Braintrust

Braintrust is an AI observability platform designed to help teams ship quality AI agents at scale. It allows users to inspect agent traces in real time, measure quality with evaluations, and identify issues early. The platform focuses on the unique challenges of monitoring and fixing AI agents, which can drift and regress silently. Braintrust aims to provide a comprehensive solution for the entire team, from engineering to product.

The platform offers features for observability, including scalable agent trace ingestion, live performance monitoring, and custom views. For evaluations, it supports fast prompt engineering, flexible datasets, and automated or human scoring. Discovery tools help users understand agent behavior, identify patterns, and diagnose failures from traces. Braintrust also includes AI-powered tools like Loop Agent for optimizing prompts and scorers, and Pattern Automations to identify recurring issues.

Braintrust uses Brainstore, a database optimized for AI data, featuring the Nitro query engine for faster investigations. It emphasizes security and compliance, being SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and offering HIPAA compliance, SSO, RBAC, and hybrid deployment options.

• Best for
  • Teams developing and deploying AI agents in production.
  • Engineers needing to inspect and debug agent traces.
  • Product managers defining and measuring AI agent quality.
  • Organizations requiring robust security and compliance for AI systems.
  • Teams looking to automate the discovery of patterns and issues in AI agent behavior.
  • Developers seeking to turn production traces into evaluation datasets for regression testing.

Frequently asked questions

What types of AI agents does Braintrust support?

Braintrust is framework agnostic and works with any stack. It provides native SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Ruby, C#, and more, allowing users to trace production agents with minimal setup.

How does Braintrust help with AI agent quality?

It helps by allowing users to define what "good" looks like through evaluations, run experiments, compare prompts and models, and score outputs using LLMs, code, or humans. It also helps catch issues early by blocking bad releases.

Is Braintrust secure and compliant?

Yes, Braintrust is SOC 2 Type II certified, GDPR compliant, and offers HIPAA compliance. It also supports SSO/SAML, granular permissions, and hybrid deployment options.

Can Braintrust integrate with existing development workflows?

Braintrust offers an MCP server that connects a coding agent to the AI stack, allowing users to query logs, run evals, and update prompts directly from their IDE.

What is Brainstore?

Brainstore is a database built by Braintrust specifically for AI data at scale. It features the Nitro query engine, which is designed for faster investigations and searching across long prompts, model responses, and tool calls.

Alternatives

• GitHub Copilot – Pick this for an AI assistant focused on coding across various editors and the command line, rather than AI agent observability.