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Traccia vs Waxell
Short answer: Pick Traccia if you want policy-enforced AI agent governance; pick Waxell if you want real-time AI agent governance. Traccia has a free plan, paid from $99/month; Waxell has a free plan, paid from $49/month.
TracciaFinally, a vendor-neutral AI Agent Control Plane. #6 on ProductHunt
WaxellThe governance plane for AI agents in productionWhich to pick
Pick Traccia if you want…
- Policy-enforced AI agent governance
- Vendor-neutral control plane
- Open-source code (traccia-ai/traccia-py on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license)
- Integrations with OpenAI Agents SDK (on Traccia's list, not Waxell's)
Pick Waxell if you want…
- Real-time AI agent governance
- The lower starting price: $49/month against $99/month
- Integrations with Claude, GPT-4 or Gemini (on Waxell's list, not Traccia's)
Side 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
- Starting price
- Traccia:$99/month (Observe)
- Waxell:$49/month (Team)
- Free plan or trial
- Traccia:Free plan (Hobby) · Free trial
- Waxell:Free plan (Free) · Free trial
- 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
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.
Traccia vs Waxell FAQ
What is the difference between Traccia and 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.
Should I use Traccia or Waxell?+
Pick Traccia if you want policy-enforced AI agent governance, vendor-neutral control plane or open-source code (traccia-ai/traccia-py on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). Pick Waxell if you want real-time AI agent governance, the lower starting price: $49/month against $99/month or integrations with Claude, GPT-4 or Gemini (on Waxell's list, not Traccia's).
Is Traccia or Waxell free?+
Traccia has a free plan (Hobby); paid plans start at $99/month (Observe). Waxell has a free plan; paid plans start at $49/month (Team).
Which is cheaper, Traccia or Waxell?+
Waxell is cheaper to start with: Waxell's Team plan ($49/month) against Traccia's Observe plan ($99/month).
Is Traccia or Waxell open source?+
Traccia is open source (traccia-ai/traccia-py on GitHub, Apache-2.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Waxell.
Do Traccia and Waxell integrate with the same tools?+
Partly. Both list LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen and LlamaIndex. Traccia also lists OpenAI Agents SDK; Waxell also lists Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, Claude Desktop and 6 more.
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