Updated March 10, 2026
DeepEval is an open-source LLM evaluation framework built for unit testing AI outputs. It provides 14+ evaluation metrics including hallucination detection, answer relevancy, and contextual recall. Integrates with pytest, supports custom metrics, and works with any LLM provider for automated quality assurance in CI/CD pipelines.
Portkey provides LLM observability alongside its gateway capabilities, offering detailed logging, metrics, and tracing for LLM API calls. Teams can monitor latency, costs, token usage, and error rates across providers, with request-level debugging and analytics dashboards for production AI applications.
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Respan lets you trace LLM and agent calls across any model or framework, A/B test prompts on production traffic, and route requests across 500+ models through one gateway.