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Hasura vs LangSmith

Instant GraphQL + REST on your data sources — with permissions
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Hasura websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

Hasura

OSS (Community)
Free forever (Apache-2.0). Self-host GraphQL Engine v2.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud Free
$0. 1 project. 60 req/min. Community support.
Free
Professional
$99/mo (starts). Usage-based compute + data pass-through. Production SLAs.
$99/mo
Advanced
Custom. Multi-region, dedicated, observability, SSO.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. On-prem / air-gap / advanced security.
Custom
Hasura website

LangSmith

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 5,000 traces/month. 14-day retention. 1 seat. Basic evaluations.
Free
Plus
$39/seat/month. 10k base traces included ($2.50 per 1k overage). Full evaluations, custom dashboards, email support.
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Self-host option, SSO, custom retention, dedicated support.
Custom
LangSmith website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Hasura vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricHasuraLangSmith
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Hasura · 14 features

  • ActionsCustom resolvers via HTTP.
  • Data Connector HubBuild connectors to any source.
  • Event TriggersDB changes → webhook.
  • GraphQL APIAuto GraphQL over relational + NoSQL.
  • Hasura DDN (v3)Multi-source supergraph with OpenDD.
  • JWT AuthPluggable JWT verification.
  • Metadata MigrationsGit-versioned Hasura config.
  • PermissionsRow + column + session-based.
  • Query CachingEdge caching with cache-control directive.
  • Remote SchemasMerge external GraphQL into supergraph.
  • REST EndpointsTurn any GraphQL op into REST.
  • Scheduled TriggersCron + one-off webhook triggers.
  • SubscriptionsLive queries via WS.
  • Webhook AuthCustom auth via webhook.

LangSmith · 14 features

  • AlertsThreshold alerts on latency, cost, eval metrics.
  • Annotation QueuesHuman-review workflows for trace quality rating.
  • Custom DashboardsAggregate metrics dashboards per project/tag.
  • DatasetsCollect examples → use as eval sets or training data.
  • EvaluationsLLM-as-judge, embedding similarity, custom Python evaluators, offline batch eval
  • LangChain IntegrationAuto-trace any LangChain/LangGraph run with env var.
  • LangGraph IntegrationFirst-class trace + eval for LangGraph agents.
  • LLM TracingAutomatic trace every LLM call + tool call + chain step.
  • OpenTelemetry ExportExport traces as OTLP to Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.
  • PlaygroundTest prompts + models inline before deploying.
  • Prompt CanvasVisual prompt editor with live test + eval.
  • Prompt HubPublic + private prompt library with versioning.
  • Self-Hosted (Enterprise)Docker + k8s deployment in your infra.
  • Threads + SessionsGroup traces into conversational sessions.

Developer interfaces

KindHasuraLangSmith
CLIddn CLI (v3), hasura CLILangSmith CLI
SDKlangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTHasura REST Endpoints, Metadata APILangSmith REST API
GRAPHQLHasura GraphQL Engine
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERData Connectors, Hasura ConsoleLangSmith Dashboard
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