{ "data": { "a": { "slug": "honeyhive", "name": "HoneyHive", "vendor": "HoneyHive", "vendorUrl": "https://www.honeyhive.ai", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "Hosted tracing, evaluation, datasets and prompt management for agents, built on OpenTelemetry.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeyhive.json", "repo": "https://github.com/honeyhiveai/python-sdk", "license": "MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source)", "transports": [ "http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "honeyhive" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "honeyhive" } ], "auth": "api-key", "authNotes": "Bearer API keys in four types. Project keys (`hh_`) and read-only project keys (`hh_ro_`) for the data plane, ingestion keys (`hh_ingst_`) that can only send traces and events to one project, and fine-grained keys (`hh_fgcp_`) for the control plane, scoped to an organisation or workspace with chosen permissions and a required expiry of at most 365 days. Data plane at api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai, control plane at api.cp.us.honeyhive.ai. Since 24 September 2026 invalid keys and permission failures return 404. Self-hosted deployments can use an OIDC identity provider.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Free Developer plan with 10,000 events a month, up to 5 users and 30-day retention. An event is one trace span or one metric label. Enterprise is custom with unlimited users and workspaces, custom retention and self-hosting. No self-serve paid tier is published (https://www.honeyhive.ai/pricing).", "priceSummary": "Freemium", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": 60, "pypiWeekly": 2105, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.honeyhive.ai", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.honeyhive.ai/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/honeyhiveai/honeyhive-openapi/main/data_plane_openapi.yaml", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals", "obs.prompts", "obs.datasets" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "closed-source", "enterprise", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-29", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 55.9, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 310, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 7, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 20, "reliability": 44, "schema": 86, "security": 61, "transparency": 68 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -3, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-09-22 to 2026-09-24. The API stopped returning 401 for invalid, revoked or expired keys and 403 for permission failures, and now answers 404 for all of them, on every client version. It was announced in the CLI 1.7.0 changelog on 22 September and the product changelog on 24 September, with no deprecation window. -3 (https://github.com/honeyhiveai/honeyhive-cli/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md)" ], "verdict": "Read-only (`hh_ro_`), ingestion-only (`hh_ingst_`) and expiring fine-grained (`hh_fgcp_`) API keys. Status page showed 80.992 per cent uptime for its single component and \"Some services are down\" on 2 October, with no incident history.", "strengths": [ "Read-only (`hh_ro_`), ingestion-only (`hh_ingst_`) and expiring fine-grained (`hh_fgcp_`) API keys", "Public OpenAPI 3.1 specs for data plane and control plane under MIT, with an oasdiff-generated changelog", "CLI generated one to one from the specs, plus agent skills and Markdown docs", "Python SDK 1.6.1 and CLI 1.7.0 released in the last two weeks of September 2026", "Free plan with 30-day retention, 1,000 requests a minute and no card" ], "weaknesses": [ "Status page showed 80.992 per cent uptime for its single component and \"Some services are down\" on 2 October, with no incident history", "No MCP server for trace data, only a docs search MCP", "No self-serve paid tier, only Free and a sales-led Enterprise plan", "Since 24 September 2026 invalid keys and permission failures return 404, with no deprecation window", "Event search returns up to 1,000 rows by default with no field selection" ], "agentNotes": [ "Give the agent a read-only `hh_ro_` key for analysis and a separate `hh_ingst_` key for sending traces", "Treat a 404 as possibly a bad, revoked or expired key before assuming the record is missing", "Set `limit` on `POST /v1/events/search`. The default is 1,000 rows", "Use the CLI (`brew tap honeyhiveai/tap \u0026\u0026 brew install honeyhive`) from a coding agent. It maps one command to each API endpoint", "Control plane commands need an `hh_fgcp_` key and the control plane host api.cp.us.honeyhive.ai" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 2.5, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 55.9 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 63, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 20, "reliability": 44, "schema": 86, "security": 61, "transparency": 54 }, "provenanceScore": 82 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai/v1/datasets -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HH_API_KEY\"" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/honeyhive" }, "area": "developer", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "HoneyHive Inc.", "domain": "honeyhive.ai", "domainRegistered": "2022-07-28", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, 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"2026-10-05T00:15:24.569344851Z" } }, "b": { "slug": "langsmith", "name": "LangSmith API + MCP", "vendor": "LangChain", "vendorUrl": "https://www.langchain.com/langsmith", "kind": "http-api", "category": "agent-observability", "summary": "LangChain's hosted tracing, evaluation, prompt hub and dataset platform, framework-agnostic with Python and TypeScript SDKs and OpenTelemetry ingest.