EAIP, compared honestly

Observability tools trace what happened. Gateways route the model call. EAIP governs the whole agent at runtime. These pages spell out the difference — including where the other tool is the right choice.

• EAIP vs LangSmith →

  LangSmith (by LangChain) is the leading observability, tracing and evals product for LLM applications — strongest inside the LangChain/LangGraph ecosystem.

• EAIP vs Langfuse →

  Langfuse is a popular open-source LLM engineering platform — tracing, prompt management, evals and analytics — with a strong self-hosting story.

• EAIP vs Portkey →

  Portkey is an AI gateway: one API in front of many model providers, with routing, caching, retries, cost controls and gateway-level guardrails.

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