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Collaboration platform for prompt management, evaluation, and observability
Overview
PromptLayer is an AI engineering platform that combines a prompt registry, visual CMS, LLM evaluations, observability, and agent tracing. It lets teams version, test, and deploy prompts without redeploying applications, connects production traces back to prompt versions, and runs dataset-backed evaluations with human review before shipping changes.
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Helicone: Helicone provides similar open-source LLM observability and gateway functionality.
Pricing
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Free
Free
Pro
$49 /mo
Team
$500 /mo
Enterprise
On request
Capabilities
Visual prompt management
Edit, version, test, and deploy prompts without redeploying the application.
Agent observability
Connects production traces to specific prompt versions to inspect failures and cost.
Evaluations
Runs dataset-backed tests with human review and automated graders before deployment.
Version control
Keeps immutable history, diffs, release labels, and rollback for prompts.
Cost and latency monitoring
Tracks cost and latency trends by feature and model.
Agent workflow tracing
Builds and traces multi-step agent operations in one workspace.
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PromptLayer has a free plan, a Pro plan at $49/month, a Team plan at $500/month, and custom Enterprise pricing, with additional usage billed per transaction beyond plan limits.
SourceThe Free plan includes 5 users, 2,500 requests per month, 1 workspace, 250 monthly eval cell executions, and datasets up to 10MB.
SourceAdditional usage is charged per transaction for requests, agent runs, and evaluation cell runs, at $0.003/transaction on Pro and $0.002/transaction on Team.
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