Statsig vs LangSmith
Feature management + experimentation + analytics — ex-Facebook team
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain
Pricing tiers
Statsig
Developer (Free)
2M events/mo. Unlimited flag checks + configs. 50K session replays. 1-year retention. Unlimited seats.
Free
Pro
$150/month. 5M events included ($0.05 per 1K additional). Advanced experimentation + analytics. Unlimited retention.
$150/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Warehouse Native deploy. Outgoing data integrations. SSO, RBAC, HIPAA. Priority support.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing developer on Statsig vs developer on LangSmith.
| Metric | Statsig | LangSmith |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Statsig · 14 features
- Alerts — Metric threshold + anomaly alerts to Slack/PagerDuty.
- Autocapture — Zero-config click + pageview tracking.
- Dynamic Configs — JSON config with targeting — remote config.
- Experiments (A/B/n) — Full-factorial + sequential + holdouts. Bayesian + frequentist stats.
- Feature Gates — Boolean flags with targeting rules, gradual rollout, custom attributes.
- Layers — Mutually-exclusive experiment containers for traffic budget management.
- Metrics Catalog — Define reusable metrics with guardrails.
- Outgoing Data Sync — Sync events to warehouses. Enterprise.
- Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, segments, dashboards — integrated with flags.
- RBAC + SSO — Role-based access, SAML SSO. Enterprise.
- Segments / Audiences — Reusable targeting groups.
- Session Replay — DOM + network replays, 50K/mo free.
- Warehouse Native — Enterprise: run Statsig in your data warehouse (Snowflake/BQ/Databricks/Redshift…
- Web Analytics — Pageviews, sources, devices, Core Web Vitals.
LangSmith · 14 features
- Alerts — Threshold alerts on latency, cost, eval metrics.
- Annotation Queues — Human-review workflows for trace quality rating.
- Custom Dashboards — Aggregate metrics dashboards per project/tag.
- Datasets — Collect examples → use as eval sets or training data.
- Evaluations — LLM-as-judge, embedding similarity, custom Python evaluators, offline batch eval…
- LangChain Integration — Auto-trace any LangChain/LangGraph run with env var.
- LangGraph Integration — First-class trace + eval for LangGraph agents.
- LLM Tracing — Automatic trace every LLM call + tool call + chain step.
- OpenTelemetry Export — Export traces as OTLP to Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.
- Playground — Test prompts + models inline before deploying.
- Prompt Canvas — Visual prompt editor with live test + eval.
- Prompt Hub — Public + private prompt library with versioning.
- Self-Hosted (Enterprise) — Docker + k8s deployment in your infra.
- Threads + Sessions — Group traces into conversational sessions.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Statsig | LangSmith |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | LangSmith CLI |
| SDK | go-sdk, statsig-android, statsig-erlang, statsig-ios-client-sdk, statsig-java-server-sdk, statsig-js (browser), statsig-node-server-sdk, statsig-python-core | langsmith-js, langsmith-python |
| REST | Events Ingest API, Statsig Console API | LangSmith REST API |
| MCP | — | LangSmith MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks | LangSmith Dashboard |
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