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A workspace Admin creates it in the console, it reaches one project, is shown once, shows its last-used time and can be revoked at once. Keys don't expire and have no read-only or ingest-only type. The eval API also accepts a token exchanged from a key. Red-team targets' credentials go in project secrets, referenced as `$NAME` and never shown back.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free plan with one workspace, a cap on organisation members, unlimited projects and 5,000 evaluations a month across the organisation. Paid plans are uncapped for evaluations, but their prices aren't published. botgauge.com/pricing prices BotGauge's separate QA test-automation service, not this product (https://www.botgauge.com/docs/evals/api-and-limits.md, https://www.botgauge.com/docs/platform/workspaces-and-projects.md, checked 2026-11-01).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, llms-full.txt, terms or pricing pages. 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The agent product's homepage (https://www.botgauge.com/, read 1 November 2026) shows a 4.6 G2 rating that belongs to BotGauge's older QA service, and quotes the same customer (Michael Hoy, ATLAS) on red-team campaigns that the QA pages quote on the QA service. The founder's decision, 1 November 2026." ], "verdict": "Tracing takes standard OTLP with project-scoped, revocable keys, and the privacy policy, DPA and sub-processor list are detailed and dated. 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(Delaware, United States)", "domain": "botgauge.com", "domainRegistered": "2023-10-18", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.botgauge.com/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://www.botgauge.com/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-11-01", "notes": [ "The terms and privacy policy, both last updated 28 October 2026, name BotGauge AI Inc., a Delaware company at 1111B S Governors Ave # 98032, Dover, DE 19904, with Delaware law and JAMS arbitration.", "Verisign RDAP gives botgauge.com a registration date of 18 October 2023, last changed 20 October 2026, with AWS name servers.", "www.botgauge.com/.well-known/security.txt, /security and /trust return 404. status.botgauge.com doesn't resolve and no status page is linked.", "No changelog or release notes page was found. /docs/changelog returns 404, though the docs tell users to read the release notes before upgrading.", "The AQS QA service has its own terms and privacy policy at /aqs/legal/terms and /aqs/legal/privacy." ], "score": 62 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/botgauge.json", "live": { "slug": "botgauge", "probe": { "target": "https://api.botgauge.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-11-02T00:55:57.616015146Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 564, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 592, "p95ms24h": 615, "samples24h": 28, "samples30d": 28, "days": [ { "date": "2026-11-01", "probes": 18, "ok": 18 }, { "date": "2026-11-02", "probes": 10, "ok": 10 } ] }, "updatedAt": "2026-11-02T00:55:57.616015146Z" } }, "edges": [ { "by": 67, "category": "maintenance", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "reasons": { "a": "Last releases were PyPI 2.0.9 on 2024-06-26 (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 17 October, since PyPI answered with a JavaScript challenge) and npm 2.1.3, still the latest on 17 October, both more than two years old (0). No releases in the last 90 days (0). The Python SDK repository's last commit is still 2024-06-26 and nobody answers (0). SDKs aren't current (0). No CI beyond a pre-commit workflow (0).", "b": "botgauge, botgauge-tracing and botgauge-cli 0.1.3 on 2026-10-31 (30). Four releases of each since 20 October 2026, 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2 and 0.1.3 (20). Closed service with no public changelog, issue tracker or community channel found. Support by email at support@botgauge.com (4). One official SDK, Python, current (10). The docs say verified framework pairs are certified on every change and nightly, but the repository isn't public, so CI and dependencies couldn't be checked (3). 30+20+4+10+3 = 67. The product is 12 days old by its first package release." }, "scores": { "a": 0, "b": 67 } }, { "by": 51, "category": "security", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "reasons": { "a": "The old credential model was one project API key read from `BASERUN_API_KEY` (no longer accepted anywhere, 0). No security policy, security.txt or certification found (0). The risk that remains is the SDK default. `baserun` on PyPI sends trace data to https://app.baserun.ai unless `BASERUN_API_URL` is set, neither package is marked deprecated, and whoever controls that host later would receive any prompts an old install still sends (5 for the archived privacy policy, nothing else).", "b": "Project API keys reach one project, are shown once, stored in a form that can't be read back per the DPA, show their last-used time and revoke immediately, with documented rotation steps. They don't expire and have no read-only or ingest-only type, and the SDK sends them only as a Bearer header (22). Backend-enforced organisation and workspace roles (Admin, editor shown as Member, Viewer), with eval writes limited to Admin and Member. Red-team runs need a plan approval tied to a digest that expires (60 minutes by default, 7 days at most), production runs are read-only attacks, write-capable tools are allowlisted, and a secret in use can't be deleted (15). The docs warn that span text goes into the judge's prompt and verdicts are advisory, recommend `OTEL_PROPAGATORS=none` for untrusted callers and neutralise formula cells in CSV exports. No guidance for agents reading traces or transcripts back (8). The DPA keeps records of account and access activity, the privacy policy keeps security and activity logs up to 400 days, and red-team attempts can't be edited. No customer-facing audit log is documented (5). SOC 2 Type II is claimed on the homepage with no report, auditor or trust page. No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty found. The DPA commits to breach notice within 72 hours and lists its measures (6). 