Outgrowing Braintrust for production agents?
Braintrust is great for evals. But production agent observability needs more — full-stack tracing, infra correlation, and predictable pricing at scale. Oodle delivers all three at $10 per million spans.
Oodle can help you if
- ✓You run agents in production and need real-time tracing at scale
- ✓You need LLM traces correlated with backend infrastructure
- ✓You want one platform for traces, logs, metrics, and APM
- ✓You prefer OpenTelemetry over proprietary logging SDKs
- ✓You need predictable costs that don't scale per-log
Oodle is probably not for you if
- —You only need offline evals and prompt experimentation
- —You want a built-in proxy/gateway for model routing
- —You're at early stage with low volume where per-log pricing is cheap
Why teams choose Oodle over Braintrust
Braintrust excels at evals and experimentation. Oodle adds full-stack production tracing.
Eval-First, Not Production-First
Braintrust is built around experiments and scoring. While it supports OTel tracing, there's no unified platform for logs, metrics, and APM alongside your LLM traces. Oodle gives you full-stack observability in one place.
No Infrastructure Correlation
Braintrust traces LLM calls but doesn't provide infrastructure monitoring. When an agent is slow, you can't see whether it's the model, the database, or the API gateway — you need a separate tool. Oodle shows everything in one trace.
Cost at Scale
Braintrust charges $3–4 per GB of processed data plus per-score fees. Oodle's $0.30/GB storage-based model means costs stay predictable — even at millions of traces per day.
Oodle vs Braintrust — Feature Comparison
| Feature | Oodle AI | Braintrust |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $0.30/GB (~$10 per million spans) | Per-GB processed data ($3–4/GB overage) + per-score fees |
| Production tracing | Full distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, unified with infra | OpenTelemetry supported — distributed tracing available |
| Infrastructure correlation | Built-in — LLM spans live in same traces as API, DB, cache | LLM traces only — no native APM/logs/metrics platform |
| Instrumentation standard | OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions | Braintrust SDK or OpenTelemetry (GenAI conventions supported) |
| Evals & experimentation | Yes — built-in LLMOps workflow | Yes — core strength with scoring and datasets |
| Logs, metrics, APM | Full unified platform | Not available — LLM observability only |
| AI-powered debugging | Natural language queries across all signals | AI-powered Topics for clustering; no NL query across signals |
| Production scale | 3M+ agent traces/day, S3-native serverless | Cloud-hosted, scaling varies by plan |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR | SOC 2 Type II |
$10 per Million Spans
Braintrust charges $3–4 per GB of processed data plus per-score fees. Oodle charges $0.30/GB — that works out to ~$10 per million spans at any scale.
Switch in Under an Hour
Replace Braintrust logging with OpenTelemetry tracing. No infrastructure changes.
How to Switch
Replace Braintrust SDK with OTel
30 minSwap Braintrust wrappers for OpenLLMetry or any OTel-compatible instrumentation library.
Point OTLP Exporter at Oodle
5 minOne config line. Same endpoint for LLM and backend traces — no new collector needed.
See Full-Stack Traces
InstantLLM calls, tool invocations, and infra spans appear in one unified trace waterfall.
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