# agents-tree vs LangWatch (slim)

> LangWatch scores 65.6 (B) to agents-tree's 64.3 (B) for agent tracing. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LangWatch scores 65.6 (B) on agent readiness against agents-tree's 64.3 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. agents-tree leads on reliability, agent ergonomics and payments & pricing. Both do agent tracing.

- agents-tree: B 64.3, rank #401 of 1260 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agents-tree.min.md
- LangWatch: B 65.6, rank #333 of 1260 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langwatch.min.md
- agents-tree, good for Seeing every coding-agent session and its sub-agents as one tree in a terminal Ahead on Reliability, 60 against 53; Agent ergonomics, 73 against 67; Payments & pricing, 60 against 40. Also No key needed to call it.
- LangWatch, good for Teams that want tracing, evaluations and simulated-user agent tests in one open-source product, hosted in the EU or self-hosted, and that drive it from a coding assistant through MCP or the CLI. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 87 against 64; Security & auth, 71 against 66; Maintenance & community, 90 against 63; Transparency & trust, 76 against 62. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Runs on your own machine; Free to start without a card.

| Category | agents-tree | LangWatch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 53 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 87 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 73 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 66 | 71 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 90 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 62 | 76 |

| Fact (where they differ) | agents-tree | LangWatch |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Agent framework | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Karel Blavka | Reasoning Engine B.V. (LangWatch) |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://app.langwatch.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy), stdio |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT (Copyright (c) 2026 Karel Blavka) | Apache 2.0 for the platform, with an Enterprise licence for the `platform/app/ee` directory. The SDKs and the MCP server are MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 101 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-08 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-09-22 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-29 |
| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 4.9k stars, 50k npm/wk, 87k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Maintenance & community, LangWatch +27: agents-tree 63 (1.2.0 on PyPI on 8 October 2026, 24 days before the check, and a commit on main on 11 October (30). Five PyPI releases between 7 and 8 October 2026 (20). Issue and pull-request replies couldn't be read, as github.com was unreachable. The bare clone shows two Dependabot branches of 28 October unmerged (5 of 25). Not an MCP server and in no official directory; herdr's plugin marketplace couldn't be read (0). No runtime dependencies, a lock file, CI on five Python versions and Dependabot for the workflow actions, with its two updates unmerged (8 of 10). 63 in all.); LangWatch 90 (Platform 3.20.1 on 2 October 2026, seven days before the check (30). 21 platform releases dated since 11 July in CHANGELOG.md (20). 52 open issues and 222 open pull requests, with new issues filed, labelled and prioritised by maintainers within the past week, and support by email, Discord and GitHub. Reply times were not visible to us (17). Current official SDKs, Python 1.4.0 on 6 September, TypeScript 1.19.0 on 30 September and Go 1.0.0 on 9 September. The MCP server was not found in the official MCP registry (15). CI workflows for the app, each SDK and the MCP server, CodeQL, code scanners and dependency bumps in the changelog. We could not confirm the pass state (8).)
- Schema & documentation, LangWatch +23: agents-tree 64 (Framework reading, docs a model can follow, as agent-tree was read. `--json` writes one document with `schema_version` 1 and a fixed set of session, agent and detail fields, and model.py types them as dataclasses, but no JSON Schema or field reference is published (14 of 25). README, AGENTS.md and docs/demo are Markdown in the repository; no llms.txt (10). The README says what it shows and reads, has a caveats section per provider (context window inference, internal formats, how running sessions are found), and the command's help says not to run it inside an agent (15 of 20). argparse with choices for --provider and --color, positive-number checks for --window and --interval, and --json refused with --watch (10 of 15). Usage examples for every flag, key and column tables, and errors as messages on stderr with exit code 1, with few error outputs documented (10 of 15). Semver tags and a schema version, no changelog (5 of 15). 64 in all.); LangWatch 87 (A public OpenAPI 3.1 document of 215 paths and 328 operations, served without a key, and typed zod inputs on every MCP tool (25). llms.txt and a Markdown twin of each docs page (10). Every operation has a summary or description, and MCP descriptions say when to pick a tool, for example `run_query` for counts and rates and `discover_schema` before a search. 158 operations carry no tag (16). 540 enums in the document, with trace filters still accepted as a free-form map alongside the query language (12). Docs pages carry request examples, and the gateway error list gives 34 codes with cause and remedy. Most platform operations document errors only as an `error` and `message` string pair (11). Dated public changelog, release notes per package and a document version of 1.0.0, with `/api/v1` paths mixed among unversioned ones (13).)