22+15+8+5+6 = 56." }, "scores": { "a": 5, "b": 56 } }, { "by": 50, "category": "ergonomics", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "reasons": { "a": "Nothing can be called. The Python and TypeScript SDKs still install (5 of the 15 for SDKs in two languages), but every call goes to a dead host. No sizing, pagination, error or retry behaviour to assess (0).", "b": "API responses can be narrowed by `subject_ids` and `subject_kind`, a results query takes up to 500 items, and judges read at most 20,000 characters, but no field selection or summaries are documented (12). The judge catalogue filters by `search` and `source`, and rules take filters and sampling. No pagination is documented on any list endpoint (10). Errors carry a code, a message and a request id. Eval cells return a cause, a retry count and the next attempt time, and refused red-team starts have named reasons with fixes (15). `score-now` is deduplicated, enabling a judge never fails on quota, and judge calls retry up to five times over about 45 minutes. No idempotency keys on other writes (8). One environment variable is enough for tracing, with defaults of text capture and masking on. Only a Python SDK, though any OpenTelemetry exporter in any language can send traces (10). 12+10+15+8+10 = 55." }, "scores": { "a": 5, "b": 55 } }, { "by": 38, "category": "schema", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "reasons": { "a": "Scored on what's left. docs.baserun.ai still serves an llms.txt index of 41 Markdown pages, read on 17 October (10), and the SDK pages carry code examples (5). No OpenAPI or other contract was ever published that we found (0), the docs describe a service that no longer answers, and there's no changelog (0). The llms.txt still links a changelog at www.baserun.ai, which fails the TLS handshake.", "b": "No OpenAPI file for the eval or red-team endpoints was found in the docs or llms-full.txt. Ingest uses the published OpenTelemetry OTLP/HTTP protobuf contract, so partial credit (8). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown for every page on Mintlify (10). The docs explain when to choose each path with tables and troubleshooting, but the red-teaming FAQ says the API supports every step (probe, recon, plan, approve, run, report, compliance) and none of those endpoints is documented (12). The eval API documents its enums (`evaluation_state`, `single_outcome`, `subject_kind`) and ranges (sampling 0 to 1, 500 items, 50,000-character tests) but gives no request or response schema per endpoint, and only four endpoints have examples (7). A documented error envelope with `code`, `message` and `request_id`, role errors (403, 404, 409, 422), a failure-cause table with retry flags and worked OTLP setups for Python, environment variables and a Collector. No list of error codes (11). `/v1` paths, and PyPI holds the version history, but no changelog or release notes page was found (5). 8+10+12+7+11+5 = 53." }, "scores": { "a": 15, "b": 53 } }, { "by": 28, "category": "transparency", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "reasons": { "a": "The SDKs are MIT, copyright Mochi Labs, Inc., and the platform was closed with terms that now survive only in Internet Archive copies (10). No statement on what happened to customer trace data after shutdown (0). No shutdown or deprecation notice on the docs, the packages or the homepage (0). No subprocessor list that we could load (0).", "b": "Closed platform under terms dated 28 October 2026 that name BotGauge AI Inc. The SDK is source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2, not an OSI licence, with each release becoming Apache-2.0 after two years, and its repository isn't public (16). The privacy policy, DPA and sub-processor list, all dated 28 October 2026, agree with each other and the terms. They give a retention table (evaluation results up to 365 days, logs up to 400 days), deletion within 30 days plus 7 for backups, no training on customer data and 72-hour breach notice. Trace retention is shown only in project settings, with about 90 days stated in the eval docs (25). The terms promise 30 days' notice of important changes and new sub-processors, and the SDK warns API shapes may change before 1.0. No deprecation policy for the API (5). Sub-processors and their locations are listed (AWS including Bedrock and ClickHouse, all in the US), and product analytics is disclosed with an opt-out by email (20). 16+25+5+20 = 66." }, "scores": { "a": 36, "b": 64 } }, { "by": 18, "category": "reliability", "leads": "botgauge", "name": "Reliability", "reasons": { "a": "Shut down, so there's nothing left to be reliable. No status page (0) and no incident history (0). api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve in DNS and app.baserun.ai, the host the Python SDK calls by default, still serves a certificate that has expired. No rate limits, retry guidance or SLA survive (0). Nothing is generally available (0).", "b": "No status page. status.botgauge.com doesn't resolve and neither the site nor the docs link one (0). With no history to read, 5. No request rate limits for ingest or the eval API. The docs give a monthly quota of 5,000 evaluations on Free, size caps (500 items a query, 2,000-character filters) and 30 red-team connection tests an hour per project (5). No 429 or Retry-After guidance. `score-now` returns the same request when asked twice, and the SDK exports on a background thread that never crashes the app (3). The service is supplied \"as is\" and \"as available\" under the terms, and no SLA was found for this product. The 99.9 per cent SLA on the /ai-agents page belongs to the QA service (0). 