{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "baserun", "name": "Baserun", "vendor": "Baserun", "vendorUrl": "https://baserun.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Discontinued LLM testing and monitoring platform with Python and JavaScript SDKs for tracing model calls.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserun.json", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://app.baserun.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "baserun" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "baserun" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "`BASERUN_API_KEY` per project, read by the SDKs. No service is left to accept it.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "No longer sold. The last archived pricing page listed Starter free with 10,000 traces a month, 7 days of retention and 2 users, Pro $49 a seat with 100,000 traces then $10 per 10,000 and 30 days of retention, and Enterprise custom (https://web.archive.org/web/20240718042849/https://www.baserun.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$49 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 115, "pypiWeekly": 209, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.baserun.ai", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals", "obs.prompts" ], "tags": [ "closed-source", "retired", "python", "typescript" ], "lastRelease": "2024-06-26", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 7, "grade": "F", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "Shut down 2024-09-30, so out of the ranking", "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 17, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 5, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 15, "security": 5, "transparency": 33 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "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.", "strengths": [ "SDKs were MIT licensed and the Python source is still public at github.com/baserun-ai/baserun-py", "Docs remain readable at docs.baserun.ai, with an llms.txt index of 41 pages, for anyone migrating old code" ], "weaknesses": [ "Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate", "No shutdown notice on the docs, the homepage or either package, and neither package is marked deprecated", "Python SDK defaults to https://app.baserun.ai, so old installs keep trying to send trace data there", "No announced data export, deletion statement or migration path", "Last SDK releases were PyPI 2.0.9 on 2024-06-26 and npm 2.1.3" ], "agentNotes": [ "Don't install `baserun` from PyPI or npm. Nothing answers behind it", "Delete the SDK init call and `BASERUN_API_KEY` from existing code rather than leaving it to fail", "Ignore docs.baserun.ai. It describes a service that no longer runs and doesn't say so" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 1, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "F", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 5, "maintenance": 0, "payments": 0, "reliability": 0, "schema": 15, "security": 5, "transparency": 10 }, "provenanceScore": 56 }, "connect": { "http": "# Retired. baserun.ai and api.baserun.ai no longer answer.\npip install baserun # or: npm i baserun" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/baserun" }, "area": "developer", "retired": "2024-09-30", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Pro plan (discontinued)", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 49, "note": "100,000 traces a month then $10 per 10,000, last listed July 2024" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Mochi Labs, Inc.", "domain": "baserun.ai", "domainRegistered": "2023-06-20", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240908185548/https://www.baserun.ai/terms", "privacy": "https://web.archive.org/web/20240908185719/https://www.baserun.ai/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "Legal entity from the SDK licence (MIT, copyright 2023 Mochi Labs, Inc.) on PyPI and in github.com/baserun-ai/baserun-py", "On 2026-10-17 app.baserun.ai still served an expired certificate, api.baserun.ai didn't answer, and both baserun.ai and www.baserun.ai failed the TLS handshake, so /.well-known/security.txt couldn't be read", "RDAP on 2026-10-17 shows baserun.ai registered on 2023-06-20 and paid up to 2027-06-20, with the record last changed on 2026-08-12, so the domain is still held" ], "score": 56 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.json" }, "answer": "Navige scores 42.8 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "b": { "slug": "navige", "name": "Navige", "vendor": "Navige Ltd", "vendorUrl": "https://navige.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Navige is a hosted gateway between AI agents and the model APIs and MCP tools they call. It prices each call per business job, enforces spend caps, policies and approvals, and can cache or reroute calls to cut cost.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/navige.json", "repo": "https://github.com/SMJAI/trustloop-sdk", "license": "Proprietary hosted service under Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). The `navige` npm SDK and the `n8n-nodes-navige` node are MIT", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.navige.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "npm", "name": "navige" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "n8n-nodes-navige" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Self-serve. A person signs up at app.navige.ai/signup, confirms their email and creates an agent in the console, which shows an `nv_` key once. Each key names one agent in one organisation. Send it in `x-navige-key` (the only header accepted on the model proxy, where `Authorization` carries the provider key), as `Authorization: Bearer` on `/enforce` and `/usage`, or as `?api_key=` for MCP clients. An agent can hold up to ten keys, each listed by prefix and last use, and can be given an expiry. Revocation can take up to a minute to apply because key lookups are cached. The Terms forbid creating accounts by automation.