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langsmith.json", "repo": "https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-sdk", "license": "MIT (SDK only, platform closed source)", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.smith.langchain.com", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langsmith" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "langsmith" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "API key in the `X-Api-Key` header (personal or service keys, workspace-scoped). The remote MCP server uses OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration for interactive clients, or the same API key header for headless ones.", "pricing": "freemium", "pricingNotes": "Developer is free for 1 seat with 5,000 base traces a month. Plus $39 a seat a month with 10,000 base traces, unlimited seats and one free small deployment. Enterprise custom. Beyond the included traces, a base trace costs 0.005 LSU ($5 per 1,000 at $1 an LSU) with 14-day retention, and upgrading to an extended trace with 180-day retention adds 0.0025 LSU. Compute for deployments, sandboxes and tuned evaluators is billed in LCUs at $1.50 each. Self-hosting and BYOC are Enterprise only (https://www.langchain.com/pricing).", "priceSummary": "$39 / seat-mo", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": 1064, "npmWeekly": 7588622, "pypiWeekly": 17835288, "asOf": "2026-09-30" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.langchain.com/langsmith/observability", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.langchain.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://api.smith.langchain.com/openapi.json", "capabilities": [ "obs.traces", "obs.evals", "obs.prompts", "obs.datasets", "obs.gateway" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "freemium", "closed-source", "mcp", "llms-txt", "openapi", "python", "typescript", "enterprise", "webhooks" ], "lastRelease": "2026-09-30", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 71.3, "grade": "BB", "agentReady": true, "rank": 85, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 452, "categoryRank": 3, "methodology": "0.3", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 81, "schema": 86, "security": 77, "transparency": 78 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-01" }, "negative": -4, "negativeNotes": [ "2026-02-09 to 2026-06-19. Five published advisories in the LangSmith SDK. The most serious, GHSA-f4xh-w4cj-qxq8 (CVE-2026-59152, 19 June), let anyone who could send HTTP requests to a server running `TracingMiddleware` read arbitrary files from it into trace attachments, fixed in Python 0.8.18. GitHub's list rates it critical and the advisory scores it CVSS 5.0. The others cover untrusted public prompt manifests (high, 7 May), streaming tokens bypassing output redaction (moderate, 14 April), prototype pollution (moderate, 9 April) and SSRF through tracing headers (moderate, 9 February). All fixed and disclosed in public, so -4 (https://github.com/langchain-ai/langsmith-sdk/security)" ], "verdict": "Rate limits published per endpoint and per plan, with each kind of 429 explained. Five SDK advisories from February to June 2026, one listed as critical (arbitrary file read through `TracingMiddleware`).", "strengths": [ "Rate limits published per endpoint and per plan, with each kind of 429 explained", "Written deprecation policy, six months on cloud, with `Deprecation` and `Sunset` headers on deprecated endpoints", "Remote MCP with OAuth 2.1, read-only in practice, and `fetch_runs` paging by a 25,000-character budget", "Workspace-scoped service keys with expiry, and audit logs queryable by API on Enterprise", "SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA and GDPR, regions in the US, EU and APAC, and SDK advisories published with CVEs" ], "weaknesses": [ "Five SDK advisories from February to June 2026, one listed as critical (arbitrary file read through `TracingMiddleware`)", "Base traces keep 14 days, and extended retention was capped at 180 days with about a week's notice", "Closed-source platform, self-hosting, BYOC and key roles are Enterprise only", "Four MCP tools named like writes (`create_dataset`, `run_experiment` and others) only return documentation", "No uptime SLA found below Enterprise's support SLA" ], "agentNotes": [ "Batch run reads. `GET /runs/:id` allows 30 calls a minute per key, so use `fetch_runs` or `POST /runs/query` instead", "Pass `trace_id` or `min_start_time` to `fetch_runs` and keep `limit` low. Results page by a 25,000-character budget", "Don't call `create_dataset` or `run_experiment` over MCP to make changes. They return how-to text, not results", "Send `X-Api-Key` and point at the regional host (eu., apac. or aws.api.smith.langchain.com) that matches the workspace", "Move off the v1 runs query and retrieve endpoints before their 