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Spanlens

Spanlens, an MIT-licensed LLM observability platform, offers a drop-in replacement for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini SDKs, providing full visibility into LLM requests without agents or infrastructure setup. It supports multiple providers and frameworks, is fully self-hostable, and offers a free self-hosted option with no usage cap, positioning itself as a LangSmith alternative with flat monthly pricing.

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Spanlens is an MIT-licensed LLM observability platform that gives you full visibility into every request your app makes to OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini. It works as a drop-in replacement for the provider SDK, so you swap one import and start seeing data immediately. No agents to run, no infrastructure to wire up.

It's built for teams shipping LLM-powered products who need to answer real questions fast: why did the bill spike, which agent step is slow, did the new prompt actually improve quality?

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Spanlens supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Mistral, Azure, Bedrock, and Vertex, plus framework integrations for LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, and LangGraph. It also ingests OpenTelemetry spans over OTLP/HTTP.

For teams that can't send prompt data to a third party, it's fully self-hostable. Prompts and completions stay inside your own network. Data can be exported as JSON, CSV, or Parquet, or streamed to S3 or BigQuery.

If you're evaluating [LangSmith alternatives](/alternatives/langsmith), Spanlens covers similar ground with a flat monthly pricing model rather than per-seat fees, and a free self-hosted option that has no usage cap.

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