs

No metric versioning infrastructure to build

Choose Galileo When You Need:

Production-Ready Capabilities:

Real-time protection for regulated workloads (financial services, healthcare, PII-sensitive)

Framework flexibility to avoid orchestration lock-in

Cost-efficient scale with 20M+ traces daily

Metric reusability across teams and projects

Sub-200ms guardrails that block failures inline

Agent-specific observability with session-level tracking

Deployment Flexibility:

SaaS, hybrid, or on-prem options

Data residency controls

SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001 compliance

Economic Viability:

97% cost reduction vs. GPT-4 evaluations

No external guardrail subscriptions needed

No synthetic data tooling costs

No metric versioning infrastructure to build

When LangSmith Makes Sense

We believe in transparent comparisons. LangSmith excels in specific scenarios:

Pure LangChain shops:

If 90%+ of your stack is LangChain and staying that way, the auto-instrumentation saves time

Early prototyping:

Pre-production teams iterating on prompts benefit from instant trace visualization

Small scale:

Under 1M traces monthly, LangSmith's SaaS model is plug-and-play

Where teams outgrow LangSmith:
Where teams outgrow LangSmith:

No runtime blocking (requires external guardrails)

No synthetic test data (testing in prod becomes default)

Framework lock-in (custom orchestrators require heavy lifting)

Evaluator recreation (no metric reusability across projects)

Cost at scale (GPT-4 evals compound past 10M traces/month)

When LangSmith Makes Sense

We believe in transparent comparisons. LangSmith excels in specific scenarios:

Pure LangChain shops:

If 90%+ of your stack is LangChain and staying that way, the auto-instrumentation saves time

Early prototyping:

Pre-production teams iterating on prompts benefit from instant trace visualization

Small scale:

Under 1M traces monthly, LangSmith's SaaS model is plug-and-play

Where teams outgrow LangSmith:

No runtime blocking (requires external guardrails)

No synthetic test data (testing in prod becomes default)

Framework lock-in (custom orchestrators require heavy lifting)

Evaluator recreation (no metric reusability across projects)

Cost at scale (GPT-4 evals compound past 10M traces/month)

When LangSmith Makes Sense

We believe in transparent comparisons. LangSmith excels in specific scenarios:

Pure LangChain shops:

If 90%+ of your stack is LangChain and staying that way, the auto-instrumentation saves time

Early prototyping:

Pre-production teams iterating on prompts benefit from instant trace visualization

Small scale:

Under 1M traces monthly, LangSmith's SaaS model is plug-and-play

Where teams outgrow LangSmith:

No runtime blocking (requires external guardrails)

No synthetic test data (testing in prod becomes default)

Framework lock-in (custom orchestrators require heavy lifting)

Evaluator recreation (no metric reusability across projects)

Cost at scale (GPT-4 evals compound past 10M traces/month)

Start Building Reliable AI Agents

Moving from reactive debugging to proactive quality assurance requires a platform built for production complexity.

Automated CI/CD guardrails:

Block releases failing quality thresholds

Multi-dimensional evaluation:

Luna-2 models assess correctness, toxicity, bias, and adherence at 97% lower cost

Real-time runtime protection:

Scan every prompt/response, block harmful outputs before users see them

Intelligent failure detection:

Insights Engine clusters failures, surfaces root causes, and recommends fixes

CLHF optimization:

Transform expert reviews into reusable evaluators in minutes