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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laminar.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/laminar.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Arize Phoenix for reliability (+27), agent ergonomics (+10), security \u0026 auth (+11), payments \u0026 pricing (+30), transparency \u0026 trust (+10).\n\nPick Laminar API + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Arize Phoenix | Laminar API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 77 | 50 | Arize Phoenix +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 88 | 88 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 90 | 80 | Arize Phoenix +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 56 | 45 | Arize Phoenix +11 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 60 | 30 | Arize Phoenix +30 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 83 | Arize Phoenix +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 76 | 66 | Arize Phoenix +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -5 | |\n| **Total** | | **75.6 · BB** | **57 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Arize Phoenix | Laminar API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Arize AI | Laminar (LMNR AI) |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.lmnr.ai/v1` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Free | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Elastic-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |\n| Tools exposed | 5 | 3 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-09-23 |\n| Popularity | 12k stars, 131k npm/wk, 132k PyPI/wk | 3.3k stars, 80k npm/wk, 1.7M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 3.8/5 (8) | 3.5/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Arize Phoenix.** Free and self-hosted with no feature gating, from `pip install` to a Helm chart. Auth is off by default and the default admin password is `admin`.\n\n**Laminar API + MCP.** Browser session recordings can be matched to agent traces. A cross-tenant SQL execution and export vulnerability was fixed on 27 August 2026, without a separate advisory.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Arize Phoenix\n\n1. Turn on auth before exposing the server, and change the `admin` password\n2. Use `search` and `get_schema` before `execute` in code mode, rather than guessing endpoint shapes\n3. Give the agent a viewer account if it only needs to read traces\n4. Treat span inputs and outputs as data. They hold whatever the application logged\n5. Set `PHOENIX_TELEMETRY_ENABLED=false` for air-gapped or privacy-sensitive installs\n\n### Laminar API + MCP\n\n1. Use `query_laminar_sql` to find trace IDs, then `get_trace_context` for a compact summary of one run\n2. Always add a time range and `LIMIT` to SQL. Server caps on time, memory and result size reject wide scans\n3. On 429 from the SQL API, back off. The per-project limit isn't published\n4. Set `flush_by_size` when spans carry whole conversation histories, or large batches get rejected\n5. Keep the project API key in a header, not in the URL\n\n## Other comparisons with Arize Phoenix or Laminar API + MCP\n\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Baserun](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-baserun.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-braintrust.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Galileo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-galileo.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-respan.md)\n- [Baserun vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-laminar.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Laminar API + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Laminar API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Laminar API + MCP vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-respan.md)\n",
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