Comet

Comet

Use Opik to trace, evaluate, optimize, and monitor LLM applications and agents in development and production.

Category:AI Monitoring
freemium
Last Updated 8/28/2026

About Comet

Comet is an AI developer platform centered on Opik, its end-to-end observability system for LLM applications and agents. Teams record traces across retrieval, tool calls, model responses, and user feedback, then inspect individual runs to find failures. Opik also supports human annotation, test suites, more than 30 LLM-as-a-judge metrics, production monitoring, cost tracking, prompt optimization, and an agent that can propose code fixes from trace and evaluation results. It suits developers who need one workflow for testing before release and monitoring after deployment. A free cloud version lowers the cost of evaluation, while the open-source Opik repository provides another adoption path. Teams should still budget time to instrument applications, define useful evaluation criteria, review automated scores, and validate generated fixes before merging them. Comet also documents experiment tracking, custom visualizations, artifacts, model registry workflows, CI/CD webhooks, and deployment options that include VPC and on-premises environments for enterprise use.

Best for

Developers who need a free entry point for LLM observability
AI teams that want testing and production traces in one workflow
Enterprises evaluating VPC or on-premises deployment

Best use cases

Debug retrieval and tool-selection failures from recorded traces

Compare agent behavior with automated metrics and human review

Track production performance and model costs after deployment

Compare before choosing

Consider Comet when trace-driven code fixes matter to the workflow

Compare instrumentation effort and supported integrations with existing tooling

Confirm paid terms directly if the free cloud option will not cover the deployment

Features

Trace and debug agents

Log agent steps such as retrieval, tool selection, model output, and feedback, then inspect individual traces to locate failures.

Evaluate LLM behavior

Score traces with test suites, human review, and more than 30 LLM-as-a-judge metrics before and after release.

Optimize prompts and code

Run prompt optimization algorithms and use Ollie to turn trace and test results into proposed code changes with regression testing.

Pros

  • The Free Cloud Version reduces upfront cost for teams testing LLM observability.
  • Tracing, evaluation, prompt optimization, and production monitoring can share one workflow.
  • VPC and on-premises options support enterprises with stricter deployment requirements.

Cons

  • Teams must instrument applications before traces can explain agent behavior.
  • Automated scores and proposed code fixes still require human review before production use.
  • Paid plan prices require direct confirmation, which makes advance budget comparisons harder.

Pricing Plans

Free Cloud Version

Free
  • Cloud access to Opik
  • LLM tracing and observability
  • Evaluation and testing workflows

* Pricing information is for reference only. Please refer to the latest announcement on Comet's official website.

FAQ

Comet provides Opik for tracing, evaluating, testing, optimizing, and monitoring LLM applications and agents across development and production.
Yes. Comet links to a Free Cloud Version of Opik, and Opik also has an open-source GitHub repository.
Comet documentation describes virtual private cloud and on-premises environments as supported enterprise deployment options.

Tool Information

DeveloperComet
Release Date7/20/2026
Pricingfreemium