PromptLayer
Prompt versioning + tracing platform — non-eng-friendly prompt editor; early entrant pre-LLM-ops wave.
Active · Verified 2026-10-27 · fresh as of 2026-10-27 · 21 cited facts, 2 with a third-party source · 1 recorded change · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Prompt management + tracing vendor fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- v1.5.16 (2026-08-19) — promptlayer registry fix
- License
- proprietary; Python SDK Apache-2.0 repo fix
- Pricing
- Free $0 (2.5k requests/mo); Pro $49/mo; Team $500/mo (100k+ requests); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Funding
- Pre-seed 2023 (Bloomberg Beta + Y Combinator W23). third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-27 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest, typescript vendor fix
- Protocols
- opentelemetry repo fix
- Compliance
- ccpa, gdpr, hipaa, soc2-type2 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 0.37 (12-mo avg 2.2) · 2 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
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Pros & cons
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Technical surface
- API surface
- Python SDK
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — self-hosting on Enterprise plan (GCP, AWS, Azure)
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
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- A2A
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- OpenTelemetry
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Sources (20 cited facts, 2 third-party)
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- What it is Prompt management + tracing vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Prompt versioning + tracing platform — non-eng-friendly prompt editor; early entrant pre… vendor
- Created 2022 vendor
- Latest release v1.5.16 (2026-08-19) — promptlayer registry
- License proprietary; Python SDK Apache-2.0 repo
- GitHub MagnivOrg/prompt-layer-library — ~0.8k stars, last commit 2026-08 repo
- Funding Pre-seed 2023 (Bloomberg Beta + Y Combinator W23). third-party
- Pricing Free $0 (2.5k requests/mo); Pro $49/mo; Team $500/mo (100k+ requests); Enterprise custom vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — self-hosting on Enterprise plan (GCP, AWS, Azure) vendor
- HQ US vendor
- Founders / pedigree Jared Zoneraich (CEO), Jonathan Pedoeem; founded 2022. vendor
- API surface Python SDK registry
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial repo
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":3.51,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":2.2,"openrank_current":0.37,"particip… third-party
- compliance-certifications ccpa,gdpr,hipaa,soc2-type2 vendor
- sdk-languages python,rest,typescript vendor
- protocol-support opentelemetry repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-27
- License first recorded as “proprietary; Python SDK Apache-2.0” source
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.5.16 (2026-08-19) — promptlayer” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Free $0 (2.5k requests/mo); Pro $49/mo; Team $500/mo (100k+ requests); Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — self-hosting on Enterprise plan (GCP, AWS, Azure)” source
Related systems
Referenced by (4)
- LiteLLM integrates with — LiteLLM docs have a PromptLayer logging/observability integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — LlamaIndex has an official callback/observability integration package llama-index-callbacks-promptlayer in its repo. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Agents SDK integrates with — OpenAI Agents SDK tracing docs list PromptLayer under external tracing processors. (verified 2026-10-29)
- TrueFoundry AI Gateway integrates with — TrueFoundry AI Gateway ecosystem lists a PromptLayer integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)