31 January 2027 sunset" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 2, "avgRating": 3, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "BB", "methodology": "0.3", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 71.3 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 76, "maintenance": 85, "payments": 40, "reliability": 81, "schema": 86, "security": 77, "transparency": 70 }, "provenanceScore": 86 }, "connect": { "http": "curl https://api.smith.langchain.com/api/v1/sessions -H \"X-Api-Key: $LANGSMITH_API_KEY\"", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http langsmith https://api.smith.langchain.com/mcp" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces", "tool": "https://letme.dev/langsmith" }, "sameCompany": [ "langgraph" ], "area": "developer", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "Plus plan", "unit": "seat-month", "usd": 39, "note": "10,000 base traces a month included" }, { "item": "Base traces", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 5, "note": "0.005 LSU per trace at $1 an LSU, 14-day retention" }, { "item": "Extended trace upgrade", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 2.5, "note": "0.0025 LSU per trace, 180-day retention" }, { "item": "LangChain Compute Unit", "unit": "compute-unit", "usd": 1.5, "note": "deployments, sandboxes, Engine and tuned evaluators" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "LangChain, Inc.", "domain": "langchain.com", "domainRegistered": "2019-12-03", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.langchain.com/terms-of-service", "privacy": "https://www.langchain.com/privacy-policy", "statusPage": "https://status.smith.langchain.com", "changelog": "https://docs.langchain.com/langsmith/changelog", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-09-30", "score": 86 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.json", "live": { "slug": "langsmith", "probe": { "target": "https://api.smith.langchain.com", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:25.475533494Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 137, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 144, "p95ms24h": 179, "samples24h": 272, "samples30d": 1105, "days": [ { "date": "2026-09-30", "probes": 35, "ok": 35 }, { "date": "2026-10-01", "probes": 276, "ok": 276 }, { "date": "2026-10-02", "probes": 248, "ok": 248 }, { "date": "2026-10-03", "probes": 271, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-04", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 3, "ok": 3 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.smith.langchain.com", "indicator": "unknown", "summary": "no machine-readable status found", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:11.732931079Z" }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "langchain-ai/langsmith-sdk", "version": "v0.14.4", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:25.515882778Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "langsmith", "version": "0.10.8", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:24.686804575Z" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "langsmith", "version": "0.14.4", "released": "2026-10-02", "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:31:24.566611748Z" } ], "githubStars": 1067, "npmWeekly": 8458958, "pypiWeekly": 18555370, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://langchain.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:56.149171337Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.langchain.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:57.813298707Z" }, "domain": { "domain": "langchain.com", "registered": "2019-12-03", "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/langchain.com", "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:04:29.722113647Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://docs.langchain.com/langsmith/changelog", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:44.062855903Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "2c81953979b2" }, { "url": "https://www.langchain.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:56.911482719Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-02T15:27:03.289812971Z", "fingerprint": "27094c5a18c8" }, { "url": "https://www.langchain.com/privacy-policy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:58.933650784Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "83d57e07b1e6" }, { "url": "https://www.langchain.com/terms-of-service", "kind": "terms", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:51:00.937320286Z", "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z", "fingerprint": "bafbaf0129ca" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T00:15:25.475533494Z" } }, "summary": "LangSmith API + MCP has a score of 71.3 (BB) against HoneyHive's 55.9 (C). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is reliability, 37 points." }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langsmith", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langsmith.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langsmith.md", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langsmith.min.md" }, "markdown": "LangSmith API + MCP has a score of 71.3 (BB) against HoneyHive's 55.9 (C). Both do obs traces. The largest gap is reliability, 37 points.