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Cloudways vs LangSmith

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. LLM observability, testing & evaluation — by LangChain

Cloudways websiteLangSmith website

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
Cloudways website

LangSmith

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 5,000 traces/month. 14-day retention. 1 seat. Basic evaluations.
Free
Plus
$39/seat/month. 10k base traces included ($2.50 per 1k overage). Full evaluations, custom dashboards, email support.
$39/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Self-host option, SSO, custom retention, dedicated support.
Custom
LangSmith website

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs developer on LangSmith.

MetricCloudwaysLangSmith
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress)Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • BackupsAutomated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot ProtectionCloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot ScalerAutonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin)In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDNBuilt-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible PlansBYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal ScalingAuto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware ProtectionAdd-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache ProIncluded on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdatesAutomated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team CollaborationInvite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized)Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical ScalingResize server specs without migration.

LangSmith · 14 features

  • AlertsThreshold alerts on latency, cost, eval metrics.
  • Annotation QueuesHuman-review workflows for trace quality rating.
  • Custom DashboardsAggregate metrics dashboards per project/tag.
  • DatasetsCollect examples → use as eval sets or training data.
  • EvaluationsLLM-as-judge, embedding similarity, custom Python evaluators, offline batch eval
  • LangChain IntegrationAuto-trace any LangChain/LangGraph run with env var.
  • LangGraph IntegrationFirst-class trace + eval for LangGraph agents.
  • LLM TracingAutomatic trace every LLM call + tool call + chain step.
  • OpenTelemetry ExportExport traces as OTLP to Datadog/Honeycomb/etc.
  • PlaygroundTest prompts + models inline before deploying.
  • Prompt CanvasVisual prompt editor with live test + eval.
  • Prompt HubPublic + private prompt library with versioning.
  • Self-Hosted (Enterprise)Docker + k8s deployment in your infra.
  • Threads + SessionsGroup traces into conversational sessions.

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysLangSmith
CLILangSmith CLI
SDKlangsmith-js, langsmith-python
RESTCloudways APILangSmith REST API
MCPLangSmith MCP
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPLangSmith Dashboard
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