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WorkOS vs LangSmith

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

WorkOS websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

WorkOS

AuthKit Free
First 1M MAUs free. Unlimited organizations, user management, social OAuth, passwordless.
Free
AuthKit Scale
Per 1M additional MAUs.
$2500/mo
Enterprise / Annual Credits
Custom with 99.99% SLA, guided migration, dedicated support.
Custom
WorkOS 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 authkit-free on WorkOS vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricWorkOSLangSmith
mau included1000000 users/month
organizationsunlimited orgs
staging environmentsfree envs

Features

WorkOS · 13 features

  • Audit LogsStandardized audit log pipeline with streaming to SIEMs (Splunk, Datadog, Sumo L
  • AuthKitComplete drop-in user management UI + hosted auth flows. Built on top of WorkOS.
  • Directory SyncSCIM-based user provisioning/deprovisioning from Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspac
  • FGA (WorkOS)Fine-grained authorization based on Google Zanzibar / OpenFGA.
  • Magic AuthPasswordless email codes + links. Good alternative to password auth for B2B.
  • Multi-Factor AuthTOTP + SMS MFA enrollment and verification APIs.
  • OrganizationsMulti-tenant B2B primitive. Attach SSO/Directory/Audit to specific customer orgs
  • PasskeysWebAuthn passkeys as a first-class factor.
  • RadarFraud protection: device fingerprinting + risk scoring at signup and login.
  • Single Sign-OnPlug-and-play SAML 2.0 + OIDC SSO with 30+ identity providers pre-mapped.
  • User ManagementREST API + webhooks for user CRUD, email verification, sessions, MFA, metadata.
  • VaultSecret storage for tokens + per-tenant credentials.
  • WidgetsEmbeddable admin portals (SSO setup, directory mapping) that your customers self

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

KindWorkOSLangSmith
CLILangSmith CLI
SDKworkos-go, @workos-inc/authkit-nextjs, workos-java, workos-node, workos-php, workos-python, workos-rubylangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTWorkOS REST APILangSmith REST API
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERWebhooksLangSmith Dashboard
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