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LangSmith

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LangSmith by LangChain is an AI agent and LLM observability platform offering tracing, real-time monitoring, evaluation, and production deployment. It supports Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs, plus tiered pricing from a free Developer plan to custom Enterprise.

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Pricing8 options

Developer plan: $0 / seat per month then pay as you go

up to 5k base traces / mo included

Plus plan: $39 / seat per month then pay as you go

up to 10k base traces / mo included

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Enterprise plan: Custom pricing then pay as you go

self-hosted and hybrid deployment opti

Usage metered via LCU (LangChain Compute Units) at $1.50 / LCU for work done & compute and

Platforms
LangSmith Platform
API accessNot public
FoundedLangChain the company started in early 2023
AvailabilityWeb / remote
LicenseOffers open source frameworks deepagents, langgraph, and langchain

Best suited to

Source-backed fit
Teams building and deploying AI agents Engineers debugging LLM and agent failures Organizations needing self-hosted agent observability Companies scaling agents across teams Developers using LangChain, LangGraph, or DeepAgents JavaScript/TypeScript developers were a growing audience, driven by…
Decision support

Common questions and adoption checks

6 sourced answers

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01What does LangSmith say it can do?

Complete AI agent and LLM observability platform with tracing and real-time monitoring · Debug agents, find failures fast, and track costs and latency · Message threading for multi-turn chat interactions · Cost tracking across agent operations

Complete AI agent and LLM observability platform with tracing and real-time monitoring.
02Who is LangSmith intended for?

JavaScript/TypeScript developers were a growing audience, driven by mainstream adoption of · Startups (LangSmith for Startups program) · Startups

the idea of using LLMs has gone mainstream. As such, we saw a massive increase in interest in LangChain from folks across the stack, many of whom prefer to using javascript.
03What use cases does LangSmith describe?

Speed up I/O-bound tasks such as LLM API calls and data store interactions · ChatLangChain documentation chatbot was recreated in TypeScript as a showcase. · Accelerating agent and agentic workflow development · Deferred nodes are ideal for map-reduce, consensus, and agent collaboration workflows.

speed up I/O-bound tasks
04What should teams verify before adopting LangSmith?

The TypeScript version has fewer implementations than the Python version because it is new · ML-centric functionality such as tokenizers and LLMs have worse TypeScript support than th

Since the Typescript version is much newer, there are fewer of these implementations in there.
05What pricing information is available for LangSmith?

Developer plan: $0 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 5k base traces / mo included · Plus plan: $39 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 10k base traces / mo included; u · Enterprise plan: Custom pricing then pay as you go; self-hosted and hybrid deployment opti · Usage metered via LCU (LangChain Compute Units) at $1.50 / LCU for work done & compute and

Developer For solo users getting started. $0 / seat per month then pay as you go Start for free Up to 5k base traces / mo, then pay-as-you-go Community support 1 seat
06Does LangSmith document API access?

Built-in APIs

built-in APIs, and autoscaling to handle enterprise-scale traffic
Decision guide

Capabilities and operating fit

AI infrastructure

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Common use cases

  • Tracing and monitoring LLM applications in real time
  • Debugging agent failures and tracking costs and latency
  • Running online LLM-as-judge and code evals
  • Monitoring tool and agent trajectories
  • Scoring and improving agent performance
  • Shipping and scaling agents in production

Access signals

Pricing model
Developer plan: $0 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 5k base traces / mo included · Plus plan: $39 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 10k base traces / mo included; u · Enterprise plan: Custom pricing then pay as you go; self-hosted and hybrid deployment opti · Usage metered via LCU (LangChain Compute Units) at $1.50 / LCU for work done & compute and
API
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Source links
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Official website

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[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
First-party description

LangSmith: Agent & LLM Observability Platform

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Source-supported facts

Complete AI agent and LLM observability platform with tracing and real-time monitoring · Debug agents, find failures fast, and track costs and latency · Integrates with any agent stack via Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Complete AI agent and LLM observability platform with tracing and real-time monitoring

