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Opik

Comet ML
open source / Overall score: 4.0(strong)

Platform for debugging, evaluating and monitoring LLM applications, RAG systems and agentic workflows, providing tracing, automated evaluations and production dashboards. Built by Comet ML, its server, web application and evaluation components run on self-managed infrastructure, with Comet's cloud offered as optional managed hosting.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
commercial
Comet-cloud-hosting(not a gated core)
core features withheld
no

Opik's server, web application and evaluation components are Apache-2.0 licensed, and the README says the full platform can be self-hosted with no Enterprise sales conversation required. Comet's self-hosting overview says a self-hosted install includes all Opik features, including tracing and evaluation, but not user management.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

Adoption is measured by PyPI downloads of the opik package, which ships more than 60 framework integrations for tracing and evaluation. The repository README discloses no trace-volume figure, so the reading is based on the download count alone, corroborated by GitHub stars on the repository.

Capability

4 high confidence
4.0

Opik covers OpenTelemetry-native tracing across many framework integrations, datasets and experiments with pytest-driven CI, LLM-as-judge metrics for hallucination, moderation, relevance and context precision, a prompt playground, and cost tracking. That matches the feature sets of Langfuse and MLflow, while Arize AX, a closed platform, goes further.

  • https://github.com/comet-ml/opik recorded 2026-08-13

    README sections - "Track all LLM calls and traces with detailed context during development and in production", LLM-as-a-judge scoring, "Annotate traces and spans with feedback scores", datasets and "Extensive 3rd-party integrations for easy observability".

  • https://pypi.org/project/opik/ recorded 2026-09-29

    PyPI page for opik: "any language with an OpenTelemetry SDK" can send traces to Opik, and evaluations integrate into CI/CD through PyTest.

  • https://www.comet.com/docs/opik/ recorded 2026-09-29

    Docs home: "Deploy on your own infrastructure with Docker locally or Kubernetes at scale." and the navigation lists Cost tracking among the logging topics.

Verified 2026-09-24, except some scores, still awaiting re-confirmation