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PromptLayer

Prompt management and monitoring platform that logs every LLM API request, keeping a full history of prompts, responses, costs and latency, and supporting prompt versioning, A/B testing and analytics. It was one of the earliest LLM monitoring tools and focuses on the prompt lifecycle rather than full tracing. It is reached over an API key.

The client library is a separate artifact from the prompt registry, logging and evaluation services, which are hosted; the openness axis follows those. Verified 2026-08-13 via the MagnivOrg/prompt-layer-library repository.

Openness

1 high confidence

1.0

source: closed
license: Apache-2.0(OSI, client library MagnivOrg/prompt-layer-library only)
platform: proprietary-SaaS(API-key gated, hosted prompt registry/logging/evals)
self-host: no(managed only)

Open client SDK over a closed hosted backend (prompt CMS, logging, evals are SaaS), no OSS core, so 'closed' alongside the Braintrust/LangSmith pattern; the open library is instrumentation only.

https://github.com/MagnivOrg/prompt-layer-library recorded 2026-08-13
Repository page. GitHub resolves its LICENSE to Apache-2.0 (spdxId "Apache-2.0"), and the repository description is "PromptLayer - Maintain a log of your prompts and OpenAI API requests. Track, debug, and replay old completions." It is a client library; the registry, logging and eval services it talks to are not in it and are reached over promptlayer.com with an API key.

Adoption

3 medium confidence

3.0

The promptlayer package draws 254,412 PyPI downloads a month, inside the 100K-1M band. PromptLayer is recognized but lighter-weight than the deeper platforms - a no-code prompt CMS aimed at non-technical teams - and no harder user count is disclosed.

https://pypistats.org/packages/promptlayer recorded 2026-08-13
Downloads last month 254,412 for the promptlayer package (last week 45,074)

Capability

3 medium confidence

3.0

A strong prompt-lifecycle focus: a registry-based CMS with versioning, a visual no-code editor and A/B testing, plus request and response logging, basic evaluations over regression sets, and cost monitoring. Both the evaluation layer and the production observability are shallower than MLflow's or Langfuse's - no deep LLM-as-judge scoring and no broad OpenTelemetry or framework coverage - which places it a rung below those anchors, mid-tier at 3.

https://github.com/MagnivOrg/prompt-layer-library recorded 2026-08-13
Repository tagline - "PromptLayer - Maintain a log of your prompts and OpenAI API requests. Track, debug, and replay old completions." Prompt versioning and request logging are what the library offers; no tracing-platform, dataset or LLM-as-judge surface lives in it.

Verified 2026-08-13