Opik vs Laminar

Opik9.1Visit Laminar8.7Visit

Higher score Opik #4 in LLM Observability Tools 9.1/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 6 of 6 features Visit Opik

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Laminar #8 in LLM Observability Tools 8.7/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 6 of 6 features Visit Laminar

• Opik fits best

  Cost-conscious teams needing full-stack observability

• Laminar fits best

  Developers focused on deep trace investigation

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Side by side

Feature	Opik 9.1/10 Visit ↗	Laminar 8.7/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.1	8.7
Ranking	#4 in LLM Observability Tools	#8 in LLM Observability Tools
Best for	Cost-conscious teams needing full-stack observability	Developers focused on deep trace investigation
Pricing model	Free plan + paid	Free plan + paid
Starting price	$19/mo (best)	$30/mo
Free plan	✓	✓
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Email, Community, Docs	Email, Community, Docs
Compliance	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO/SAML	SOC 2, HIPAA
Integrations	40+ integrations	13 integrations
Built for	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Opik 6/6 · Laminar 6/6
LLM tracing	✓	✓
LLM evaluations	✓	✓
Prompt management	✓	✓
Agent tracing	✓	✓
Retrieval tracing	✓	✓
Token cost tracking	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment options	Both	Both
Our review
Pros	Free self-hosted and cloud options cover core observability needs Traces model calls, tools, retrieval steps, and agent actions Tracks evaluations, prompts, human feedback, tokens, and model costs	Traces LLM calls, tool calls, and sub-agent activity Combines failure signals, evaluations, prompt experiments, and SQL access Offers cloud and self-hosted deployment, including on-premise for Enterprise
Cons	Enterprise pricing is custom rather than published Self-hosted deployment requires your own infrastructure Its broad scope may exceed teams needing only basic tracing	Free retention is limited to 7 days Starter and Pro require monthly subscriptions Enterprise pricing and limits are custom
Our verdict	Opik is an open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform from Comet for teams building chatbots, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and multi-step agents. It records model calls, tool invocations, retrieval steps, and agent… Read the review →	Laminar is an open-source observability platform for AI agents and LLM applications. It captures LLM calls, tool calls, sub-agent activity, token usage, costs, and application traces in a transcript-style interface. Developers… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Opik — where it wins

  • Free self-hosted and cloud options cover core observability needs
  • Traces model calls, tools, retrieval steps, and agent actions
  • Tracks evaluations, prompts, human feedback, tokens, and model costs

  Where it doesn't

  • Enterprise pricing is custom rather than published
  • Self-hosted deployment requires your own infrastructure
  • Its broad scope may exceed teams needing only basic tracing

• Laminar — where it wins

  • Traces LLM calls, tool calls, and sub-agent activity
  • Combines failure signals, evaluations, prompt experiments, and SQL access
  • Offers cloud and self-hosted deployment, including on-premise for Enterprise

  Where it doesn't

  • Free retention is limited to 7 days
  • Starter and Pro require monthly subscriptions
  • Enterprise pricing and limits are custom

• Opik9.1/10 · Free plan

  A broad, cost-conscious stack for tracing, evaluation, prompts, monitoring, and agent debugging.

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• Laminar8.7/10 · Free plan

  A broad observability platform for tracing agents, costs, failures, and evaluations.

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