\n\n- HoneyHive: grade C, 55.9/100, rank #310 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/honeyhive.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/honeyhive.json\n- LangSmith API + MCP: grade BB, 71.3/100, rank #85 of 452. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langsmith.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langsmith.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick HoneyHive for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick LangSmith API + MCP for reliability (+37), agent ergonomics (+13), security \u0026 auth (+16), payments \u0026 pricing (+20), maintenance \u0026 community (+8), transparency \u0026 trust (+10).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | HoneyHive | LangSmith API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 44 | 81 | LangSmith API + MCP +37 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 86 | 86 | even |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 63 | 76 | LangSmith API + MCP +13 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 61 | 77 | LangSmith API + MCP +16 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 40 | LangSmith API + MCP +20 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 77 | 85 | LangSmith API + MCP +8 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 68 | 78 | LangSmith API + MCP +10 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -3 | -4 | |\n| **Total** | | **55.9 · C** | **71.3 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | HoneyHive | LangSmith API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | HoneyHive | LangChain |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.dp1.us.honeyhive.ai` | `https://api.smith.langchain.com` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | MIT (SDK, CLI and OpenAPI specs only, platform closed source) | MIT (SDK only, platform closed source) |\n| Tools exposed | none | none |\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 | yes | yes |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-30 |\n| Popularity | 60 npm/wk, 2.1k PyPI/wk | 1.1k stars, 7.6M npm/wk, 17.8M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2.5/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**HoneyHive.** Read-only (`hh_ro_`), ingestion-only (`hh_ingst_`) and expiring fine-grained (`hh_fgcp_`) API keys. Status page showed 80.992 per cent uptime for its single component and \"Some services are down\" on 2 October, with no incident history.\n\n**LangSmith API + MCP.** Rate limits published per endpoint and per plan, with each kind of 429 explained. Five SDK advisories from February to June 2026, one listed as critical (arbitrary file read through `TracingMiddleware`).\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### HoneyHive\n\n1. Give the agent a read-only `hh_ro_` key for analysis and a separate `hh_ingst_` key for sending traces\n2. Treat a 404 as possibly a bad, revoked or expired key before assuming the record is missing\n3. Set `limit` on `POST /v1/events/search`. The default is 1,000 rows\n4. Use the CLI (`brew tap honeyhiveai/tap \u0026\u0026 brew install honeyhive`) from a coding agent. It maps one command to each API endpoint\n5. Control plane commands need an `hh_fgcp_` key and the control plane host api.cp.us.honeyhive.ai\n\n### LangSmith API + MCP\n\n1. Batch run reads. `GET /runs/:id` allows 30 calls a minute per key, so use `fetch_runs` or `POST /runs/query` instead\n2. Pass `trace_id` or `min_start_time` to `fetch_runs` and keep `limit` low. Results page by a 25,000-character budget\n3. Don't call `create_dataset` or `run_experiment` over MCP to make changes. They return how-to text, not results\n4. Send `X-Api-Key` and point at the regional host (eu., apac. or aws.api.smith.langchain.com) that matches the workspace\n5. Move off the v1 runs query and retrieve endpoints before their 31 January 2027 sunset\n\n## Other comparisons with HoneyHive or LangSmith API + MCP\n\n- [Arize Phoenix vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Baserun vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Baserun vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-laminar.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [HoneyHive vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-respan.md)\n- [Laminar API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Langfuse API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langfuse-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [LangSmith API + MCP vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langsmith-vs-respan.md)\n", "meta": { "attribution": "Anchor Terminal (https://www.anchorterminal.com)", "docs": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/docs/", "generatedAt": "2026-10-05", "license": "CC-BY-4.0", "method": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/benchmark/", "methodology": "0.3", "openapi": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/openapi.json", "preview": false, "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run" }, "page": { "breadcrumbs": [ { "name": "Home", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/" }, { "name": "Compare", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/" }, { "name": "HoneyHive vs LangSmith API + MCP", "url": "" } ], "description": "LangSmith API + MCP has a score of 71.3 (BB) against HoneyHive's 55.9 (C). 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