Braintrust ✓
AI observability platform for building quality AI products.
Free + from $249/mo
Verdict
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- Best if
- AI observability platform for building quality AI products
- Skip if
- Complex trace database system
- Pick this when
- Real-time tracing
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Overview
Braintrust positions itself as an AI observability platform designed for building quality AI products. It caters to different AI teams, with its tools relevant to engineering and product sectors.
Braintrust's functionality is based on the principle of real-time observation, evaluation against expectations, and continuous iteration to monitor and rectify AI biases and errors such as drifts and hallucinations.
The platform offers several key features: - Real-time tracing allows the inspection of prompts, responses, and tool calls. - Live performance monitoring measures AI quality, scoring outputs with Language models, code, or human judgement.- Automated alerts catch issues and block problematic releases before they enter production.These main features are aimed at enabling users to acquire a real-time understanding of what occurs in an AI's production.
It allows one to log actions, monitor performance and receive alerts ahead of issues being noticed by users. Braintrust also provides the ability to define evaluation criteria prior to shipping the product, allowing for side-by-side comparisons, automatic regression detection, and scoring with code, LLMs or human input.Running parallel to these, Braintrust equips users with tools to optimise with loop agent AI and customise trace views.
Uniquely, Braintrust offers Brainstore, a database designed for AI data management at scale, which accommodates the complexity of AI traces and facilitates quick query search.
The platform also offers strong security credentials being SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant amongst other compliances. It supports a broad range of coding languages with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, C#, and more.
Braintrust is touted as being framework agnostic, working with any existing stack without necessitating rewrites or creating vendor dependencies.
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Capabilities
What this tool accepts, produces, and is strongest at.
Input
- API
- Tabular
Output
- Code
- Tabular
- API
- Text
Pros & cons
Pros
- Real-time tracing
- Live performance monitoring
- Automated alerts
- Side-by-side comparisons
- Automatic regression detection
- Score with code/LLMs/human input
- Customisable trace views
- Quick query search
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- Strong security credentials
- SOC 2 Type II certified
- GDPR compliant
- Supports Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, C#
- Framework agnostic
- No need for rewrites
- No vendor dependencies
- Scalable log ingestion
- Inspect production in real-time
- Real-time latency/cost/quality tracking
- Run experiments against real datasets
- Support for annotation interfaces
- Turn traces into eval datasets
- SDKs for major coding languages
- Faster full text search
- Faster write latency
- Faster span load time
- Compliant from day one
- SSO, RBAC, HIPAA compliant
- Hybrid deployment options
- Granular permissions
- Allows for multiple integrations
- Fast prompt engineering
- Versioned datasets
- Automated and human scoring
- Full compliance with HIPAA requirements
- Inspect prompts, responses, and tool calls
- Block bad releases before production
- Define evaluation criteria pre-shipping
- Broad range of coding languages support
- Custom builds annotation interfaces
- Turn production traces into eval datasets
Cons
- No mobile compatibility
- Complex trace database system
- No multi-lingual language support
- No free trial option
- Hybrid deployment complexities
- Focused on large-scale operations
- May require learning curve
- No dedicated customer support
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- Limited SDK language support
- Locked into Brainstore database
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