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Baserun has a hosted endpoint at https://app.baserun.ai and BotGauge at https://api.botgauge.com.", "question": "Can an agent call Baserun and BotGauge without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": [ "No incidents deducted, where BotGauge loses 3 points for them" ], "goodFor": "Nothing new. It shut down on 2024-09-30.", "slug": "baserun", "watchFor": "Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 18 against 0", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 53 against 15", "Agent ergonomics, 55 against 5", "Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 5", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 67 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 36" ], "also": [ "Still running. 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"Agent Tree vs BotGauge", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-tree-vs-botgauge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-tree-vs-baserun.json", "title": "agents-tree vs Baserun", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-tree-vs-baserun" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-tree-vs-botgauge.json", "title": "agents-tree vs BotGauge", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agents-tree-vs-botgauge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-baserun.json", "title": "Arize Phoenix vs Baserun", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-baserun" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-botgauge.json", "title": "Arize Phoenix vs BotGauge", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-botgauge" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-braintrust.json", "title": "Baserun vs Braintrust API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-braintrust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-deepeval.json", "title": "Baserun vs DeepEval", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-deepeval" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-galileo.json", "title": "Baserun vs Galileo API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-galileo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-helicone.json", "title": "Baserun vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-helicone" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.json", "title": "Baserun vs HoneyHive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-laminar.json", "title": "Baserun vs Laminar API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-laminar" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langfuse.json", "title": "Baserun vs Langfuse API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langfuse" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langsmith.json", "title": "Baserun vs LangSmith API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langsmith" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langwatch.json", "title": "Baserun vs LangWatch", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langwatch" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-mlflow-tracing.json", "title": "Baserun vs MLflow Tracing", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-mlflow-tracing" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige.json", "title": "Baserun vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-opik.json", "title": "Baserun vs Opik API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-opik" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-prefactor.json", "title": "Baserun vs Prefactor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-prefactor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-pydantic-logfire.json", "title": "Baserun vs Pydantic Logfire", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-pydantic-logfire" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-respan.json", "title": "Baserun vs Respan API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-respan" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-wandb-weave.json", "title": "Baserun vs W\u0026B Weave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-wandb-weave" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-braintrust.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Braintrust API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-braintrust" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-deepeval.json", "title": "BotGauge vs DeepEval", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-deepeval" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-galileo.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Galileo API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-galileo" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-helicone.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-helicone" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-honeyhive.json", "title": "BotGauge vs HoneyHive", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-honeyhive" }, { "json": 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-navige.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-opik.