Arize tells you what your agents did. AgentShield helps you control what your agents can do.
Arize is an enterprise ML observability platform ($131M+ funded) built for model performance monitoring and evaluation. AgentShield is purpose-built for AI agent governance, safety, and compliance in production.
| Feature | Arize AI | AgentShield |
|---|---|---|
| Observability | ||
| Agent Tracing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Span Trees / Waterfall View | ✓ | ✓ |
| Token & Cost Tracking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embedding Drift Detection | ✓ | ✗ |
| Evaluation | ||
| LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluations | ✓ | ✗ |
| Prompt Playground | ✓ | ✗ |
| A/B Experiments | ✓ | ✗ |
| Risk & Safety | ||
| AI-Powered Risk Analysis | ✗ | ✓ |
| Real-Time Risk Alerts | ✗ | ✓ |
| Built-in Guardrails | ✗ | ✓ |
| Adversarial Testing Suite | ✗ | ✓ 57+ scenarios |
| Governance | ||
| Human-in-the-Loop Approvals | ✗ | ✓ |
| Compliance Reports (EU AI Act) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cost Budgets & Alerts | ✗ | ✓ |
| Platform | ||
| Enterprise Security (SOC2, HIPAA) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Open Source (Phoenix) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Framework-Agnostic SDK | ✓ OpenTelemetry | ✓ Python SDK |
| Plan | Arize AI | AgentShield |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Phoenix OSS (local only) | 1 agent, 1K events, keyword risk |
| Starter | $50/mo (Developer, 25K spans) | $49/mo — AI analysis, tracing, approvals |
| Pro / Team | Custom (Teams plan) | $149/mo — compliance reports, testing |
| Enterprise | Custom (SSO, RBAC, SLA) | Custom |
Yes. Arize excels at deep ML observability, embedding analysis, and evaluation experiments. AgentShield excels at runtime safety, compliance, and governance. Use Arize to understand model performance. Use AgentShield to make sure your agents stay safe in production.
Build better models with Arize. Keep them under control with AgentShield.
3 lines of code. Risk analysis, compliance reports, and approval workflows from day one.