Braintrust evaluates your AI product. AgentShield governs your AI agents in production.
Braintrust is an AI product evaluation platform focused on testing, scoring, and logging. AgentShield is a runtime governance platform that monitors agent behavior, scores risk, and enforces compliance in production.
| Feature | Braintrust | AgentShield |
|---|---|---|
| Evaluation & Testing | ||
| Evaluation Framework | ✓ core feature | ✓ adversarial testing |
| Dataset Management | ✓ | ✗ |
| Experiment Tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Runtime Monitoring | ||
| Real-Time Agent Monitoring | ✗ | ✓ |
| AI-Powered Risk Scoring | ✗ | ✓ |
| Agent Tracing with Spans | ~ logging only | ✓ |
| Real-Time Alerts | ✗ | ✓ |
| Governance | ||
| Human-in-the-Loop Approvals | ✗ | ✓ |
| Compliance Reports (EU AI Act) | ✗ | ✓ |
| Cost Budgets & Alerts | ✗ | ✓ |
Yes. Braintrust is excellent for evaluating and iterating on your AI product during development. AgentShield takes over in production — monitoring what agents actually do, scoring risk in real-time, and enforcing governance policies.
Use Braintrust to build better AI. Use AgentShield to keep it safe in production.
Evaluation catches what you test for. Runtime governance catches everything else.