agentops vs Tracely-ai

agentops is much bigger: 5.8k stars against 1.2k. Over the days we have tracked them agentops moved +3.8% and Tracely-ai +18.6%, so Tracely-ai is growing faster right now.

Tracely-ai leads on noise control and setup ease. 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
+3.8%
Maturity
Last commit
72d ago
Language
Python
License
MIT
Cost to run
AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host

Promotes real failing production traces into hermetic, replayable regression cases that run offline in CI and block PRs, instead of relying on hand-authored datasets.

Stars
1.2k
Tracked growth
+18.6%
Maturity
Last commit
5h ago
Language
Python
License
MIT
Cost to run
CI replay $0; live judges use your model API key.
0%+19%82 tracked days
AgentOps-AI/agentopsJwuthri/Tracely-ai

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.

AxisagentopsTracely-ai
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
Per-run only
Noise control
How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only.
None mentioned
Clustering & gating
Customization
How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config.
Config options
Rich rule & 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
One-command demo

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 Tracely-ai if…

Production-driven tests — pick Tracely when you want failing runs promoted from real traces into deterministic, offline regression cases that gate PRs.

  • Noise control: Clustering & gating (4/5 against 1/5)
  • Setup ease: One-command demo (5/5 against 3/5)
Runs in github-action, ci, cli, web-app. Works with byok, openai, anthropic.

What people want from each one

Questions people ask

Is agentops better than Tracely-ai?

Tracely-ai leads on noise control and setup ease. 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 Tracely-ai keeps my code private?

agentops: Self-hostable (4/5). Tracely-ai: Self-hostable (4/5).

What does each one cost to run?

agentops: AgentOps API key for hosted dashboard; can self-host. Tracely-ai: CI replay $0; live judges use your model API key..

Full profiles: AgentOps-AI/agentops and Jwuthri/Tracely-ai. Everything else in Observability & tracing.