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Watchtower is free with no card and no time limit, and records and prices every call, with the kill switch and spend caps, but changes no traffic. Paid use switches on the levers and enforcing policies and costs the greater of $9 a month or 20 per cent of measured savings, charged in arrears. Modelled savings are never billed. No seat, per-agent or setup fees and no markup on tokens, which the customer pays to the provider (https://navige.ai/pricing, checked 2026-10-17). The Terms leave exact prices, payment terms, taxes and refunds as TBD.", "priceSummary": "$9 / mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs, the pricing page, the Terms or the DPA. Paid plans are billed through Stripe (checked 2026-10-17).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 11, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-17" }, "docsUrl": "https://app.navige.ai/docs", "capabilities": [ "obs.gateway", "obs.traces", "hitl.approve", "hitl.audit", "guard.policy" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "no-card", "mcp", "openai-compatible", "anthropic-compatible", "typescript", "closed-source", "status-page", "new" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-07", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 42.8, "grade": "E", "agentReady": false, "rank": 1012, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 1133, "categoryRank": 16, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 35, "reliability": 28, "schema": 42, "security": 53, "transparency": 50 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-17" }, "negative": -2, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-10-17. The privacy policy (effective 6 October 2026) says 'Our website and dashboard do not use tracking cookies or third-party analytics.' The navige.ai home, pricing and about pages load Google Analytics (`gtag/js?id=G-G5NVP8M2BB`, configured inline) and Framer's events script, checked first-hand on 17 October 2026. Counted as a misleading claim (-2). The dashboard at app.navige.ai was not checked for analytics (https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy, https://navige.ai/)." ], "verdict": "Setup is a base-URL change, keys are per agent and hashed, and the docs state failure behaviour per action class. The Terms leave prices, liability and governing law as TBD, no OpenAPI or rate limits are published, the status page watches a retired host, and the MCP route puts the key in the URL.", "bestFor": "A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.", "strengths": [ "Joining is a base-URL change and one header. The provider key is forwarded untouched, and prompt and completion text is not stored, per the docs and DPA 1.2", "Failure defaults are documented per action class. Reads fail open, write, destructive and financial calls fail closed, and degraded decisions are logged with a cause", "Agent keys are stored as SHA-256 hashes, can expire and be revoked, number up to ten per agent, and a kill switch and spend caps work on the free tier", "Watchtower is free with no card or time limit, and paid use is a $9 floor or 20 per cent of measured savings, never modelled ones", "Decisions can be checked without an account through signed receipts, a published Ed25519 signing key and optional Polygon anchoring" ], "weaknesses": [ "The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD", "No OpenAPI document, llms.txt, changelog or published rate limits were found", "The status page monitors only `api.trustloop.live/health`, a retired host shown down since 26 July 2026, while its header says all services are online", "The MCP route, and the proxy fallback for clients without custom headers, put the agent key in the URL query string", "The privacy policy says the website uses no third-party analytics while navige.ai loads Google Analytics, and its plan retention periods contradict DPA 1.2" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the Navige key in `x-navige-key` on the proxy. `Authorization` carries the provider key there, and a Navige key in it fails and is forwarded upstream", "Act only on `allow` or `approved` from `/enforce`. Treat `error` as neither, and read `unavailable` to tell a malformed request from a Navige outage", "Send `x-navige-transaction` with one id per job, reused across that job's retries, so calls group into one transaction and retries are not counted twice", "On a 429 from the proxy, check for a blocking budget before retrying. Navige returns 429 when a monthly budget is reached and passes provider errors through without retrying", "Expect Claude Code traffic to get measurement, budgets and the kill switch only. Context trimming, routing, the output ceiling and prompt caching are switched off for it" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "E", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 42.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 61, "maintenance": 51, "payments": 35, "reliability": 28, "schema": 42, "security": 53, "transparency": 35 }, "provenanceScore": 65 }, "connect": { "install": "npm install navige", "http": "curl https://api.navige.ai/proxy/openai/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY\" \\\n -H \"x-navige-key: $NAVIGE_KEY\" \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\"model\":\"gpt-5.1\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"ping\"}]}'", "config": { "mcpServers": { "navige": { "url": "https://api.navige.ai/mcp?api_key=nv_your_key_here" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.gateway", "tool": "https://letme.dev/navige" }, "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Paid plan minimum", "unit": "month", "usd": 9, "note": "Charged when measured savings are under $45 in the month. Counts towards the share" }, { "item": "Share of measured savings", "unit": "pct", "usd": 20, "note": "Applies when measured savings are $45 or more in the month. Modelled savings are never billed" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Navige