Alternatives to RAGAS

3 editor-selected alternatives · RAGAS overview →

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Composio

82/100open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Composio connects AI agents to 1,000+ app toolkits with managed auth, delegated user connections, sessions, tool search, MCP gateway support, CLI workflows, and sandboxed workbench execution. It targets developers building Claude, Codex, Cursor, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, and custom agent workflows that need authenticated business actions without hand-rolling every API integration.

Composio provides tool integrations and execution environments for AI agents and LLMs. It features a Free plan with 100,000 monthly tool calls and 50,000 triggers for up to 3 team members. The Pro plan starts at $29/month with scaling overages ($4/1k extra calls), and Enterprise tiers include custom KMS credential management and SLAs.Review →

Steel

open sourcefreemiumexplicit relation

Steel is an open-source browser API purpose-built for AI agents, providing managed headless browser sessions with anti-bot bypass, proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and session persistence. It handles the infrastructure layer that browser automation agents like Browser Use and Stagehand run on top of. Self-hostable or available as a cloud service. Over 6,000 GitHub stars.

Open-source browser sandbox (Apache-2.0) with $0 self-hosted deployment. Steel Cloud offers a Free tier with 100 browser hours/month ($30 starting credits). Paid usage is metered at ~$0.08/browser hour, with CAPTCHA solving starting at $1/1k solves and residential proxy bandwidth from $6/GB. Enterprise plans provide dedicated infrastructure, custom concurrency limits, and 24/7 SLA.

Agno

82/100open sourceexplicit relation

Fast, lightweight Python framework for building multi-modal AI agents, formerly known as Phidata. Includes built-in memory, knowledge bases, tools, and reasoning capabilities with 40K+ GitHub stars. Designed for developers who want to build production-ready agents quickly with minimal boilerplate, supporting structured outputs and multi-agent coordination out of the box.

Agno (formerly Phidata) offers a free open-source framework under the MIT license for building multimodal AI agents. The managed production platform provides a Pro plan at $150/month (including 1 live connection) and custom Enterprise tiers.Review →

Open-source RAGAS alternatives

Composio, Steel, Agno — see all open-source developer tools.

Free RAGAS alternatives

Composio, Steel offer a free plan or free tier.

More Testing & QA tools

same category, not editor-selected alternatives — see how RAGAS compares →

MCP InspectorMCP Inspector is the official interactive developer tool from the Model Context Protocol team for testing, debugging, and validating MCP servers. It provides a visual interface to inspect available tools, test transport configurations, export configs for different clients, and verify protocol compliance during MCP server development.PlaywrightCross-browser E2E testing framework by Microsoft supporting Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with one API. Features auto-waiting, tracing with timeline/screenshots/DOM snapshots, codegen for recording tests, and parallel execution. Component testing for React, Vue, Svelte. Built-in API testing, network mocking, and mobile emulation. Known for reliability and speed vs Selenium/Cypress. 70K+ GitHub stars, rapidly becoming the E2E standard.DeepEvalDeepEval is an Apache-2.0 Python framework for evaluating LLM apps, RAG systems, agents, MCP workflows, and safety behavior with repeatable test cases. It works locally and in CI/CD, then connects to Confident AI for hosted reports, observability, red teaming, and governance when teams need shared evidence instead of ad-hoc prompt reviews and manual QA.reviewdogreviewdog is an open-source automated code review tool that integrates any linter or static analysis tool with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Gitea pull requests. Parses output in errorformat, Checkstyle XML, SARIF, and JSON formats to post inline review comments on changed lines only. Works with GitHub Actions, Travis CI, CircleCI, GitLab CI, and Jenkins. Supports 40+ languages through universal linter adapter architecture.LangfuseLangfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform with 29K+ GitHub stars for tracing, evaluating, and monitoring AI applications. Acquired by ClickHouse, it provides detailed traces of LLM calls, prompt management with versioning, dataset-based evaluation, user feedback collection, and cost tracking. Framework-agnostic with native integrations for LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI SDK, and Vercel AI SDK. Offers both self-hosted deployment and a managed cloud service.StablyStably enables developers to create QA tests in plain English using a no-code editor, with AI ensuring tests remain valid as the application evolves through self-healing locators and assertions. It lowers the barrier to high-quality QA for startups by eliminating the need for scripting knowledge, automatically adapting test steps when UI elements change position or structure.CUA (Computer-Use Agent)Open-source computer-use infrastructure for agents that need to drive desktop environments in the background. CUA includes Cua Driver, Sandbox, Run, Bench, and Verified Data across Linux, Windows, macOS, and Android, with MCP and CLI surfaces for screenshots, accessibility trees, keyboard/mouse actions, shell commands, task evaluation, and fleet execution.ChromaticChromatic is a Storybook-first visual testing and UI review platform for design systems and frontend teams. It publishes Storybook, captures component snapshots, reviews pull-request diffs, and supports interaction tests, accessibility checks, TurboSnap, SteadySnap, Playwright/Cypress workflows, and Storybook MCP context.MomenticMomentic is an AI-native testing platform that lets teams write end-to-end tests in plain English. It features auto-healing test selectors that adapt to UI changes, instant mobile device emulators, built-in visual regression testing, and AI-powered flaky test handling. Backed by $15M Series A from Standard Capital, it eliminates brittle test maintenance through intelligent element identification and self-repairing test flows.

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FAQ

Which RAGAS alternative is listed first?

Composio is first in the editor-selected list of 3 RAGAS alternatives and carries an editorial review score of 82/100. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source RAGAS alternatives?

Yes — Composio, Steel, Agno are open source.

Are there free RAGAS alternatives?

Yes — Composio, Steel offer a free plan or free tier.