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Talha Anwar

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November 5, 2026

· Updated: November 7, 2026

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LangSmith is closed-source and restricts self-hosting to enterprise licenses , teams that run their own LLMOps stack and want to keep traces on their own servers need an alternative. To find the best fit, we set a baseline by tracing a small TypeScript agent (equipped with two tools) in LangSmith Cloud. Then, we ran the exact same agent through Langfuse, Arize Phoenix, Opik, and AcruxCore using each platform's recommended TypeScript setup.…