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Kinde vs LangSmith

Flexible authentication, user management, and feature flags
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Kinde websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

Kinde

Free
10,500 MAU included. MFA, B2B orgs, custom domain, 2 custom roles, 1 webhook, 2 environments.
Free
Pro
Unlimited webhooks, roles, feature flags, API keys. Remove Kinde branding. SOC 2 attestation.
$25/mo
Plus
Unlimited enterprise SSO, API scopes, org-owned M2M apps, 6 environments.
$75/mo
Scale
11 environments, custom domain per org, SCIM, MFA triggers, 30-day audit logs.
$250/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Dedicated infra option, volume discounts, custom SLAs.
Custom
Kinde 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 Kinde vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricKindeLangSmith
custom roles2 roles
environments2 envs
feature flags10 flags
mau included10500 users/month
webhooks1 webhooks

Features

Kinde · 14 features

  • API ScopesOAuth scopes for your APIs, enforced server-side (Plus+).
  • B2B OrganizationsMulti-tenant orgs with user roles, invitations, feature flags per org.
  • Custom DomainHost auth at auth.yourbrand.com. Free tier includes this.
  • Enterprise SSOSAML 2.0 + OIDC enterprise connections (Plus unlimited).
  • Feature FlagsBuilt-in feature flags with per-user/org overrides. No separate service needed.
  • Kinde AIAI-assisted query and insights over your Kinde data.
  • Kinde Billing (preview)Built-in subscription billing linked to users/orgs. Stripe under the hood.
  • Machine-to-MachineClient credentials grant for service-to-service auth.
  • Multi-Factor AuthTOTP authenticator apps, SMS, email, passkey.
  • PasswordlessEmail code + passkey (WebAuthn).
  • Roles & PermissionsRBAC with roles → permissions. Assigned per user or per organization.
  • SCIM ProvisioningDirectory provisioning from IdPs (Scale tier).
  • Sign-in WidgetHosted pages + themeable widget for login/signup. Customizable with CSS.
  • WebhooksEvent webhooks: user.created/updated, organization events, MFA, etc.

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

KindKindeLangSmith
CLILangSmith CLI
SDKKinde Android / Kotlin, Kinde Flutter SDK, Kinde Go SDK, Kinde iOS / Swift, @kinde-oss/kinde-auth-nextjs, @kinde-oss/kinde-auth-react, @kinde-oss/kinde-nodejs-sdk, Kinde Python SDKlangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTKinde Management APILangSmith REST API
MCPKinde MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERLangSmith Dashboard
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