# Braintrust Gateway: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 7 judge labels across 1 category by 6 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/braintrust-gateway

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [LLM gateways and observability](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/llm-gateways-and-observability/index.md) | 2% | 9 | 0% | 7 |

## What the models said for it

- "Top Recommendation: Braintrust" (MiniMax M2.5, LLM gateways)
- "choose it when production traces must flow directly into evaluations, regression testing, and CI/CD quality gates" (Perplexity Sonar, LLM gateways)
- "Choose Portkey or Braintrust if your priority is prompt evaluation, audit logging" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, LLM gateways)
- "For more advanced needs, Braintrust Gateway is a robust alternative." (Mistral Small, LLM gateways)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Braintrust Gateway, from 15 of the 17 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- braintrust.dev: 11 (its own site)
- dev.to: 10
- getmaxim.ai: 10
- github.com: 7
- orq.ai: 6
- respan.ai: 6
- confident-ai.com: 4
- dataiku.com: 3
- developersdigest.tech: 3
- fastrouter.ai: 3

### Pages cited

- https://braintrust.dev/articles/best-llm-gateways-observability-2026: 5
- https://orq.ai/blog/best-llm-observability-tools: 4
- https://braintrust.dev/articles: 3
- https://braintrust.dev/articles/best-ai-observability-platforms-2025: 3
- https://confident-ai.com/knowledge-base/compare/10-llm-observability-tools-to-evaluate-and-monitor-ai-2026: 3
- https://dataiku.com/blog/best-llm-gateways: 3
- https://langchain.com/resources/llm-observability-tools: 3
- https://langfuse.com/: 3

## In its own words

What Braintrust Gateway's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: The active observability platform for agents (https://braintrust.dev/)
- For: teams running agents in production (https://braintrust.dev/)
- Price stated: Free tier available (https://braintrust.dev/)
- Starting price: 0 (https://braintrust.dev/)
- Free plan or trial: Free tier available (https://braintrust.dev/)
- Certifications: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA
- Customers named: Notion, Graphite, Coursera

## What it publishes

Every page braintrust.dev exposes, read 2026-09-29: 458 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 206 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- case study: 13 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- webinar or virtual event: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 8 pages, 6 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-10-07
- comparison: 40 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-04-20
- glossary or explainer: 14 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-04-20
- Recent: 2026-10-07 conference or event: 2026 10 07 evals foundations https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-10-07-evals-foundations
- Recent: 2026-09-16 conference or event: 2026 09 16 active observability https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-09-16-active-observability
- Recent: 2026-09-09 conference or event: 2026 09 09 evals foundations https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-09-09-evals-foundations
- Recent: 2026-08-26 conference or event: 2026 08 26 financial services agents https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-08-26-financial-services-agents
- Recent: 2026-08-13 conference or event: 2026 08 13 evals foundations https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-08-13-evals-foundations
- Recent: 2026-07-10 conference or event: 2026 07 10 evals from prod data https://www.braintrust.dev/workshops/2026-07-10-evals-from-prod-data

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.