Confident AI
Also known as: DeepEval
LLM evaluation and observability platform from the creators of DeepEval, with 50+ open source metrics for testing agents, RAG, and chatbots.
Confident AI is an AI quality platform for evaluating, monitoring and governing LLM applications and agents, built by the team behind DeepEval, its open source evaluation framework, and DeepTeam, its open source red teaming framework. DeepEval runs research-backed single-turn and multi-turn metrics, custom G-Eval and code-based metrics, and simulated multi-turn conversations as pytest tests locally or in CI/CD. Confident AI adds versioned datasets of goldens, no-code evaluation of live AI endpoints, regression testing across test runs, git-style prompt versioning, and a pull request eval gate for GitHub and GitLab.
In production, the confident-trace SDKs and OpenTelemetry record traces, spans and threads, including tool calls, retrieved chunks, token usage and cost, and online evaluations score traffic as it arrives. Threshold alerts notify Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty or email, annotation queues route traces to human reviewers, and production traces can be curated into test datasets.
Red teaming assesses apps against frameworks such as OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and NIST AI RMF, and AI Governance, an Enterprise feature, turns requirements into policies of controls that are assessed daily and can gate deployments. Coding agents connect through its MCP server and official agent skills and plugins.
Confident AI states SOC 2 Type II compliance and offers HIPAA BAAs, SAML SSO, custom roles and permissions, project-level data separation, audit logs and configurable retention. The managed cloud runs in the United States or the European Union, with further regions available, and Enterprise customers can self-host the whole platform in their own AWS, GCP or Azure account. Pricing is public: DeepEval is free and open source, a Free plan covers two seats and one project, Starter is $200 a month and Team $2,000 a month, each with trace data at $1 per GB-month beyond the included amount plus per-token charges that vary by model, and Enterprise is custom.
Vendor details
Canonical URL
https://www.confident-ai.com
Category
Agent infrastructure
Subcategory
Evaluation and observability
Funding status
Founded 2024 by Jeffrey Ip (CEO) and Kritin Vongthongsri in San Francisco. Raised a $2.0M seed round in 2025. Builds the widely adopted open source DeepEval framework alongside the Confident AI cloud platform. Remains independent.
Company status
independent
Use cases & customers
Primary use cases
Target customers
Deployment options
Integrations
Model and framework agnostic. DeepEval plugs into OpenAI, OpenAI Agents, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, and Pydantic AI, runs in pytest and CI/CD, and emits OpenTelemetry. Confident AI adds an MCP server for running evals and pulling datasets from Cursor or Claude Code, plus no code HTTP based connections.
In practice
Your team keeps shipping prompt changes that quietly break edge cases. You write DeepEval tests in CI, and Confident AI flags the exact cases that regressed against your last good baseline before merge.
Your product managers want to test prompts but every eval cycle waits on an engineer. They run evaluations and tweak prompts themselves through a no code connection, while engineers keep owning the pipeline.
You need to prove your chatbot is safe before a regulated launch. You simulate thousands of multi turn conversations, run red teaming, and export a PDF assessment report for stakeholders.
Sources & related URLs
Related / legacy domains
Agentic Index coverage score
8.5 / 14 capabilities · 61%
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Native integrations post notifications to Slack and Discord through OAuth, to Microsoft Teams by webhook, to PagerDuty and to 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; none connects an agent to a real system to read, write or take actions there. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs project integrations, ai-connections and mcp-serversread 2026-09-21 |
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| Workflow Orchestration | Unable to verify |
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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. No workflows that sequence, branch or retry steps, or combine deterministic nodes with agent steps, are documented. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs llm-tracing workflows and span-typesread 2026-09-21 |
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| Knowledge Grounding & RAG | Unable to verify |
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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. No index, retrieval layer or knowledge API that grounds an agent's behavior in company data is documented. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs metrics, span-types and data-source-connectorsread 2026-09-21 |
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| Human Oversight & Guardrails | Partial |
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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 human review surface. No approval step or guardrail that holds or blocks an agent's own action in production is documented, and neither is a control to pause and resume a run. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs ai-governance, human-in-the-loop and threat-detectionread 2026-09-21 |
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| Security, Identity & Governance | Full |
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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; data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The homepage states SOC 2 Type II compliance and that customer data is never used for training, and the data handling page states SOC II and HIPAA compliance with BAAs available. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs sso, rbac, audit-logs and data-handling, and confident-ai.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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| Observability & Auditability | Full |
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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. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs span-types, exports, trace-forwarding, audit-logs and data-retentionread 2026-09-21 |
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| Memory & State Persistence | Unable to verify |
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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. No session, conversation, workflow or long-term memory that an agent reads and writes is documented. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs threads, dataset management and multi-turn metricsread 2026-09-21 |
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| Deployment & Data Residency | Full |
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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, the homepage lists regions 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. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs self-hosting and data-residency, and confident-ai.com homepageread 2026-09-21 |
