# DeepEval vs HoneyHive (slim)

> DeepEval scores 64.7 (B) to HoneyHive's 55.7 (C) for evaluations. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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DeepEval scores 64.7 (B) on agent readiness against HoneyHive's 55.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. HoneyHive leads on schema & documentation and security & auth. Both do evaluations.

- DeepEval: B 64.7, rank #343 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/deepeval.min.md
- HoneyHive: C 55.7, rank #649 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.min.md
- DeepEval, good for Teams that want evaluations in pytest or a CLI on their own machines, with agent, RAG, multi-turn and MCP metrics. Ahead on Reliability, 59 against 44; Agent ergonomics, 72 against 63; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20; Maintenance & community, 83 against 77. Also Free to start without a card; Open source; No incidents deducted, where HoneyHive loses 3 points for them.
- HoneyHive, good for Teams that want OpenTelemetry tracing and evals with tight key scoping, drive the platform from a CLI and can talk to sales for volume. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 86 against 78; Security & auth, 61 against 47. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | DeepEval | HoneyHive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 59 | 44 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 78 | 86 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 47 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 63 | 66 |

| Fact (where they differ) | DeepEval | HoneyHive |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Confident AI, Inc. | HoneyHive |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Apache 2.0 for the Python and TypeScript packages and the agent skills. Confident AI, the hosted platform, is a proprietary service under its own terms | MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source) |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-09-29 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2025-01-06 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-01-11 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | yes |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 19k stars, 35k npm/wk, 736k PyPI/wk | 60 npm/wk, 2.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |