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LangSmith

Also known as: LangSmith Fleet, SmithDB, LangSmith Engine, Context Hub, LangGraph Platform

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Entry priceDeveloper free · Plus $39/seat/mo + pay-as-you-go · Enterprise customFull pricing detail

LangChain's commercial agent engineering platform: tracing and evaluation, managed deployment of long-running agents, no-code Fleet agents, an issues agent, an LLM gateway and sandboxes, sold per seat with usage metered on top.

LangSmith is LangChain's commercial platform for building, observing, evaluating and running agents. LangChain and LangGraph are the free open source frameworks; LangSmith is the paid platform around them, and it works with any framework through its Python and TypeScript SDKs and OpenTelemetry.

Observability and evaluation are the core. Traces record each agent run step by step, including tool calls, decisions and outputs, and can be searched and exported. Teams evaluate offline against datasets and online with code, LLM-as-a-judge, composite and multi-turn evaluators, route outputs to annotation queues for human feedback, and test prompts in a Prompt Hub and Playground. LangSmith Engine monitors traces on its own, clusters failures into issues, diagnoses them and recommends fixes to prompts and code, then creates evals so the failure does not come back.

Around that core, LangSmith Deployment runs long-running agents as durable Agent Servers with streaming, cron scheduling, human-in-the-loop, state and memory endpoints, and the option to expose an agent as an MCP server; Managed Deep Agents, in public beta, runs an agent defined as a directory of files with durable memory, sandboxes, schedules and Slack channels.

LangSmith Fleet builds no-code agents from templates, connects them to Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Salesforce and MCP servers under each agent's own or each user's credentials, runs them on schedules or from Slack and Teams, and pauses them for approval in a central inbox. An LLM Gateway adds model fallbacks, spend and rate-limit policies and PII redaction, and Sandboxes run agent-generated code in isolated environments.

LangSmith holds SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, supports SAML or OIDC SSO with SCIM, custom roles and attribute-based access policies, and states that it does not train on customer data. It runs in LangChain's cloud in the US or EU, as a hybrid with the data plane in the customer's VPC, fully self-hosted on Kubernetes, or in the customer's own cloud operated by LangChain. The Developer plan is free for one seat, Plus is $39 per seat a month, Enterprise is custom, and usage beyond the included traces, along with deployments, Fleet, Engine and sandboxes, is metered in compute and storage units.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.langchain.com/langsmith

Category

Agent infrastructure

Funding status

Private unicorn. 25M USD Series A Feb 2024 led by Sequoia at a reported valuation near 200M USD, the same month LangSmith reached general availability. 125M USD Series B Oct 2025 led by IVP at a reported 1.25B USD valuation, with strategic participation from Databricks, Datadog, Cisco and ServiceNow. Figures are third party reported and were not confirmed against a LangChain newsroom page.

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Target customers

LangChain and LangGraph teamsAI engineering teamsenterprises running agents in production

Deployment options

SaaScloudself-hosted (enterprise only)

In practice

Your LangGraph agent fails in production for reasons traditional monitoring cannot surface. Traces carry node by node state diffs and full execution graphs, and runs can be replayed against new model versions.

You need to prove an agent got better rather than just different. Offline dataset evaluation and online language model as judge evaluators run against the same traced runs.

Failures are piling up faster than anyone can read them. LangSmith Engine clusters failures automatically and proposes fixes rather than leaving a wall of individual traces.

Agentic Index coverage score

11.5 / 14 capabilities · 82%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

Fleet agents act through built-in integrations such as Gmail, Slack and GitHub, custom MCP servers added to the workspace, an Arcade integration for third-party tools, and a Salesforce integration that queries records; each agent authenticates either with its own fixed credentials or with each user's own OAuth connection, and admins can enable or disable integrations and control who may invoke each one.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith fleet/access-and-oversight and docs.langchain.com/llms.txt (Fleet tools, Arcade, Salesforce and agent identity pages)read 2026-09-21

Workflow Orchestration Partial

Deployed agents run as durable Agent Servers in LangSmith Deployment, with background runs, cron, interrupts and double-texting handling. Deployment revisions are kept and agent graphs are debugged in LangSmith Studio, so orchestration is versioned and debuggable. The workflows that mix deterministic nodes with agent steps and make loops, branches and retries first-class are written in LangGraph rather than in LangSmith, and Fleet builds agents from natural-language instructions rather than workflow definitions.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith/llms.txt (Agent Server core capabilities, cron and interrupt pages) and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Not documented

Context Hub stores and versions agent instructions, skills and durable memory, Fleet agents read the customer's systems through integrations at run time, and LangSmith evaluates retrieval inside the customer's own application. No document ingestion, index, retrieval layer or knowledge API that grounds agents in company data is documented.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith/llms.txt (Context Hub pages) and docs.langchain.com/llms.txt (Fleet section)read 2026-09-21

Human Oversight & Guardrails Full

Fleet agents can be configured to pause and request approval before taking specific actions, and a central inbox lets reviewers approve, edit or reject those actions across all agents; the Agent Server also documents human-in-the-loop and time travel through its API, and admins gate which tools each role may invoke.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith fleet/access-and-oversight and llms.txt (human-in-the-loop using server API)read 2026-09-21

Security, Identity & Governance Full

Beyond holding SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, LangSmith supports SAML or OIDC single sign-on with just-in-time provisioning and SCIM for automated provisioning and deprovisioning, applies built-in or custom roles per workspace and attribute-based access policies that can block PII from specific users, and records administrative actions in audit logs; retention periods and deletion by metadata are configurable, and LangSmith states it does not use customer data to train models. Fleet adds role- and attribute-based control over which users may invoke each MCP server and integration.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith enterprise and fleet/access-and-oversight, and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Observability & Auditability Full

LangSmith traces capture each agent run step by step, including tool calls, decisions and outputs, and can be inspected, searched and exported, with bulk data export on every plan; for Fleet agents, the trace shows which agent acted, on whose behalf and with what credentials. Audit logs record administrative actions across the organization separately from traces, and traces are kept on base or extended retention tiers.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith fleet/access-and-oversight, enterprise and llms.txt (audit logs), and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Memory & State Persistence Full

A managed deep agent's conversational memory is scoped to its thread, and durable memory, when enabled, gives the deployment a read and write tree in Context Hub that the agent maintains itself, with a hot file loaded into every run and cold files read when relevant; the documentation says what should never be stored there, such as personal data and credentials, and Context Hub contents can be pushed, pulled, listed and deleted through the SDK. LangSmith Deployment's API also carries state and memory endpoints.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith managed-deep-agents-memory and llms.txt (Context Hub SDK), and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Deployment & Data Residency Full

LangSmith runs in LangChain's managed cloud with US or EU data residency; hybrid keeps the control plane in LangChain's cloud and the data plane in the customer's VPC; self-hosting runs the whole platform on the customer's Kubernetes, with guides for AWS, Azure and GCP; and Bring Your Own Cloud stores data and runs services in the customer's cloud while LangChain operates, scales and upgrades the infrastructure.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith enterprise and llms.txt (BYOC, hybrid and self-hosted pages), and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Full

Fleet gives access to prebuilt agent templates that a team customizes for tools, prompts and channels and can share and clone, and LangSmith Engine is a ready-made agent that monitors traces on its own, clusters agent failures into issues, diagnoses them and recommends fixes.

SourceLangChain, langchain.com/pricing and docs.langchain.com/llms.txt (Fleet templates and quickstart pages)read 2026-09-21

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

LangSmith Deployment includes cron scheduling for deployed agents, Fleet agents run on recurring schedules and start automatically from configured channels, including Slack and Microsoft Teams apps where the team tags the agent directly, Managed Deep Agents declare cron schedules and start runs from Slack messages, and Fleet agents can also be triggered through the API. Schedules and channel events start the agent without a person initiating it.

SourceLangChain, langchain.com/pricing and docs.langchain.com/llms.txt (Fleet schedules, channels, Slack and Teams pages; Managed Deep Agents schedules and channels)read 2026-09-21

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

The LangSmith LLM Gateway sits between agents and model providers with the customer's own model API keys or Gateway Credits, model fallbacks, cost and rate-limit controls, and PII and secrets redaction; spend, rate-limit and per-customer policies are documented, and deployments can connect to custom models and OpenAI-compatible providers. Model choice stays with the customer, with policies enforced across it.

SourceLangChain, langchain.com/pricing and docs.langchain.com/langsmith/llms.txt (LLM Gateway fallbacks and policy pages)read 2026-09-21

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Full

LangSmith documents a REST API across traces, datasets, evaluators, prompts, deployments, access policies and SCIM, Python and TypeScript SDKs, a LangSmith MCP server and a remote MCP endpoint, and an Agent Server whose deployed agents stream, accept webhooks and can be exposed as MCP servers or reached over A2A; Fleet agents can be invoked through the LangGraph SDK or REST API, and Fleet webhooks connect publishing to CI/CD pipelines. MCP is both served and consumed, and the platform fits into CI/CD and other agent systems.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith/llms.txt and docs.langchain.com/llms.txt (Fleet section), and langchain.com/pricingread 2026-09-21

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

Offline evaluations run against collected datasets and online evaluators run on production traffic, with code, LLM-as-a-judge, composite and multi-turn online evaluators documented, annotation queues for human feedback, a Prompt Hub and Playground for testing changes, and LangSmith Engine, which monitors traces, clusters failures into issues, recommends fixes to prompts and code, and creates offline and online evals so failures do not repeat. That covers testing on datasets before production, quality scored over time, and a loop after deployment.

