LangChain

Observe, Evaluate, and Deploy Reliable AI Agents

Also known as
langchain

What is LangChain?

LangSmith is an all-in-one developer platform for building, observing, evaluating, and deploying LLM-powered agents across the application lifecycle. Framework-agnostic with support for multiple SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Go, Java) and model providers.

Independently observed

LangChain pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $1/moHybridFree tier

Free Developer plan, Plus at $39/seat/month, Enterprise custom pricing. All plans include metered usage charges: LCU $1.50, LSU $1.00.

Developer

Free
Free
monthly · min 1 seats

For solo users getting started

seats
1
base_traces
5k/mo
  • Up to 5k base traces/mo
  • Pay-as-you-go for additional traces
  • Community support
  • 1 seat
  • Observability & Evaluation

Plus

$39/seat/month + usage-based charges
monthly

For teams building and deploying agents

seats
unlimited
base_traces
10k/mo
  • Up to 10k base traces/mo
  • Unlimited seats
  • Access to Deployment, Engine, and more
  • 25 LCU Fleet usage/mo included
  • 1 free Serverless deployment included

Enterprise

Contact sales
Contact sales

For teams with advanced hosting, security, and support needs

  • Custom pricing
  • Custom trace volume
  • Self-hosted and hybrid deployment options
  • Custom SSO, ABAC, and RBAC
  • Support SLA
  • Custom seats and workspaces

What LangChain does

The capabilities that matter for mlops & llmops tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

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

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS
  • Hybrid
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (4)

Independently observed
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google
  • OpenTelemetry

LangChain alternatives

Other mlops & llmops tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for LangChain, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 76 / 100
medium · 55%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities10032.003200.0
Package Downloads8426.002175.4
Pricing Transparency10016.001600.0
Github Activity6318.001135.8
Security Posture8012.00960.0
Price Level8010.00800.0
Reliability5012.00600.0
Github Stars975.00486.4
Integrations2018.00361.8
Release Cadence010.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Activity

AttributeValueEvidence
Commits last 30d100mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 65%

Adoption

AttributeValueEvidence
Github stars143,345highsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%
Package downloads weekly2,765,067highsource · 2026-08-03 · 85%

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count4mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Language

AttributeValueEvidence
PrimaryPythonhighsource · 2026-08-03 · 90%

License

AttributeValueEvidence
SpdxMIThighsource · 2026-08-03 · 99%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommerciallowsource · 2026-08-03 · 40%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp1mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
GdprYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
HipaaYeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Iso27001Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%
Soc2Yeshighsource · 2026-08-03 · 75%