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Galileo
Evaluation and observability platform for GenAI applications and agents
As of 29 August 2026, Galileo has a free plan and paid plans start at $100/month. Enterprise platform to evaluate, monitor, and protect generative AI applications and agents in production. Softwr lists it under AI. Galileo is available on Web, API.
Overview
What Galileo does
Galileo is a GenAI evaluation and observability platform that helps teams evaluate, monitor, and protect AI applications and agents at enterprise scale. It captures ground truth from synthetic, development, and production data, offers pre-built evaluations for RAG, agents, safety, and security, distills LLM-as-judge evaluators into compact models for cost-effective monitoring, and converts offline evaluations into production guardrails.
What people use it for
- Evaluating RAG and agent applications before production release
- Monitoring live GenAI applications for failures and drift
- Applying real-time guardrails without custom integration work
- Reducing evaluation costs using distilled Luna judge models
The honest half
Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Galileo.
- The free plan is limited to 5,000 traces per month, which is quickly outgrown by production workloads.
- Real-time guardrails and unlimited trace capacity are reserved for the custom-priced Enterprise tier.
- Pro plan pricing scales with trace volume, so costs can grow unpredictably as usage increases.
- On-premises deployment requires an Enterprise contract rather than being available self-serve.
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What people choose instead of Galileo
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- GalileovsPromptLayer
PromptLayer: PromptLayer offers prompt management alongside evaluation and observability for LLM applications.
Pricing
What Galileo costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Free
Free
- 5,000 traces/month
- Unlimited users
- Unlimited custom evaluations
Pro
$100 /mo
- 50,000 traces/month
- Standard role-based access control
- Advanced analytics and insights
- Dedicated Slack support
- 33% discount with annual billing
Enterprise
On request
- Unlimited trace capacity
- Custom rate limits
- Hosted, VPC, or on-prem deployment
- SSO and RBAC
- Real-time guardrails
- 24/7 support
Capabilities
Features
Pre-built evaluations
Provides 20+ ready-made evaluations for RAG, agents, safety, and security.
Ground truth capture
Captures ground truth from synthetic, development, and live production data.
Luna models
Distills LLM-as-judge evaluators into compact models for cheaper monitoring.
Agent behavior analysis
Identifies failure modes in agent behavior and prescribes fixes.
Production guardrails
Converts offline evaluations into live guardrails without custom integration code.
Flexible deployment
Supports SaaS, virtual private cloud, and on-premises deployment.
Answered, with sources
Questions people ask
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What does Galileo cost?
Galileo offers a free plan, a Pro plan at $100/month billed yearly (with a 33% annual discount), and a custom-priced Enterprise plan for unlimited trace capacity.
SourceIs there a free plan, and what are its limits?
The Free plan includes 5,000 traces per month with unlimited users and unlimited custom evaluations, aimed at developers and small teams experimenting with GenAI.
SourceHow is usage metered?
Galileo's pricing scales based on the number of traces processed each month, with Free capped at 5,000, Pro at 50,000, and Enterprise offering unlimited trace capacity.
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