Agentic Index
Braintrust vs Galileo (2026)
Choose Braintrust for hands on eval driven development with datasets and experiments, and choose Galileo for managed evaluation where vendor maintained judge models do the scoring. That verdict is the Agentic Index coverage score, graded from each vendor's own published materials.
Braintrust offers a free Starter and Pro at 249 dollars a month, while Galileo starts at 100 dollars a month billed yearly with a free tier. Galileo is now owned by Cisco, and its documentation says it became Splunk Agent Observability on 7 August 2026, while galileo.ai still sells the Galileo plans quoted here. Braintrust assumes your team writes and owns its evals; Galileo assumes you want research grade metrics maintained for you.
On the Agentic Index agent infrastructure ranking, Braintrust and Galileo both clear the bar: each documents all five production contract capabilities in full. 34 of the 186 vendors in the lane clear it. See the agent infrastructure ranking
This comparison is published by Agentic Index, an independent agentic AI vendor research platform. Braintrust and Galileo are each graded against the same 14 capability Agentic Index taxonomy, from the vendor's own public materials under the Agentic Index verification standard, alongside 956 researched vendors. No vendor pays for placement and no vendor has reviewed this page. How this evidence is graded
Choose Braintrust if
- Your team writes custom evals and wants best in class tooling around them
- Playground iteration against production traces is the core loop
- Unlimited seats with usage based billing suits a broad engineering rollout
Choose Galileo if
- Maintained metrics like context adherence and completeness replace eval authorship
- Inline guardrailing with low latency judges is part of the same purchase
- A 100 dollars a month annual entry undercuts your alternatives at small scale
| At a glance | Braintrust | Galileo |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Agent infrastructure | Agent infrastructure |
| Entry price | Free Starter (1 GB data, 10K scores) · Pro $249/mo | From $100/mo billed yearly · free tier |
| Free / trial | Free Starter plan, no card: 1 GB processed data, 10K scores a month, 14-day retention, unlimited users, $10 model credits a month. Qualifying startups can get 6 to 12 months of Pro free. | Free tier: 5,000 traces/month, unlimited users, unlimited custom evals, no card |
| Pricing confidence | public exact | public exact |
| Feature | B Braintrust |
G Galileo |
|---|---|---|
| Action & orchestration | ||
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Integrations & Tool Calling Ability to connect agents to real systems through native integrations, OAuth-authenticated actions, custom tools, APIs, webhooks, or MCP-compatible tools. |
Full / Explicit | Partial |
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Workflow Orchestration Ability to sequence, branch, retry, route, and combine deterministic workflow nodes with autonomous agent steps. |
Partial | No / Not documented |
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Triggers & Channel Coverage How agents wake up and where they work: schedules, webhooks, message events, CRM events, inbox events, chat, email, voice, and collaboration tools. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Knowledge & context | ||
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Knowledge Grounding & RAG Ability to ground agent behavior in company data through document ingestion, retrieval, external knowledge APIs, semantic search, or RAG layers. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
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Memory & State Persistence Ability to persist context across a run, conversation, workflow, user, team, or longer-term memory layer. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
| Control & trust | ||
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Human Oversight & Guardrails Approval steps, consent checkpoints, escalation rules, structured guardrails, policy constraints, and pause/resume controls. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Security, Identity & Governance RBAC, SSO, auditability, encryption, least-privilege tool access, compliance posture, and data handling policy. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Observability & Auditability Traces, logs, execution histories, metrics, audit events, and debugging detail for production agent behavior. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Deployment & Data Residency Deployment modes and options, including SaaS, dedicated cloud, VPC, on-prem, hybrid, local runtime, and self-hosting. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Solution readiness | ||
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Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Ready-made workflows, packaged employees, templates, blueprints, industry solutions, and role-specific agents that reduce time-to-value. |
Partial | Partial |
| Platform extensibility | ||
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Model Flexibility & Routing Ability to work across multiple foundation models, route tasks to different models, or let buyers bring their own providers and keys. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Composability layer: stable APIs, SDKs, MCP tool consumption/serving, custom tools, and integration into internal systems. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
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Testing, Debugging & Optimization Testing, debugging, scoring, retries, fallbacks, quality gates, and optimization loops for improving agent workflows before and after deployment. |
Full / Explicit | Full / Explicit |
| Specialist automation | ||
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Browser & Computer Use Browser, desktop, or remote/local computer control for workflows that cannot be handled through stable APIs alone. |
No / Not documented | No / Not documented |
Pricing snapshot
Sourced from the Index pricing dataset · open each vendor's profile for full detail.
| Pricing | B Braintrust |
G Galileo |
|---|---|---|
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Entry price Lowest public entry point |
Free Starter (1 GB data, 10K scores) · Pro $249/mo | From $100/mo billed yearly · free tier |
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Pricing confidence How public the numbers are |
Public, exact | Public, exact |
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Billing Primary billing axis |
usage | Monthly traces within subscription tiers; Pro pricing scales with trace volume |
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Variable cost Workload / overage exposure |
Medium variable cost | Medium variable cost |
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Free tier / trial Try before you buy |
Free tier
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Free tier
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Buying motion Self-serve vs sales call |
Mixed | Self-serve |
Galileo is owned by Cisco. Its documentation says it became Splunk Agent Observability on 7 August 2026 and points customers who joined after that date to Splunk's documentation. galileo.ai still sells the Galileo plans quoted on this page.
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