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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| pretty_name: "The LLMOps Stack 2026 — OpenTelemetry, self-host & pricing models" |
| language: |
| - en |
| tags: |
| - lattice |
| - first-party-data |
| - doi |
| - ai-tools |
| source_datasets: |
| - original |
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| # The LLMOps Stack 2026 — OpenTelemetry, self-host & pricing models |
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| First-party research dataset from the **Lattice network**, published open under CC-BY 4.0 with a |
| permanent DOI. Nothing here is scraped from another dataset — it is computed and published under a |
| single ORCID-verified byline. |
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| | **DOI** | [`10.5281/zenodo.20738671`](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20738671) | |
| | **Published by** | Nesyona (`nesyona.com`) | |
| | **Study page** | https://nesyona.com/research/llmops-stack-comparison-2026/ | |
| | **Licence** | CC-BY 4.0 — reuse freely with attribution | |
| | **Publication date** | 2026-05-09 | |
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| ## What it is |
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| A structured comparison of 19 production LLM-operations tools across four stack layers (gateway/routing, observability/tracing, evaluation/testing, guardrails/safety) on five interoperability and cost dimensions: OpenTelemetry-native support, self-host availability, open-source licensing, pricing model, and whether evaluation and guardrails are built in. Compiled vendor-neutral with conflict disclosure; each cell read from the tool's own documentation, repository, or pricing page. Methodology and full sourcing at https://nesyona.com/research/llmops-stack-comparison-2026/ . License CC-BY 4.0. |
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| ## Citation |
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| ```bibtex |
| @dataset{llmops_stack_comparison_2026, |
| title = {The LLMOps Stack 2026 — OpenTelemetry, self-host & pricing models}, |
| author = {Couey, Vincent Wesley}, |
| year = {2026}, |
| doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20738671}, |
| url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20738671} |
| } |
| ``` |
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| ## Provenance |
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| Part of the Lattice open research index — every study is CC-BY, DOI-backed and published under one |
| byline. The full index: <https://www.deepsynthesis.org/#research> |
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