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Rollbar vs LangSmith

Continuous code improvement — real-time error tracking + AI triage
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Rollbar websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

Rollbar

Free
$0. 5,000 events/month. 1 user. 30-day retention. Basic alerts.
Free
Essentials
$21/mo (starting). 25K events/mo. Unlimited users. 30-day retention. Slack/Jira integrations.
$21/mo
Advanced
$79/mo (starting). 100K events/mo. Deployment tracking, RQL, AI triage. 180-day retention.
$79/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Starting ~$599/mo. 1M+ events. SSO, audit logs, HIPAA, priority support.
Custom
Rollbar 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 Rollbar vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricRollbarLangSmith
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Rollbar · 15 features

  • AlertsRule-based alerts to Slack/email/PagerDuty.
  • Custom EventsLog arbitrary events via API.
  • Deploy TrackingAnnotate errors with deploy SHAs.
  • Error TrackingCapture uncaught exceptions + crashes.
  • Intelligent GroupingFingerprint-based deduplication.
  • Notifiers60+ alert channels (Slack, Jira, Teams, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, etc.).
  • Person TrackingTie errors to end users.
  • Real User MonitoringBrowser performance + error correlation.
  • Rollbar AI TriageAI root-cause analysis + suggested fixes.
  • RQL QuerySQL-like error querying.
  • Session Replay (add-on)Video-like user session reconstruction.
  • Source MapsMinified JS → original.
  • Telemetry TimelineBreadcrumbs of events before crash.
  • WebhooksOutbound event streaming.
  • Workflow AutomationsAuto-assign owners, auto-close resolved items.

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

KindRollbarLangSmith
CLILangSmith CLI
SDKrollbar-go, rollbar.js (browser), rollbar (Node), rollbar-php, rollbar (Python), rollbar (Ruby)langsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTRollbar REST APILangSmith REST API
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERRollbar Dashboard, Rollbar WebhooksLangSmith Dashboard
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