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Traccia vs Waxell
Traccia is a vendor-neutral AI agent control plane but does not include built-in PII redaction, cost limits, or shadow AI discovery like Waxell.
TracciaFinally, a vendor-neutral AI Agent Control Plane. #6 on ProductHunt
WaxellThe governance plane for AI agents in productionSide by side
- What it is
- Traccia:Traccia is a vendor-neutral AI Agent Control Plane for observing, evaluating, governing and auditing autonomous agents in production.
- Waxell:Waxell provides observability and governance for AI agents in production, enforcing policies, detecting PII, and controlling costs.
- Best for
- Traccia:Policy-enforced AI agent governance
- Waxell:Real-time AI agent governance
- Who it’s for
- Traccia:Teams running autonomous AI agents who need observability, cost control and compliance.
- Waxell:Engineering and security teams deploying AI agents at scale
- Pricing
- Traccia:Freemium
- Waxell:Freemium
- Plans
- Traccia:Hobby Free · Observe $99 per month · Govern $299 per month · Scale $799 per month
- Waxell:Free $0 · Team $49 per month · Business $499 per month
- Open source
- Traccia:Yes, 127 GitHub stars
- Waxell:—
- Works with
- Traccia:LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, AutoGen, LlamaIndex
- Waxell:Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, LangChain, CrewAI
- DevHunt upvotes
- Traccia:21
- Waxell:1
- Launched on DevHunt
- Traccia:Sep 2026
- Waxell:Mar 2026
Traccia features
- Unified Agent Registry. Tracks all agents across LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK and more without code changes.
- End-to-End Tracing. OpenTelemetry-native visibility into every LLM call, tool use and decision.
- Policy Monitoring & Enforcement. Three-tier guardrails that hard-block violations mid-execution.
- Cost & Token Attribution. Accurate per-model cost and token tracking, computed locally at span-end.
- PII & Sensitive Data Detection. Detects and masks personal data in traces before export.
- Prompt Registry & Playground. Versioned prompts with side-by-side evaluation and production promotion.
- Compliance Evidence. One-click export of audit-ready packs for EU AI Act and HIPAA.
- Analytics & ROI. Basic and advanced analytics, scheduled exports and an API for deeper insights.
Waxell features
- Observe. Captures every LLM call, tool invocation and agent decision with real-time PII redaction and budget enforcement.
- Connect. Zero-code integration for third-party agents and MCP tools with policy checks and rug-pull detection.
- Gateway. Single governed endpoint that fingerprints MCP tools, applies policies and audits every tool call.
- Endpoints. Discovers AI apps on devices via TLS handshake metadata without decrypting traffic.
- Runtime. Durable managed execution with pause, resume, replay, lineage graph and kill-switches.
- Auto-instrumentation. 200+ libraries auto-instrumented with OpenTelemetry-native SDK, two-line setup.
Based on each tool's website and DevHunt data. Details may change; check the official sites.