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Opik API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-opik" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-prefactor.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Prefactor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-prefactor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-pydantic-logfire.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Pydantic Logfire", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-pydantic-logfire" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-respan.json", "title": "BotGauge vs Respan API + MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-respan" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-wandb-weave.json", "title": "BotGauge vs W\u0026B Weave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/botgauge-vs-wandb-weave" } ], "panel": null, "scores": [ { "baserun": 0, "botgauge": 18, "by": 18, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "reliability", "name": "Reliability", "weight": 16 }, { "key": "performance", "name": "Performance", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baserun": 15, "botgauge": 53, "by": 38, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "schema", "name": "Schema \u0026 documentation", "weight": 13 }, { "baserun": 5, "botgauge": 55, "by": 50, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "ergonomics", "name": "Agent ergonomics", "weight": 13 }, { "baserun": 5, "botgauge": 56, "by": 51, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "security", "name": "Security \u0026 auth", "weight": 14 }, { "baserun": 0, "botgauge": 10, "by": 10, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "payments", "name": "Payments \u0026 pricing", "weight": 10 }, { "key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "baserun": 0, "botgauge": 67, "by": 67, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7 }, { "baserun": 36, "botgauge": 64, "by": 28, "edge": "botgauge", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7 } ], "summary": "Baserun shut down on 2024-09-30. BotGauge scores 40.7 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent tracing.", "tasks": null, "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "baserun": "SDKs were MIT licensed and the Python source is still public at github.com/baserun-ai/baserun-py. Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate.", "botgauge": "Tracing takes standard OTLP with project-scoped, revocable keys, and the privacy policy, DPA and sub-processor list are detailed and dated. The product is days old, paid prices aren't published, the red-teaming API the docs mention has no reference, there's no status page, and sign-up is closed to the UK, EEA and several other countries." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge.min.md" }, "markdown": "Baserun shut down on 2024-09-30. BotGauge scores 40.7 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent tracing.\n\n- Baserun: grade F, 7.3/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserun.json\n- BotGauge: grade E, 40.7/100, rank #1132 of 1260. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/botgauge.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/botgauge.json\n- Best agent tracing, monitoring and evaluation tools: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-observability/index.md\n- All 210 evals comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/agent-observability/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Baserun (F)\n\nGood for: Nothing new. It shut down on 2024-09-30.\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- No incidents deducted, where BotGauge loses 3 points for them\n\nWatch for: Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate\n\n### BotGauge (E)\n\nGood for: A team that wants adversarial testing of a tool-calling agent before release, with traces and AI-judge evals in the same place, and that is outside the countries the terms exclude.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 18 against 0\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 53 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 55 against 5\n- Security \u0026 auth, 56 against 5\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 10 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 67 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 64 against 36\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Still running. Baserun has shut down\n\nWatch for: First SDK release on 20 October 2026, with 0.x packages marked Beta whose API may change before 1.0\n\n\n## Why the edge\n\n### Maintenance \u0026 community: BotGauge +67\n\n- Baserun (0): Last releases were PyPI 2.0.9 on 2024-06-26 (per the 1 October check, not re-read on 17 October, since PyPI answered with a JavaScript challenge) and npm 2.1.3, still the latest on 17 October, both more than two years old (0). No releases in the last 90 days (0). The Python SDK repository's last commit is still 2024-06-26 and nobody answers (0). SDKs aren't current (0). No CI beyond a pre-commit workflow (0).\n- BotGauge (67): botgauge, botgauge-tracing and botgauge-cli 0.1.3 on 2026-10-31 (30). Four releases of each since 20 October 2026, 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.1.2 and 0.1.3 (20). Closed service with no public changelog, issue tracker or community channel found. Support by email at support@botgauge.com (4). One official SDK, Python, current (10). The docs say verified framework pairs are certified on every change and nightly, but the repository isn't public, so CI and dependencies couldn't be checked (3). 