Every free llm evaluation tier that clears our bar in 2026: 7 offers meet the criteria and 0 offers are demoted with a named reason. Our membership test: scores model or agent output against a dataset, a rubric or a judge model on runs you trigger. We could not confirm today's terms for 4 of them, and on all 4 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free LLM Evaluation Tools

Every free llm evaluation tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30. Our membership test: scores model or agent output against a dataset, a rubric or a judge model on runs you trigger.

7 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 83 ai / ml offers →
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Arize AX stable
Free

Platform for agent observability, evaluation and improvement. AX Free costs $0 with no credit card required: 25k trace spans per month, 1 GB ingestion per month, 15 days of retention, unlimited users and evals, 10 Signal issues per month, the Alyx agent and community support. AX Pro is $50 per month with 50k spans and 10 GB of ingestion per month and 30 days of retention. Arize also offers Phoenix, which is ELv2 licensed and can be self-hosted, and 2 Phoenix Cloud instances for free. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://arize.com/pricing, where it says: “Trace, evaluate, and improve your agents”. How we use this

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Keywords AI stable
Free

Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2 evaluators, 5 prompts. No credit card required.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-02 from https://www.respan.ai, where it says: “Route, observe, and evaluate every LLM call”. How we use this

3
Braintrust stable
Free

Evals, prompt playground, and data management for Gen AI. Starter plan (free): 1 GB processed data/month, 10k scores/month, 14 days data retention. Unlimited users, projects, datasets, playgrounds, and experiments. Overage: $4/GB data, $2.50 per 1k scores. Best for unlimited usage needs.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.braintrust.dev/pricing, where it says: “Transparent pricing for AI evaluation, monitoring, and observability”. How we use this

4
Free

Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluating and debugging AI applications. The Langfuse Cloud Hobby plan is free with no credit card: 50k units a month (each trace, observation and score counts as one unit), 30 days of data access, 2 users, community support via GitHub, and all platform features with limits. Core is $29/month with 100k units, then $8 per 100k units up to 1M units and less above that. The open-source self-hosted edition is free under the MIT license. Best for personal projects. When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-13, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://langfuse.com/, where it says: “Evaluation LLM-as-a-judge, heuristic functions, or human review. Run evaluators on production data or during experiments.”. How we use this

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Free

Comet makes Opik, for LLM and agent observability and evaluation, and an MLOps platform for ML experiment tracking. Opik is open source and free to self-host. Opik Free Cloud allows up to 10 team members, 25k spans per month and 60-day data retention, with agent tracing and analysis, test suites and assertions, and Agent Playground. MLOps Free covers 1 platform user, with experiment tracking, dataset management and versioning, Model Registry and 100GB of data storage. Academics can apply for a free Pro plan. Best for open source projects. Note — 2026-04-14: Between 2026-03-23 and 2026-04-14, Comet cut the team members allowed on Opik Free Cloud from unlimited to 10. Source ↗

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.comet.com/site/pricing/, where it says: “Systematically test your AI application over an entire dataset”. How we use this

Recorded, but does not affect rank:
  • effective 2026-04-14 — limits reduced: Between 2026-03-23 and 2026-04-14, Comet cut the team members allowed on Opik Free Cloud from unlimited to 10. Source ↗
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Free

LLM observability and evaluation platform by LangChain — Developer plan is $0/seat/month with up to 5k base traces/month, then pay-as-you-go. LCU is $1.50/unit and LSU is $1.00/unit. Plus plan is $39/seat/month with up to 10k base traces/month, then pay-as-you-go. Note — discovered 2026-09-01: The free tier now includes pay-as-you-go pricing for traces beyond 5k/month, and introduces LCUs and LSUs for additional costs related to compute and storage. Source ↗

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://www.langchain.com/pricing, where it says: “Evaluation Score and improve agent performance”. How we use this

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Free

A LLMOps platform helping AI teams measure, monitor, and optimize LLM applications for reliability, cost-efficiency, and performance. With a powerful DSPy component, we enable seamless collaboration between engineers and non-technical teams to fine-tune and productionize GenAI products. Free plan includes all platform features, 1k traces/month and 1 workflow DSPy optimizers. [#opensource](https://github.com/langwatch/langwatch). When we last read the page we cite for this offer, on 2026-09-14, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

Listed in AI / ML, and on this page because we labelled it llm_evaluation. We read that on 2026-09-01 from https://langwatch.ai, where it says: “AI agent testing and evaluation that turns unpredictable agents into reliable production systems”. How we use this

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

Nothing on this page is demoted today — we hold no disqualifying record against any of these offers.

Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:llm_evaluation
seed
7909225e6682b60be2a70386b2dc7c07a0e902742f88b950ebbfb29018c9da4f
tie_count
7

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
Arize AX Free Platform for agent observability, evaluation and improvement. AX Free costs $0 with no credit card required: 25k trace s... stable 2026-09-22
Keywords AI Free Rebranded to Respan; keywordsai.co redirects to respan.ai. Free plan: full platform, 100k logs, 1k scores, 5 datasets, 2... stable 2026-09-18
Braintrust Free Evals, prompt playground, and data management for Gen AI. Starter plan (free): 1 GB processed data/month, 10k scores/mon...
read found the page different · 2026-09-21
stable 2026-09-21 / 2026-08-20
Langfuse Free Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluating and debugging AI applications. The Langfuse Cloud Hobby pla... not published
read not reconciled · 2026-09-13
2026-09-13 / 2026-09-01
Comet ML Free Comet makes Opik, for LLM and agent observability and evaluation, and an MLOps platform for ML experiment tracking. Opik... watch
effective 2026-04-14
2026-09-21 / 2026-07-31
LangSmith Free LLM observability and evaluation platform by LangChain — Developer plan is $0/seat/month with up to 5k base traces/month...
read found the page different · 2026-09-13
watch
discovered 2026-09-01 · effective date unknown
2026-09-13 / 2026-08-08
LangWatch Free A LLMOps platform helping AI teams measure, monitor, and optimize LLM applications for reliability, cost-efficiency, and... not published
read not reconciled · 2026-09-14
2026-09-14 / 2026-08-10

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free llm evaluation tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 7 free llm evaluation offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free llm evaluation tiers have held their terms?

7 offers meet our criteria on this page. Of those, 3 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 2 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 2. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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