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Debug agents, find failures fast, and track costs and latency

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Integration

Integrates with any agent stack via Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java SDKs

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Integration

Native tracing for popular agent frameworks and OpenTelemetry SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, and Java

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Message threading for multi-turn chat interactions

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
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Capability

Cost tracking across agent operations

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Online LLM-as-judge and code evals

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Tool and agent trajectory monitoring

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Integration

Webhook and PagerDuty alerts

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Deployment

Self-host SmithDB inside your VPC so sensitive traces never leave the environment

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

SmithDB purpose-built for agent observability with random access, full-text search, JSON key-path filtering, and trajectory queries

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Open source

Offers open source frameworks deepagents, langgraph, and langchain

[1]langchain.com/langsmith/observability
Capability

Agent Improvement Engine improves agents autonomously

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Capability

Observability service shows exactly what agents are doing

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Capability

Evaluation service scores and improves agent performance

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Capability

Agent Infrastructure Deployment ships and scales agents in production

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Capability

Sandboxes run agent-generated code safely

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Platform

LangSmith Platform encompasses Agent Improvement Engine, Observability, Evaluation, Agent Infrastructure Deployment, Sandboxes, and No-Code Agents

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Open source

Open Source Frameworks include deepagents (long-running agents), langgraph (low-level agent control), and langchain (quick start with any model provider)

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Pricing

Developer plan: $0 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 5k base traces / mo included; 1 seat; community support

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Pricing

Plus plan: $39 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 10k base traces / mo included; unlimited seats; access to Deployment, Engine, and more; 1 free Serverless (Small) deployment included

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Pricing

Enterprise plan: Custom pricing then pay as you go; self-hosted and hybrid deployment options; custom SSO and RBAC; Support SLA; custom seats and workspaces

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Pricing

Usage metered via LCU (LangChain Compute Units) at $1.50 / LCU for work done & compute and LSU (LangChain Storage Units) at $1.00 / LSU for traces & storage

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Deployment

Additional Serverless and Dedicated deployments available by size (Small, Medium, Large) and charged based on resources consumed

[4]langchain.com/pricing
Capability

Supports async operations with asyncio

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Capability

Run LLMs, chains, and agents concurrently

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Use case

Speed up I/O-bound tasks such as LLM API calls and data store interactions

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Integration

FastAPI

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Platform

LangSmith Platform

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Application type

Observability

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Application type

Evaluation

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Application type

Agent Infrastructure Deployment

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Open source

deepagents, langgraph, and langchain are open source frameworks

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Company

LangChain

[6]langchain.com/blog/async-api
Capability

LangChain supports TypeScript with native prompts, chains, and agents.

[2]langchain.com/blog/typescript-support
Capability

Python and TypeScript LangChain versions share a serializable format, enabling seamless artifact sharing between languages.

[2]langchain.com/blog/typescript-support
Capability

The TypeScript LangChain package includes abstractions for Prompts, LLMs, Text Splitters, Embeddings, Vectorstores, Chains, Agents, and Memory.

[2]langchain.com/blog/typescript-support
Practical capabilities

What it helps with

8 documented areas

A concise view of the jobs, capabilities and integrations described in the recorded product sources.

Use case

Tracing and monitoring LLM applications in real time

Use case

Debugging agent failures and tracking costs and latency

Use case

Running online LLM-as-judge and code evals

Use case

Monitoring tool and agent trajectories

Use case

Scoring and improving agent performance

Use case

Shipping and scaling agents in production

Use case

Running agent-generated code safely in sandboxes

Use case

Alerting via Webhooks and PagerDuty

Availability

Where it runs and where to get it

Source checked

Documented product formats, platforms and official distribution destinations. Availability can vary by region and plan.