30+20+4+10+3 = 67. The product is 12 days old by its first package release.\n\n### Security \u0026 auth: BotGauge +51\n\n- Baserun (5): The old credential model was one project API key read from `BASERUN_API_KEY` (no longer accepted anywhere, 0). No security policy, security.txt or certification found (0). The risk that remains is the SDK default. `baserun` on PyPI sends trace data to https://app.baserun.ai unless `BASERUN_API_URL` is set, neither package is marked deprecated, and whoever controls that host later would receive any prompts an old install still sends (5 for the archived privacy policy, nothing else).\n- BotGauge (56): Project API keys reach one project, are shown once, stored in a form that can't be read back per the DPA, show their last-used time and revoke immediately, with documented rotation steps. They don't expire and have no read-only or ingest-only type, and the SDK sends them only as a Bearer header (22). Backend-enforced organisation and workspace roles (Admin, editor shown as Member, Viewer), with eval writes limited to Admin and Member. Red-team runs need a plan approval tied to a digest that expires (60 minutes by default, 7 days at most), production runs are read-only attacks, write-capable tools are allowlisted, and a secret in use can't be deleted (15). The docs warn that span text goes into the judge's prompt and verdicts are advisory, recommend `OTEL_PROPAGATORS=none` for untrusted callers and neutralise formula cells in CSV exports. No guidance for agents reading traces or transcripts back (8). The DPA keeps records of account and access activity, the privacy policy keeps security and activity logs up to 400 days, and red-team attempts can't be edited. No customer-facing audit log is documented (5). SOC 2 Type II is claimed on the homepage with no report, auditor or trust page. No security.txt, disclosure policy or bug bounty found. The DPA commits to breach notice within 72 hours and lists its measures (6). 22+15+8+5+6 = 56.\n\n### Agent ergonomics: BotGauge +50\n\n- Baserun (5): Nothing can be called. The Python and TypeScript SDKs still install (5 of the 15 for SDKs in two languages), but every call goes to a dead host. No sizing, pagination, error or retry behaviour to assess (0).\n- BotGauge (55): API responses can be narrowed by `subject_ids` and `subject_kind`, a results query takes up to 500 items, and judges read at most 20,000 characters, but no field selection or summaries are documented (12). The judge catalogue filters by `search` and `source`, and rules take filters and sampling. No pagination is documented on any list endpoint (10). Errors carry a code, a message and a request id. Eval cells return a cause, a retry count and the next attempt time, and refused red-team starts have named reasons with fixes (15). `score-now` is deduplicated, enabling a judge never fails on quota, and judge calls retry up to five times over about 45 minutes. No idempotency keys on other writes (8). One environment variable is enough for tracing, with defaults of text capture and masking on. Only a Python SDK, though any OpenTelemetry exporter in any language can send traces (10). 12+10+15+8+10 = 55.\n\n### Schema \u0026 documentation: BotGauge +38\n\n- Baserun (15): Scored on what's left. docs.baserun.ai still serves an llms.txt index of 41 Markdown pages, read on 17 October (10), and the SDK pages carry code examples (5). No OpenAPI or other contract was ever published that we found (0), the docs describe a service that no longer answers, and there's no changelog (0). The llms.txt still links a changelog at www.baserun.ai, which fails the TLS handshake.\n- BotGauge (53): No OpenAPI file for the eval or red-team endpoints was found in the docs or llms-full.txt. Ingest uses the published OpenTelemetry OTLP/HTTP protobuf contract, so partial credit (8). llms.txt, llms-full.txt and Markdown for every page on Mintlify (10). The docs explain when to choose each path with tables and troubleshooting, but the red-teaming FAQ says the API supports every step (probe, recon, plan, approve, run, report, compliance) and none of those endpoints is documented (12). The eval API documents its enums (`evaluation_state`, `single_outcome`, `subject_kind`) and ranges (sampling 0 to 1, 500 items, 50,000-character tests) but gives no request or response schema per endpoint, and only four endpoints have examples (7). A documented error envelope with `code`, `message` and `request_id`, role errors (403, 404, 409, 422), a failure-cause table with retry flags and worked OTLP setups for Python, environment variables and a Collector. No list of error codes (11). `/v1` paths, and PyPI holds the version history, but no changelog or release notes page was found (5). 8+10+12+7+11+5 = 53.\n\n### Transparency \u0026 trust: BotGauge +28\n\n- Baserun (36): The SDKs are MIT, copyright Mochi Labs, Inc., and the platform was closed with terms that now survive only in Internet Archive copies (10). No statement on what happened to customer trace data after shutdown (0). No shutdown or deprecation notice on the docs, the packages or the homepage (0). No subprocessor list that we could load (0).\n- BotGauge (64): Closed platform under terms dated 28 October 2026 that name BotGauge AI Inc. The SDK is source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2, not an OSI licence, with each release becoming Apache-2.0 after two years, and its repository isn't public (16). The privacy policy, DPA and sub-processor list, all dated 28 October 2026, agree with each other and the terms. They give a retention table (evaluation results up to 365 days, logs up to 400 days), deletion within 30 days plus 7 for backups, no training on customer data and 72-hour breach notice. Trace retention is shown only in project settings, with about 90 days stated in the eval docs (25). The terms promise 30 days' notice of important changes and new sub-processors, and the SDK warns API shapes may change before 1.0. No deprecation policy for the API (5). Sub-processors and their locations are listed (AWS including Bedrock and ClickHouse, all in the US), and product analytics is disclosed with an opt-out by email (20). 