Arize Phoenix
A self-hostable LLM observability tool for tracing, evaluating, and debugging AI applications, built on OpenTelemetry.
Strengths
- Unified tracing, evaluation, datasets, experiments, and prompt management
- OpenTelemetry-based, with 40+ framework and provider integrations
- Runs fully locally via pip or Docker
Weaknesses
- Elastic License 2.0 is source-available, not OSI open source, and restricts hosted-service resale
- A lot of features to learn for basic tracing
- Usage telemetry is on by default unless disabled
At a glance
- Licence
- Elastic License 2.0
- Pricing
- Open core
- Platforms
- macOS, Windows, Linux, Docker, Web
- GPU required
- No
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Entry last verified 18 August 2026.