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At a glance

Open-source declarative framework from Stanford NLP for programming and automatically optimizing LLM pipelines (MIT). 100% free with $0 software cost; users only incur standard token costs from their underlying model providers during compilation and inference.

Self-hosting cost

DSPy is open source under the MIT license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

Free & cheaper Agent Frameworks

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Grok BotPer cursor.com/pricing, Grok Bot is included on Cursor Premium ($30/month), Super ($100/month), Ultra ($200/month), Teams (from $30/user/month) and Enterprise (custom); it is not included on Free or Plus.Latitudeopen sourceLatitude is an open-source AI agent observability and evaluation platform under the MIT license. It offers a free self-hosted edition and a free cloud Starter tier (20,000 credits/mo), alongside a Pro plan at $99/month for growing teams and custom Enterprise pricing.Judgevalopen sourceJudgeval is an open-source Python SDK (Apache-2.0) for AI agent evaluation and tracing. Judgment Labs offers hosted enterprise agent behavior monitoring and evaluation platform access via custom quotes.Mem0open sourceOpen-source core (Apache-2.0) with $0 self-hosting. Mem0 Cloud Free includes 10k memories and 1k retrieval calls/month. Starter is $19/mo for 50k memories and 5k retrievals. Pro ($99-$249/mo) unlocks Graph Memory (Mem0ᵍ), memory consolidation, and 500k memories with 50k retrievals. Enterprise provides custom pricing for VPC/on-premise deployment, SOC 2/HIPAA compliance, SAML SSO, and 24/7 SLA.
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FAQ

How much does DSPy cost?

Open-source declarative framework from Stanford NLP for programming and automatically optimizing LLM pipelines (MIT). 100% free with $0 software cost; users only incur standard token costs from their underlying model providers during compilation and inference.

Does DSPy have a free plan?

Yes — DSPy is open source and free to use.

Can you self-host DSPy for free?

DSPy is open source under the MIT license. Self-hosting does not add a software license fee, but you still pay for infrastructure, operations, and any external model or API usage.

What are free or cheaper DSPy alternatives?

Grok Bot, Latitude, Judgeval are in the same category with a free plan or open-source license.

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