SourceLangChain, langchain.com/pricing feature table and docs.langchain.com/langsmith/llms.txt (online evaluator pages)read 2026-09-21

Browser & Computer Use Not documented

Fleet's computer use attaches an isolated virtual computer on which the agent writes and executes code, manages files, installs packages and calls authenticated APIs through a credential-injecting proxy, and LangSmith Sandboxes run agent-generated code in ephemeral environments. Neither documents the agent operating a browser, a desktop session or a graphical interface, so the work stays in sandboxes, terminals and code execution.

SourceLangChain, docs.langchain.com/langsmith/fleet/computer-use and langchain.com/pricing; docs.langchain.com/langsmith/fleet/computer-use.mdread 2026-09-21

The Agentic Index coverage score grades every vendor Full, Partial or Not documented 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

2026-09-24·Workflow orchestrationVerified

LangSmith launched the public beta of smithtune, a CLI and coding agent skill that turns recorded agent trajectories into supervised fine tuning workflows. It prepares and persists training datasets, submits training jobs to Fireworks or Baseten, compares the resulting model with the base model through LangSmith evaluations, and can deploy the selected model. Users need a LangSmith account with agent traces and an API key for a supported training provider.

Bears on: Workflow orchestration

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2026-09-14·Deployment / data residencyPartially Verified

LangSmith SaaS now caps extended trace retention at 180 days. Existing settings above 180 days are reduced automatically for new traces; self hosted and bring your own cloud deployments are unaffected.

Bears on: Deployment / data residency

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2026-08-07·Deployment / data residencyVerified

LangSmith launched Managed Deep Agents in public beta. This release allows developers to deploy Deep Agents to a managed LangSmith runtime that includes durable execution, memory, sandboxes, channels, and evaluations.

Bears on: Deployment / data residency

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View all 4 changes for LangSmith →Tracked since Jul 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Developer free · Plus $39/seat/mo + pay-as-you-go · Enterprise custom

Per seat on Developer and Plus plus pay-as-you-go usage: base traces beyond the included amount, and LangChain Compute Units ($1.50) and Storage Units ($1.00) for deployments, Fleet, Engine and sandboxes

Free tier

What is public

Tier names, the free trace allowance, the per seat rate and both trace overage rates with their retention windows are all published.

Billing mechanics

Three tiers. Developer is free with 5,000 traces a month. Plus is $39 per seat per month self serve. Enterprise is annual invoiced with custom single sign on, role based access control and self hosted deployment. Above the included quota, traces are metered: $2.50 per 1,000 at 14 day retention or $5.00 per 1,000 at 400 day retention.

Cost watchouts

Usage beyond the included traces is pay-as-you-go, base traces are kept 14 days and longer retention costs more, and deployments, Fleet, Engine and sandboxes meter in LangChain Compute and Storage Units whose consumption depends on what agents do; custom SSO, custom roles and self-hosted or hybrid deployment are Enterprise.

Variable cost rationale

Seats are predictable, but trace volume and the compute and storage units consumed by deployments, Fleet, Engine and sandboxes scale with what agents do in production, which the vendor itself says varies.

Additional watchouts

Two structural costs beyond the sticker. Retention choice doubles the per trace rate, and the governance features most enterprises require, single sign on, role based access control and self hosting, are all gated to the enterprise tier. Independent reviews also flag ecosystem lock in: the cost curve climbs faster than open source alternatives at scale, which is the explicit argument Langfuse makes against it.

Overage / add-ons

Base traces $2.50 per 1,000 with 14 day retention; extended traces $5.00 per 1,000 with 400 day retention, charged once the included quota is exceeded

Sales call required

Mixed (some tiers require a call)

Free / trial

Developer plan free: 1 seat, 5,000 base traces a month, 5 LCU of Fleet use and a small sandbox allowance; startups can apply for up to $10,000 in credits

Lowest paid plan

Plus

Commercial notes

The LangChain and LangGraph frameworks are free and open source; LangSmith is the paid platform, priced per seat on Developer and Plus with usage metered on top, and Enterprise adds hosting, security and support options. A startup program offers discounted rates and up to $10,000 in credits.

Key ambiguities

LCU and LSU consumption varies with the work agents perform, and the pricing page's calculator is labeled an estimate only.

Missing data

Enterprise rates, the precise LCU and LSU conversion, and included trace quotas per tier.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-21

Alternatives to LangSmith

The closest documented capability profiles to LangSmith among agent infrastructure platforms tracked by Agentic Index, ordered by similarity on the same 14 point evidence the rankings use. No vendor pays for placement.

  • Agno13.0 / 14Adds documented Knowledge Grounding & RAG
  • Braintrust10.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than LangSmith
  • LangWatch10.0 / 14A lighter documented profile than LangSmith
  • Tray.ai13.0 / 14Adds documented Knowledge Grounding & RAG
  • Windmill12.0 / 14Adds documented Browser & Computer Use
  • Bernstein10.5 / 14Fuller documented coverage on Workflow Orchestration

Similarity is computed from each vendor's Agentic Index coverage score evidence, axis by axis, not from the totals. How this evidence is graded

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