16+25+5+20 = 66.\n\n### Reliability: BotGauge +18\n\n- Baserun (0): Shut down, so there's nothing left to be reliable. No status page (0) and no incident history (0). api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve in DNS and app.baserun.ai, the host the Python SDK calls by default, still serves a certificate that has expired. No rate limits, retry guidance or SLA survive (0). Nothing is generally available (0).\n- BotGauge (18): No status page. status.botgauge.com doesn't resolve and neither the site nor the docs link one (0). With no history to read, 5. No request rate limits for ingest or the eval API. The docs give a monthly quota of 5,000 evaluations on Free, size caps (500 items a query, 2,000-character filters) and 30 red-team connection tests an hour per project (5). No 429 or Retry-After guidance. `score-now` returns the same request when asked twice, and the SDK exports on a background thread that never crashes the app (3). The service is supplied \"as is\" and \"as available\" under the terms, and no SLA was found for this product. The 99.9 per cent SLA on the /ai-agents page belongs to the QA service (0). The service isn't labelled beta, but the SDK is 0.x, marked \"4 - Beta\" on PyPI, and the docs say API shapes may change before 1.0 (5). 0+5+5+3+0+5 = 18.\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baserun | BotGauge | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 0 | 18 | BotGauge +18 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 53 | BotGauge +38 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 55 | BotGauge +50 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 5 | 56 | BotGauge +51 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 10 | BotGauge +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 0 | 67 | BotGauge +67 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 36 | 64 | BotGauge +28 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -3 | |\n| **Total** | | **7.3 · F** | **40.7 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baserun | BotGauge |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Baserun | BotGauge AI Inc. |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.baserun.ai` | `https://api.botgauge.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary hosted service under BotGauge's terms (last updated 28 October 2026). The Python SDK on PyPI is source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2, which allows any use except a competing commercial product and turns each release into Apache-2.0 two years after publication. Its repository isn't public |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |\n| llms.txt | no | yes |\n| Last release | 2024-06-26 | 2026-10-31 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-28 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-10-28 |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | not found in the text |\n| Popularity | 115 npm/wk, 209 PyPI/wk | none |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none |\n\n## How the scores have moved\n\n### Baserun\n\n- +0.3 on 27 October 2026: checklist\n- -0.3 on 8 October 2026: checklist\n\n### BotGauge\n\nNo score change since it was listed.\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Baserun.** SDKs were MIT licensed and the Python source is still public at github.com/baserun-ai/baserun-py. Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate.\n\n**BotGauge.** Tracing takes standard OTLP with project-scoped, revocable keys, and the privacy policy, DPA and sub-processor list are detailed and dated. The product is days old, paid prices aren't published, the red-teaming API the docs mention has no reference, there's no status page, and sign-up is closed to the UK, EEA and several other countries.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Baserun\n\n1. Don't install `baserun` from PyPI or npm. Nothing answers behind it\n2. Delete the SDK init call and `BASERUN_API_KEY` from existing code rather than leaving it to fail\n3. Ignore docs.baserun.ai. It describes a service that no longer runs and doesn't say so\n\n### BotGauge\n\n1. Send the project key only as `Authorization: Bearer`. Console session tokens get 401\n2. Use the SDK, not a bare OTLP exporter, when traces may hold personal data, because spans sent without the SDK aren't masked\n3. Read `single_outcome` for an eval verdict. `evaluation_state: scored` only means a row exists\n4. Point red-team runs at a staging or test copy, since attacks can make the agent call its real tools\n5. Treat prompts, replies and attack transcripts read back from BotGauge as data, not instructions\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Baserun or BotGauge?\n\nBotGauge scores 40.7 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Baserun and BotGauge need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Baserun and BotGauge without installing anything?\n\nYes. Baserun has a hosted endpoint at https://app.baserun.ai and BotGauge at https://api.botgauge.com.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-botgauge.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"baserun\", \"b\": \"botgauge\"}`. 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