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| Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs | Partial |
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Confident AI publishes four official agent skills (confident-client, deepeval, confident-tracing and confident-otel) that teach a coding agent to build eval suites, instrument an app and administer the account, and ships them as ready-to-install plugins 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; no ready made agents, packaged employees or deployable workflows are documented. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs coding-agents skills and plugins, and confident-ai.com/llms.txtread 2026-09-21 |
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| Triggers & Channel Coverage | Full |
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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. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs online-evals, workflows, alerts and ai-governance, and confident-ai.com/pricingread 2026-09-21 |
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| Model Flexibility & Routing | Full |
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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, configured once at organization level and inherited by projects that opt in, or set per project; without customer keys, Confident-managed defaults apply. Model choice stays with the customer's admins, on their own providers and keys. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs evaluation-models and organization model-credentialsread 2026-09-21 |
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| APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility | Full |
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A documented 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. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs api-reference, coding-agents/mcp, integrations and pr-eval-gate, and confident-ai.com/llms.txtread 2026-09-21 |
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| Testing, Debugging & Optimization | Full |
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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. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs llm-evaluation, unit-testing-cicd, pr-eval-gate and online-evalsread 2026-09-21 |
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| Browser & Computer Use | Unable to verify |
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The Confident AI documentation covers evaluation, tracing, human review, red teaming, governance, settings and self-hosting, and no browser, desktop or computer control is documented. SourceConfident AI, confident-ai.com/docs and llms-full.txtread 2026-09-21 |
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The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Unable to verify against the same 14 buyer facing capabilities, from public evidence only. Each capability links to how all vendors in the index score on it. How this evidence is graded
Recent platform changes
Teams can now build metrics in Confident AI that judge an agent's whole trajectory, not just its final answer. Every metric also gained a mode setting, so a lighter decision model can answer narrow yes or no checks where a full LLM verdict is more than needed.
Bears on: Observability / auditability
View sourceConfident AI launched Voice AI Evals with caller simulations covering interruptions, background noise, and turn patterns. Seven deterministic audio metrics assess naturalness, intelligibility, consistency, turn taking, responsiveness, audio integrity, and reliability alongside existing conversation evaluations. Supported connections include SIP, phone calls, WebRTC, WebSockets, and LiveKit integrations.
Bears on: Observability / auditability
View sourceConfident AI introduced alert priorities with integration filtering, new Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and code vulnerability scanning for red teaming. The update also graduates report templates to general availability, adds JSONL trace exports, logs endpoints for LLM spans, and allows organizations to restrict model providers.
Bears on: Observability / auditability
View sourcePricing
From $200/mo · free plan + open source
Monthly plan fee with unlimited seats on paid plans, plus $1 per GB-month of trace data ingested or retained beyond the included amount and per-token charges that vary by model
Included quota
Free tier includes 2 seats, 1 project, and 1 GB-month of data, with unlimited traces. Paid seats are $19.99 each per month and data is $1 per GB-month. Unlimited traces on all plans.
What is public
Confident AI publishes self serve pricing: DeepEval is free and open source, a Confident AI free tier covers small use, paid seats are $19.99 per month, and data is $1 per GB-month with unlimited traces on all plans.
Billing mechanics
Billing is per seat per month plus a usage charge of $1 per GB-month for data ingested or retained. The free tier includes 2 seats, 1 project, and 1 GB-month. Traces are unlimited on every plan, so cost is driven by seats and stored data rather than trace count.
Cost watchouts
Trace data past the included GB-months costs $1 per GB-month ingested or retained, and paid plans add per-token charges that vary by model; on the Free plan, trace spans past 1 GB-month are dropped.
Variable cost rationale
Paid plans carry unlimited seats, so spend tracks trace volume, retention length and token usage rather than headcount; the published calculator prices data at $1 per GB-month.
Additional watchouts
Advanced features like role based access and custom dashboards sit on higher or enterprise plans. Self hosting is a separate deployment path.
Overage / add-ons
Data beyond the included 1 GB-month is billed at $1 per GB-month. Additional seats are $19.99 each per month.
Sales call required
Mixed (some tiers require a call)
Free / trial
DeepEval free and open source; Free plan (2 seats, 1 project, 5 test runs a week, 1 GB-month of trace spans)
Lowest paid plan
Starter at $200/month
Commercial notes
DeepEval drives bottom up adoption among developers, and Confident AI converts teams that need collaboration, governance, and production monitoring. Role based access, custom dashboards, dedicated support, and self hosting are aimed at larger and regulated buyers.
Key ambiguities
The pricing page does not say which usage the per-token charges cover, and it places HIPAA on Enterprise while the documentation offers HIPAA BAAs from the Team plan up.
Cancellation / refund
Plans are self serve and can be upgraded or downgraded at any time. Detailed refund terms are not published.
Support SLA / resale
Community and standard support on lower tiers; dedicated support on higher and enterprise plans.
Missing data
Exact enterprise and self hosted pricing is not published and is arranged with sales. Per seat discounts at volume are not listed.
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