Ltd", "domain": "navige.ai", "domainRegistered": "2026-07-25", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/terms", "privacy": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "https://status.navige.ai", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-17", "notes": [ "The Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026), the privacy policy (effective 6 October 2026) and the DPA (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026) name Navige Ltd, a United Kingdom company. The Terms leave governing law as TBD. The DPA chooses England and Wales.", "The privacy policy says its current version is at navige.ai/privacy. That path was not in the site map, and the policy read is at app.navige.ai/legal/privacy.", "The security page (app.navige.ai/legal/security) points reporters to /.well-known/security.txt. That path returned 404 on navige.ai, app.navige.ai and api.navige.ai on 17 October 2026.", "RDAP gives navige.ai a registration date of 25 July 2026. The earlier name's domain, trustloop.live, was registered on 27 January 2026 and redirects to navige.ai.", "No changelog was found. navige.ai/changelog and navige.ai/blog returned 404, though the footer lists a blog.", "The status page monitors the retired host api.trustloop.live, not api.navige.ai." ], "score": 65 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.json", "live": { "slug": "navige", "probe": { "target": "https://api.navige.ai", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:48.435098789Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 205, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 204, "p95ms24h": 244, "samples24h": 24, "samples30d": 24, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-17", "probes": 21, "ok": 21 }, { "date": "2026-10-18", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.navige.ai", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:51:24.417606599Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://navige.ai/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T23:06:30.690270454Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "77131c50c58c" }, { "url": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:56:18.751833966Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "74f78f3a6a9a" }, { "url": "https://app.navige.ai/legal/terms", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-17T22:56:20.942019182Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "6ff5843b8337" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-18T00:14:48.435098789Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Baserun", "b": "Navige Ltd", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://app.baserun.ai", "b": "https://api.navige.ai", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP", "b": "HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "API key", "b": "API key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Freemium", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary hosted service under Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). The `navige` npm SDK and the `n8n-nodes-navige` node are MIT", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "2024-06-26", "b": "2026-09-07", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "couldn't be read", "b": "", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "115 npm/wk, 209 PyPI/wk", "b": "11 npm/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "1/5 (2)", "b": "2/5 (4)", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Navige scores 42.8 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7 (F), and leads in every scored category.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Baserun or Navige?" }, { "answer": "Both need an API key.", "question": "Do Baserun and Navige need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Baserun has a hosted endpoint at https://app.baserun.ai and Navige at https://api.navige.ai.", "question": "Can an agent call Baserun and Navige without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": null, "also": null, "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, 28 against 0", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 42 against 15", "Agent ergonomics, 61 against 5", "Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 5", "Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 51 against 0", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 50 against 33" ], "also": [ "Still running. Baserun has shut down", "Free to start without a card", "Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.0 against 1.0 out of 5" ], "goodFor": "A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.", "slug": "navige", "watchFor": "The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD" } ], "job": { "capability": "obs.traces", "name": "Agent tracing" }, "others": [ { "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-navige.json", "title": "Arize Phoenix vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-navige" }, { "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-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/braintrust-vs-navige.json", "title": "Braintrust API + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepeval-vs-navige.json", "title": "DeepEval vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/deepeval-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-navige.json", "title": "Galileo API + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-navige.json", "title": "Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-navige.json", "title": "HoneyHive vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-navige.json", "title": "Laminar API + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langfuse-vs-navige.json", "title": "Langfuse API + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langfuse-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langsmith-vs-navige.json", "title": "LangSmith API + MCP vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langsmith-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langwatch-vs-navige.json", "title": "LangWatch vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langwatch-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mlflow-tracing-vs-navige.json", "title": "MLflow Tracing vs Navige", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/mlflow-tracing-vs-navige" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-prefactor.json", "title": "Navige vs Prefactor", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-prefactor" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-wandb-weave.json", "title": "Navige vs W\u0026B Weave", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/navige-vs-wandb-weave" }, { "json": 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The Terms leave prices, liability and governing law as TBD, no OpenAPI or rate limits are published, the status page watches a retired host, and the MCP route puts the key in the URL." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-navige.min.md" }, "markdown": "Baserun shut down on 2024-09-30. Navige scores 42.8 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do agent tracing.\n\n- Baserun: grade F, 7/100, rank retired, not ranked. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/baserun.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/baserun.json\n- Navige: grade E, 42.8/100, rank #1012 of 1133. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/navige.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/navige.json\n- Best agent tracing, monitoring and evaluation tools: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/agent-observability/index.md\n- All 136 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\nWatch for: Service offline since late 2024. api.baserun.ai doesn't resolve and app.baserun.ai serves an expired certificate\n\n### Navige (E)\n\nGood for: A team running agents on its own provider keys that wants cost per business job, spend caps, a kill switch and approval holds in one proxy, starting free.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 28 against 0\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 42 against 15\n- Agent ergonomics, 61 against 5\n- Security \u0026 auth, 53 against 5\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 35 against 0\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 51 against 0\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 50 against 33\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Still running. Baserun has shut down\n- Free to start without a card\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.0 against 1.0 out of 5\n\nWatch for: The Terms (version 1.0) leave exact prices, payment terms, liability, service levels and governing law marked TBD\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Baserun | Navige | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 0 | 28 | Navige +28 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 15 | 42 | Navige +27 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 5 | 61 | Navige +56 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 5 | 53 | Navige +48 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 0 | 35 | Navige +35 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 0 | 51 | Navige +51 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 33 | 50 | Navige +17 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **7 · F** | **42.8 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Baserun | Navige |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Baserun | Navige Ltd |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.baserun.ai` | `https://api.navige.ai` |\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 Navige's Terms of Use (version 1.0, effective 13 October 2026) and Data Processing Agreement (version 1.2, effective 14 October 2026). The `navige` npm SDK and the `n8n-nodes-navige` node are MIT |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2024-06-26 | 2026-09-07 |\n| Terms last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | |\n| Customer content may train models | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | couldn't be read | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | couldn't be read | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | couldn't be read | |\n| Popularity | 115 npm/wk, 209 PyPI/wk | 11 npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | 2/5 (4) |\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**Navige.** Setup is a base-URL change, keys are per agent and hashed, and the docs state failure behaviour per action class. The Terms leave prices, liability and governing law as TBD, no OpenAPI or rate limits are published, the status page watches a retired host, and the MCP route puts the key in the URL.\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### Navige\n\n1. Send the Navige key in `x-navige-key` on the proxy. `Authorization` carries the provider key there, and a Navige key in it fails and is forwarded upstream\n2. Act only on `allow` or `approved` from `/enforce`. Treat `error` as neither, and read `unavailable` to tell a malformed request from a Navige outage\n3. Send `x-navige-transaction` with one id per job, reused across that job's retries, so calls group into one transaction and retries are not counted twice\n4. On a 429 from the proxy, check for a blocking budget before retrying. Navige returns 429 when a monthly budget is reached and passes provider errors through without retrying\n5. Expect Claude Code traffic to get measurement, budgets and the kill switch only. Context trimming, routing, the output ceiling and prompt caching are switched off for it\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Baserun or Navige?\n\nNavige scores 42.8 (E) on agent readiness against Baserun's 7 (F), and leads in every scored category.\n\n### Do Baserun and Navige need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Baserun and Navige without installing anything?\n\nYes. 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