agentops vs agenttrail
agentops is much bigger: 5.9k stars against 922. Over the days we have tracked them agentops moved +3.1% and agenttrail +106.3%, so agenttrail is growing faster right now.
They split the axes: agentops leads on model freedom, agenttrail on context depth and setup ease.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
Provides end-to-end agent session replays, LLM cost tracking and debugging across many agent frameworks with minimal instrumentation.
- Stars
- 5.9k
- Tracked growth
- +3.1%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 117d ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host
Provides a local, real-time observability map of coding agents' plans, tool calls, and file edits without any cloud service, account, or telemetry.
- Stars
- 922
- Tracked growth
- +106.3%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 41d ago
- Language
- JavaScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Free, local
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | agentops | agenttrail |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Runtime tracing | ●●●●● Whole-repo analysis |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● None mentioned | ●●●●● Minimal signals |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Config options | ●●●●● Repo-level config |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Self-hostable | ●●●●● Fully local |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Bring-your-own-key | ●●●●● Multi-provider |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + init | ●●●●● One-command start |
Which one to pick
Pick agentops if…
Easy integration — one-line initialization (agentops.init) yields session replays, LLM call tracking, and cost analytics across multiple agent frameworks, with an option to self-host.
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own-key (5/5 against 3/5)
Pick agenttrail if…
Privacy-first — run with one command to get a local, read-only live dashboard of agent plans and file activity bound to 127.0.0.1 with no external telemetry.
- Context depth: Whole-repo analysis (5/5 against 1/5)
- Setup ease: One-command start (5/5 against 3/5)
What people want from each one
AgentOps-AI/agentops
sodiumsun/agenttrail
Questions people ask
Is agentops better than agenttrail?
They split the axes: agentops leads on model freedom, agenttrail on context depth and setup ease. agentops is worth picking when easy integration — one-line initialization (agentops.init) yields session replays, LLM call tracking, and cost analytics across multiple agent frameworks, with an option to self-host.
Which of agentops and agenttrail keeps my code private?
agentops: Self-hostable (4/5). agenttrail: Fully local (5/5).
What does each one cost to run?
agentops: AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host. agenttrail: Free, local.
Full profiles: AgentOps-AI/agentops and sodiumsun/agenttrail. Everything else in Observability & tracing.