- Payments & pricing, agents-tree +20: agents-tree 60 (Self-hosted rule. No payment protocol (0). Free under MIT with nothing to buy (20). No card or account (20). A person installs it from PyPI with one command and no sign-up (20). 60 in all.); LangWatch 40 (No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Per-unit prices are public without a login, 29 euros per core seat a month, 5 euros per 100,000 events and $0.0546 per million judge input tokens (20). The Developer plan is free with no card (20). A person signs up in a browser and creates the first key. The CLI's device-code login also needs a browser approval, and `platform_create_project` returns a key only to a caller that already holds an organisation key. Free self-hosting is not an agent route (0).)
- Transparency & trust, LangWatch +14: agents-tree 62 (MIT, an OSI licence (30). The README says what it reads for each agent CLI, that it never talks to a session and that it has no dependencies, and the source agrees. AGENTS.md forbids real session data in the repository. There is no privacy page, though the software sends nothing (22 of 30). No deprecation policy. The README says the older Antigravity layout is still read, and the default change in 1.0.0 came with a major version (5 of 20). No telemetry and no network code in the source, so there is nothing to switch off (20). 77 in all.); LangWatch 76 (Apache 2.0 platform with the `platform/app/ee` directory under a separate Enterprise licence, and MIT SDKs and MCP server (27). The privacy policy of 29 September 2026 names its processors and the retention docs are detailed, but the documents disagree in places. The pricing page says 30-day retention is included where the docs say 49 days, the terms describe a 14-day free trial where the pricing page says free forever, and the terms give two addresses and two spellings of the entity. The terms also grant LangWatch a perpetual licence to use client data to improve the platform, while saying it will not train on it (18). Deprecated endpoints are marked in the OpenAPI document and the docs, and breaking changes are flagged in the changelogs, but no removal dates or notice period were found (10). EU hosting on AWS is stated and processors are named in the privacy policy. Self-hosted telemetry is documented connection by connection with an off switch. The public sub-processor list is on a host we could not read (18).)
- Reliability, agents-tree +7: agents-tree 60 (Local-package reading, as for agent-tree, superpowers and tokeneconomizer. Installs from PyPI with `uv tool install agents-tree` or pipx, with Python 3.10 or later and POSIX stated in pyproject.toml and Linux and macOS in the herdr manifest (20). .github/workflows/test.yaml runs pylint, pyright, 173 pytest tests, a test run and a package build on Python 3.10 to 3.14 on every push and pull request. Whether the runs pass wasn't checked, as github.com couldn't be read (15 of 25). Issues couldn't be read for the same reason (5 of 25, unchecked). Semver tags and Conventional Commit messages, but no changelog, and the README's caveat that transcript formats may change is the only note on breakage; the switch to reading every provider by default came with 1.0.0 (5 of 15). Version 1.2.0 (15). 60 in all.); LangWatch 53 (Graded as a hosted service (LangWatch Cloud). Better Stack status page with 9 components and 90 days of history (20). In that window the App had one 20-minute downtime on 19 July and the Collector 23 minutes that day and 5 minutes on 13 August, but the Processor was degraded on 17 days, for 14 hours 44 minutes on 31 July, and Scenarios was down on 7 days, for 9 hours 34 minutes on 8 September. The core API stayed under an hour and other components had several long incidents (10). No request rate limit for the platform API was found in the reviewed documentation. The only numbers are customer-set limits on AI Gateway virtual keys (0). Retries are partly covered. Events carry an idempotency key and are deduplicated, `evaluation_id` makes an evaluation call idempotent, and two operations declare a 429, one with `Retry-After`. No general backoff guidance for the platform API was found (8). The pricing page lists a contractual uptime and support SLA on Enterprise, with no published terms (5). The REST API, MCP server 2.1.0 and the 1.x SDKs are generally available (10).)
- Agent ergonomics, agents-tree +6: agents-tree 73 (Framework reading, how much an agent has to carry. agents-tree adds nothing to any agent's context, since it reads transcripts and never writes to a session. Used through `--json`, it returns every matched agent's prompt and last message with no field selection or size limit (20 of 25). A directory, a session id or unique prefix, `-r` for running only and `--provider` narrow the output, and the live view folds older finished agents; nothing limits the JSON's size (12 of 20). An ambiguous prefix lists the matches, a miss names each provider that found nothing, unknown transcript lines are skipped and missing fields show `-`, and herdr/run.sh names the Python it needs (14 of 20). Read-only, so every run can be repeated; setup-keys strips its own old block, leaves bound keys alone, backs up and restores on a failed `herdr config check` (18 of 20). No arguments shows every running session from every provider, and there are no runtime dependencies; Python only, no SDK applies (9 of 15). 73 in all.); LangWatch 67 (The MCP server registers 101 tools in the 2.1.0 source, with no toolsets or dynamic loading found. Trace tools return a compact digest by default, which earns 3 back (8). Cursor paging with `next_cursor`, `limit` and `pageSize`, filters, a projection DSL on trace search and a `digest` or `json` format switch (20). Gateway errors carry a stable code, tips, a docs link and a `fault` field, and the MCP client passes them on. Platform errors are plainer (16). No `readOnlyHint` or `destructiveHint` in the MCP source. Idempotency exists for evaluations and ingested events, and several delete tools archive instead of removing (8). Python, TypeScript and Go SDKs, a CLI, and few required parameters (15).)