Comparison

Arize Phoenix vs Weights & Biases Weave

No clear leader: Arize Phoenix (53.7) and Weights & Biases Weave (51.7) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Arize Phoenix54
Weights & Biases Weave52
Score
vioscaleAI score
Arize Phoenix54 / 100medium · 51%
Weights & Biases Weave52 / 100low · 25%
Pricing
Free tier
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✓
Model
Arize Phoenixopen_source
Weights & Biases Weavefree
Price level
Arize Phoenixfree
Weights & Biases Weavefree
Transparent
Arize Phoenix–
Weights & Biases Weave✗
Integrations
Count
Arize Phoenix11
Weights & Biases Weave14
Adoption
Dependent repos
Arize Phoenix0
Weights & Biases Weave–
Github stars
Arize Phoenix11,858
Weights & Biases Weave–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Arize Phoenix100
Weights & Biases Weave–
Release
History
Arize Phoenix20 items
Weights & Biases Weave–
Language
Primary
Arize PhoenixPython
Weights & Biases Weave–
Content
Faq
Arize Phoenix3 items
Weights & Biases Weave4 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for llm observability. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Architecture model
Arize PhoenixOpen source self hosted
Weights & Biases WeaveManaged cloud saas
Token cost and latency waterfall charts
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave-
Opentelemetry openllmetry native export support
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave-
Prompt playground and in dashboard replay
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✓
Multi step agentic workflow distributed tracing
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✓
User feedback score API for thumbs up down tags
Arize Phoenix-
Weights & Biases Weave-
Pii redaction and prompt content masking
Arize Phoenix-
Weights & Biases Weave✓
Production ab testing of system prompts
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave-
Automated anomaly detection for rate limits
Arize Phoenix-
Weights & Biases Weave-
Native integration with langchain and llamaindex
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✓
SOC2 type ii
Arize Phoenix-
Weights & Biases Weave-
Mit or apache permissive oss license
Arize Phoenix-
Weights & Biases Weave-
Pricing model
Arize PhoenixFree open source
Weights & Biases Weave-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Arize Phoenix

A self-hosted platform that traces and evaluates language model application behavior using OpenTelemetry instrumentation, enabling teams to debug, optimize, and monitor LLM performance.

Independently observed

Weights & Biases Weave

Platform for observability and analysis of production AI agent systems, featuring distributed tracing across multi-agent workflows, built-in evaluation APIs for model and prompt testing, and safety guardrails with pre-built scorers for toxicity, bias, PII detection, and hallucinations.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Arize Phoenix

Open sourceFree tier

Open-source and free

as of verify ↗

Weights & Biases Weave

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✓
CLI
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Arize Phoenix✗
Weights & Biases Weave✓
Self-hosted
Arize Phoenix✓
Weights & Biases Weave✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (5)
  • LlamaIndex
  • OpenAI
  • AWS Bedrock
  • Claude Code
  • LangChain

Arize Phoenix

19 total - 14 not shared
  • Anthropic
  • Vertex AI
  • Cursor
  • OpenLLMetry
  • OpenTelemetry
  • OpenInference
  • Gemini
  • Google Vertex AI
  • Google Gemini
  • Together AI
  • Fireworks
  • NVIDIA NIM
  • LiteLLM
  • Traceloop
Independently observed

Weights & Biases Weave

19 total - 14 not shared
  • Slack
  • CrowdStrike Falcon AIDR
  • OpenPI
  • CoreWeave
  • NVIDIA
  • JAX
  • PyTorch
  • OpenAI GPT-5.6
  • OpenAI GPT-5.5
  • Zhipu GLM-5.2
  • Alibaba Kimi 2.7
  • Anthropic Claude Opus 4.8
  • Webhooks
  • Google ADK
Independently observed
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Arize Phoenix or Weights & Biases Weave: which one depends on you

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