Vellum Alternatives
Vellum no longer sells a developer platform. Its site now offers a consumer AI assistant.
If you are still running it, treat migration as scheduled work rather than a backlog item.
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Teams where non-engineers need to edit prompts safely, and where prompt governance - versioning, review, controlled release - is a real organisational requirement rather than a nice-to-have.
From $49/mo Bills requests - 8
Teams doing serious, reproducible model evaluation - safety testing, capability benchmarking, agent evaluation, or anything where the result has to withstand scrutiny. Also the right choice for anyone publishing evaluation results.
From $0 (open source) Self-hosts free
Frequently Asked Questions
Why do people look for Vellum alternatives?
Vellum no longer sells a developer platform. Its site now offers a consumer AI assistant. That is the main reason this search exists, and it makes migration a requirement rather than a preference.
What is the closest free alternative to Vellum?
Agenta is the strongest option that self-hosts free - Teams that want one self-hosted MIT-licensed platform covering prompts, evaluation and observability, and who value environment promotion and branching over best-in-class depth in any single area. Free on licence is not free to operate though; you still own the infrastructure and the on-call.
How should I compare the costs?
Not by their published prices, because tools in this category meter different things - spans, events, GB ingested, seats, prompts, or a percentage of provider spend. A $50 plan means something completely different in each case. Model your own request volume and span count through the cost calculator instead.