# How Stratix compares

The AI evaluation space is crowded. This page is the short, honest comparison. The deep version with feature-by-feature tables lives in [How Stratix compares (deep)](/1.-introduction/how-stratix-compares-deep.md).

## What's distinctly Stratix

These are the things you can do on Stratix today that are **not** equivalent on the alternatives:

* **Public model leaderboard.** 175+ models, 52+ benchmarks, refreshed quarterly. None of the alternatives operate a public catalog at this scale.
* **Public benchmark catalog.** Open browsing, no signup. Most alternatives keep benchmarks behind login.
* **Quarterly research reports.** Long-form, dated, methodologically transparent.
* **Industry pages.** 13 industries, scenario-mapped to platform capabilities.
* **Migration guides** from LangSmith, Braintrust, Galileo, Promptfoo, MLflow.
* **Pricing transparency.** Public Free tier, ECU PAYG visible without a sales call.

## What the alternatives do that we don't (yet)

Honesty up front:

* **Some have larger out-of-the-box framework integrations.** We ship a focused set; see [Integrations](/1.-introduction/01-introduction.md). When we don't have a turnkey integration, we have a sample.

## Honest competitive table

| Capability               | Stratix    | Braintrust | LangSmith | Galileo | Promptfoo | Arize   |
| ------------------------ | ---------- | ---------- | --------- | ------- | --------- | ------- |
| Public model leaderboard | yes        | no         | no        | no      | no        | no      |
| Public benchmark catalog | yes        | no         | no        | no      | no        | no      |
| Quarterly research       | yes        | no         | no        | no      | no        | no      |
| Migration guides         | 6          | minimal    | minimal   | minimal | minimal   | minimal |
| LLM-as-a-judge           | yes        | yes        | yes       | yes     | yes       | yes     |
| Judge optimization       | yes (GEPA) | partial    | no        | partial | no        | no      |
| Trace ingestion          | yes        | yes        | yes       | yes     | partial   | yes     |
| Trace evaluation         | yes        | yes        | yes       | yes     | partial   | yes     |
| Compare models           | yes        | partial    | no        | partial | yes       | partial |
| Public evaluation spaces | yes        | no         | no        | no      | no        | no      |
| Industry pages           | 13         | no         | no        | no      | no        | partial |
| Pricing transparency     | yes        | partial    | partial   | no      | yes       | partial |
| SDKs                     | yes        | yes        | yes       | yes     | yes       | yes     |

## Where to next

* [How Stratix compares (deep)](/1.-introduction/how-stratix-compares-deep.md) — feature-by-feature, with citations
* [Migration guides](/6.-build-wire-your-code/migration.md) — from LangSmith, Braintrust, Galileo, Promptfoo, MLflow, Arize
* [Pricing](/1.-introduction/01-introduction.md)
* [Industry patterns](/4.2-industry-use-cases/travel-hospitality.md)


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