agentops vs RagaAI-Catalyst

RagaAI-Catalyst is much bigger: 16.2k stars against 5.8k. Over the days we have tracked them agentops moved +3.6% and RagaAI-Catalyst +0.5%, so agentops is growing faster right now.

RagaAI-Catalyst leads on noise control and customization. agentops does not take any axis by a clear margin.

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
5.8k
Tracked growth
+3.6%
Maturity
Last commit
75d ago
Language
Python
License
MIT
Cost to run
AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host

Combines agent/LLM tracing, evaluation, guardrails and red‑teaming with a self‑hosted dashboard and execution-timeline analytics for multi-agent debugging.

Stars
16.2k
Tracked growth
+0.5%
Maturity
Last commit
208d ago
Language
Python
License
Apache-2.0
Cost to run
Requires RagaAI account; external LLM usage billed to your provider.
0%+4%82 tracked days
AgentOps-AI/agentopsraga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst

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.

AxisagentopsRagaAI-Catalyst
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
Diff/file only
Noise control
How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only.
None mentioned
Configurable thresholds
Customization
How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config.
Config options
Custom rules & prompts
Privacy
Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only.
Self-hostable
Self-hostable
Model freedom
Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one.
Bring-your-own-key
Bring-your-key
Setup ease
What it takes to get a first useful run out of it.
API key + init
API key + config

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.

Runs in cli, web-app. Works with byok, openai, anthropic, other-fixed.

Pick RagaAI-Catalyst if…

Comprehensive observability — pick this when you need end-to-end tracing, evaluation and guardrails for agentic systems with an optional self-hosted dashboard and red‑teaming tools.

  • Noise control: Configurable thresholds (3/5 against 1/5)
  • Customization: Custom rules & prompts (5/5 against 3/5)
Runs in cli, web-app, ci. Works with byok.

What people want from each one

Questions people ask

Is agentops better than RagaAI-Catalyst?

RagaAI-Catalyst leads on noise control and customization. agentops does not take any axis by a clear margin. 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 RagaAI-Catalyst keeps my code private?

agentops: Self-hostable (4/5). RagaAI-Catalyst: Self-hostable (4/5).

What does each one cost to run?

agentops: AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host. RagaAI-Catalyst: Requires RagaAI account; external LLM usage billed to your provider..

Full profiles: AgentOps-AI/agentops and raga-ai-hub/RagaAI-Catalyst. Everything else in Observability & tracing.