Cost / license

Developer plan: $0 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 5k base traces / mo included · Plus plan: $39 / seat per month then pay as you go; up to 10k base traces / mo included; u · Enterprise plan: Custom pricing then pay as you go; self-hosted and hybrid deployment opti · Usage metered via LCU (LangChain Compute Units) at $1.50 / LCU for work done & compute andOffers open source frameworks deepagents, langgraph, and langchainOpen Source Frameworks include deepagents (long-running agents), langgraph (low-level agendeepagents, langgraph, and langchain are open source frameworksOffers open source frameworks deepagents, langgraph, and langchain · Open Source Frameworks include deepagents (long-running agents), langgraph (low-level agen · deepagents, langgraph, and langchain are open source frameworks

Application types

ObservabilityEvaluationAgent Infrastructure DeploymentNo-code agent fleet for whole company

Origin

Began as Harrison Chase's side project in late 2022

Platforms

LangSmith Platform encompasses Agent Improvement Engine, Observability, Evaluation, Agent LangSmith PlatformLangSmith Platform offers products including Observability, Evaluation, Agent InfrastructuLangGraph is available for both JavaScript and Python.LangSmith — independent commercial platform for AI observability
Implementation details

Adoption notes

DeploymentSelf-host SmithDB inside your VPC so sensitive traces never leave the environment · Additional Serverless and Dedicated deployments available by size (Small, Medium, Large) a · Self-hosted deployments can run entirely within AWS VPCs via Helm charts · 1-click deployments with autoscaling for enterprise-scale traffic
LicenseOffers open source frameworks deepagents, langgraph, and langchain · Open Source Frameworks include deepagents (long-running agents), langgraph (low-level agen · deepagents, langgraph, and langchain are open source frameworks
Model supportNot disclosed by source
Data controlProvides full visibility into LLM workflows without compromising on data privacy or contro
Learning curveIntermediate
Primary use casesTracing and monitoring LLM applications in real time, Debugging agent failures and tracking costs and latency, Running online LLM-as-judge and code evals, Monitoring tool and agent trajectories, Scoring and improving agent performance, Shipping and scaling agents in production, Running agent-generated code safely in sandboxes, Alerting via Webhooks and PagerDuty, Speed up I/O-bound tasks such as LLM API calls and data store interactions, ChatLangChain documentation chatbot was recreated in TypeScript as a showcase., Accelerating agent and agentic workflow development, Deferred nodes are ideal for map-reduce, consensus, and agent collaboration workflows., Pre model hooks are great for summarizing message history (controlling context bloat) and, Building needle-moving GenAI applications, Build gen AI apps from prototype through production, LangSmith Fleet provides no-code agents for the whole company

What to verify before adopting

  • The TypeScript version has fewer implementations than the Python version because it is new
  • ML-centric functionality such as tokenizers and LLMs have worse TypeScript support than th
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17 unique pages

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  1. 1langchain.com/langsmith/observability 17 facts · 1 answer · Official site
  2. 2langchain.com/blog/typescript-support 11 facts · 4 answers · Official site
  3. 3langchain.com/customers 12 facts · 2 answers · Official site
  4. 4langchain.com/pricing 12 facts · 2 answers · Pricing
  5. 5langchain.com/about 12 facts · Official site
  6. 6langchain.com/blog/async-api 10 facts · 2 answers · Documentation
  7. 7langchain.com/blog/aws-marketplace-july-2025-announce 11 facts · 1 answer · Official site
  8. 8langchain.com/blog/langgraph-release-week-recap 11 facts · 1 answer · Official site
  9. 9langchain.com/blog/chat-models 8 facts · Official site
  10. 10langchain.com/blog 1 answer · Official site
  11. 11langchain.com/privacy-policy 1 fact · Security
  12. 12langchain.com/blog/code-interpreter-api Documentation
  13. 13langchain.com/blog/langchain-documentation-refresh Documentation
  14. 14langchain.com/blog/llms-to-improve-documentation Documentation
  15. 15langchain.com/blog/our-docs-test-themselves Documentation
  16. 16langchain.com/blog/plan-and-execute-agents Official site
  17. 17langchain.com/support-plans Pricing
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