Confident AI vs Galileo (2026)

Native integrations post notifications to Slack and Discord through OAuth, to Microsoft Teams by webhook, and to PagerDuty and email, and let a person open Linear or GitHub Issues tickets from a trace. AI Connections call the customer's own AI endpoint to run evaluations, and connected MCP servers supply tool definitions so tool calls can be scored. These bring data in and send events out for the platform, and none connects an agent to a real system to read, write or take actions there.

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Tracing integrations cover A2A, CrewAI, Google ADK, LangChain and LangGraph, Mastra, Microsoft Agent Framework, the OpenAI SDKs, Pydantic AI, Strands and the Vercel AI SDK, and Galileo connects model providers for its metrics. These bring telemetry in. There are no connectors that let an agent take authenticated actions in outside systems.

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Trace Workflows shows the pipeline that runs after a trace arrives (dataset ingestion, queue ingestion, evaluation rules and classifiers) as a graph, and the tracing SDKs record agent spans from the customer's own orchestration. There are no workflows that sequence, branch or retry steps, or combine deterministic nodes with agent steps.

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Agents that run elsewhere are what Galileo observes, evaluates and guards. There are no workflows that sequence, branch or retry an agent's steps.

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Online evaluations run server-side on each trace and span as it is ingested, evaluation rules and ingestion tasks act on incoming data automatically, threshold alerts run on a recurring schedule and notify Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty or email, datasets can be evaluated on a schedule, and governance assessments run daily. All of it starts on an incoming event or a schedule, with no person asking.

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Luna-2 models evaluate all production traffic as it arrives, log stream metrics score incoming traces, Signals detect failures proactively, and real-time monitoring raises alerts, so Galileo's evaluation work starts from incoming telemetry with no person initiating each run.

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Retrieval metrics such as contextual precision, contextual recall and faithfulness score the customer's own retrieval pipeline, retriever spans record the chunks that pipeline returned, and data source connectors feed documents into synthetic dataset generation. There is no index, retrieval layer or knowledge API that grounds an agent's behavior in company data.

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Galileo evaluates the grounding of RAG systems built elsewhere with context adherence and RAG metrics. It has no retrieval structure over the customer's knowledge that grounds an agent's answers.

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Traces, threads and versioned datasets persist as observability and test records of what the customer's app did, and multi-turn metrics check whether that app retained knowledge across a conversation. There is no session, conversation, workflow or long term memory that an agent reads and writes.

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Traces, sessions and datasets are kept for observability and evaluation, but there is no session, conversation or long-term memory that an agent reads back as context.

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AI Governance, an Enterprise feature, groups controls into policies that are assessed daily and can block a release in CI/CD unless every control above Low importance passes, and each control resolves to a status that shows why it failed.

Annotation queues, fed automatically by queue ingestion tasks, custom annotation forms and end user feedback put people in the review loop on traces and threads. That gives a policy checkpoint on releases and a place for human review.

There is no approval step or guardrail that holds or blocks an agent's own action in production, and no control to pause and resume a run.

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Evaluations become production guardrails through Agent Control, which applies inline runtime protection to agent requests and responses, while Luna-2 models run the checks at low latency across all traffic. Together they apply structured guardrails and policy constraints at run time.

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Self serve SAML SSO works with Okta, Azure AD and Google Workspace. Custom roles, policies and permissions apply at organization and project level, with all data separated by project, project and organization audit logs record every API and user action by user or API key, retention periods are configurable, and data is encrypted at rest and in transit. Confident AI states SOC 2 Type II compliance and HIPAA compliance with BAAs available, and says customer data is never used for training.

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Galileo reports SOC 2 Type 2 certification, and its plans include project access control, with standard RBAC on Pro and RBAC with SSO integration on Enterprise.

