Comparison

LangSmith vs Ray

On the evidence we track, Ray leads this comparison with a composite score of 67/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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LangSmith57
Ray67
Score
Vioscale score
LangSmith57 / 100low · 12%
Ray67 / 100medium · 68%
Pricing
Free tier
LangSmith
Ray
Model
LangSmith
Price level
LangSmith
Rayfree
Integrations
Count
LangSmith
Ray17
Reliability
Status page
LangSmith
Ray
Adoption
Dependent repos
LangSmith
Github stars
LangSmith
Package downloads weekly
LangSmith
Activity
Commits last 30d
LangSmith
Ray100
Release
Cadence days
LangSmith
Ray18
History
LangSmith
License
Spdx
LangSmith
Language
Primary
LangSmith
Market
Availability

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool role
LangSmithLLM observability / eval
Ray-
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
LangSmith
Ray
Managed cloud available
LangSmith
Ray
On-prem / VPC deployment
LangSmith
Ray
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
LangSmith
Ray-
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
LangSmith
Ray-
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
LangSmith-
Ray-
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
LangSmith-
Ray
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
LangSmith
Ray
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
LangSmith-
Ray-
Framework-agnostic
LangSmith
Ray
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
LangSmith-
Ray
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
LangSmith-
Ray-

What each one is

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

LangSmith

LangSmith enables users to observe, evaluate, and deploy AI agents through a web interface that requires no coding. The platform provides tools for agent engineering and monitoring.

Independently observed

Ray

Leader

Ray is an open-source unified framework for scaling Python and machine learning applications across any infrastructure. It provides distributed compute primitives, specialized AI libraries for data processing, model training, tuning, and serving, with seamless scaling from development environments to large clusters.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

LangSmith

Pricing not documented yet.

Ray

Leader
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
LangSmith
Ray
CLI
LangSmith
Ray
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
LangSmith
Ray
Self-hosted
LangSmith
Ray
On-premise
LangSmith
Ray
Hybrid
LangSmith
Ray

Integrations

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

LangSmith

Not documented yet.

Ray

Leader
19 total
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • AIBrix
  • AReaL
  • Cosmos Curate
  • Daft
  • Data-Juicer
  • DeltaCAT
  • Modin
  • NeMo Curator
  • NeMo-RL
  • OpenRLHF
  • RayDP
  • ROLL
  • SkyRL
  • SLIME
  • Syftr
  • verl
  • vLLM
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.