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Tracing records traces, spans and threads, with typed spans for LLM calls, retrievers (the chunks returned), tools (which tool ran, with what arguments and what it returned) and agent runs that roll the nested steps up, plus logged prompts, token usage and cost. Project and organization audit logs record every API and user action separately from traces, traces export as CSV on demand or on a schedule to S3, trace forwarding sends every ingested trace to the customer's own OpenTelemetry collector, and retention periods are set per project or inherited from the organization.

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Every agent step is captured in end to end traces, with agent graph visualization, sessions and distributed tracing over OpenTelemetry. Real time monitoring raises alerts, Signals detect failure patterns automatically, and the SDKs carry a logger, decorators and context helpers. Together that shows step by step what the agent did.

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The managed cloud stores and processes data in the United States by default or in the European Union when chosen at signup, regions are listed in the US, EU, UK, Japan, Canada and Australia, and further residency is available on request. On Enterprise, self hosting runs the whole platform inside the customer's own AWS, GCP or Azure account from a published Terraform module and Helm chart in an existing VPC or VNet, with guides for scaling, disaster recovery and air gapped networks.

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On the Enterprise plan, Galileo deploys hosted, in the customer's VPC or on premises. SaaS, on-premises and in-VPC deployment are all offered.

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Four official agent skills (confident-client, deepeval, confident-tracing and confident-otel) teach a coding agent to build eval suites, instrument an app and administer the account, and ship as plugins ready to install for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex. Red teaming assessments come preset to OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF. These are packaged, editable starting points, and there are no ready made agents, packaged employees or deployable workflows.

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One AI Assistant inside the app, in beta, ships with sample projects to start from, alongside Galileo's evaluator library. There is no set of prebuilt agents or templates for a customer to select from.

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Each project chooses the provider and model behind its LLM as a judge metrics, using the customer's own keys for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral or Perplexity, Amazon Bedrock or Vertex AI, or the Portkey and LiteLLM gateways. Keys are configured once at organization level and inherited by projects that opt in, or set per project, and without customer keys Confident AI's managed defaults apply. Model choice stays with the customer's admins, on their own providers and keys.

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Model integrations connect the customer's LLM providers, with costs per model, and Galileo's LLM-as-a-judge metrics and playground experiments run on them beside its own Luna-2 models. The customer chooses the models behind Galileo's own evaluation features.

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A REST API covers datasets, test runs, traces, prompts, annotations, dashboards, governance policies and organization administration, with project and organization API keys that can be rotated and revoked. DeepEval is the open source Python SDK and confident-trace provides Python and TypeScript tracing SDKs, with OpenTelemetry ingestion from any language. Confident AI serves its own MCP server with OAuth dynamic registration for coding agents, publishes official agent skills and plugins, and fits CI through pytest and pull and merge request eval gates for GitHub and GitLab.

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Galileo offers a Python SDK, a TypeScript SDK, a REST API with a reference covering authentication and endpoints, and a Galileo MCP server for AI-enabled IDEs such as Cursor and VS Code.

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DeepEval and Confident AI test AI apps against versioned datasets of goldens with single turn and multi turn metrics, custom G-Eval and code based metrics, and simulated multi turn conversations. Evals run as pytest unit tests in CI/CD with pass or fail thresholds, and the PR Eval Gate runs the app over a pinned dataset on every pull request and posts a passing or failing GitHub check. Online evaluations score production traces as they arrive, metric scores can be aligned against human labels, and production traces are curated back into datasets.

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Galileo ships more than 20 out-of-the-box evals for RAG, agents, safety and security plus custom evaluators, LLM-as-a-judge metrics tuned from live feedback with Autotune and distilled into Luna-2 models that score all production traffic, and experiments run in code, playgrounds or unit tests against datasets with side-by-side comparison and annotations. That tests the customer's agent before production and scores quality over time.

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The product covers evaluation, tracing, human review, red teaming, governance, settings and self hosting, and does not control a browser, desktop or computer.

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There is no browser, desktop or computer control by an agent. Galileo observes, evaluates and guards agents.

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