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TensorZero
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Open source LLM gateway and optimization framework unifying inference, observability and evals.
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In practice
Written by AI from this repository’s README · high confidenceProvider SDKs, tracing, evals and A/B testing are usually four separate systems that never share the same data.
Use it when
Use it when you need a low latency gateway whose stored inferences and feedback feed evals and optimization.
Not the right pick when
More machinery than needed if you call one provider and have no plans for evaluation or experimentation.
Capabilities
- call any LLM, API or self hosted, through a single unified API
- tool use, structured outputs, batch, embeddings, multimodal and caching
- inferences and feedback stored in your own database
- evaluation with heuristics and LLM judges
- built-in A/B testing, routing, fallbacks and retries
- usage and cost tracking with custom rate limits
Requirements
- A database to store inferences and feedback
- Provider credentials, or gateway auth so clients avoid sharing them
Cost: Free and open source
Video walkthroughs
TensorZero Demo
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What the repository ships
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Latest release 2026.6.0
Published 2026-06-04
[!CAUTION]
Security Advisory
This release fixed a high-risk vulnerability affecting the TensorZero Gateway.
Please refer to the security advisory for more details: https://github.com/tensorzero/tensorzero/security/advisories/GHSA-824w-x939-6cmc
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README
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TensorZero
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TensorZero is an open-source LLMOps platform that unifies:
- Gateway: access every LLM provider through a unified API, built for performance (<1ms p99 latency)
- Observability: store inferences and feedback in your database, available programmatically or in the UI
- Evaluation: benchmark individual inferences or end-to-end workflows using heuristics, LLM judges, etc.
- Optimization: collect metrics and human feedback to optimize prompts, models, and inference strategies
- Experimentation: ship with confidence with built-in A/B testing, routing, fallbacks, retries, etc.
You can take what you need, adopt incrementally, and complement with other tools.
It plays nicely with the OpenAI SDK, OpenTelemetry, and every major LLM provider.
TensorZero is used by companies ranging from frontier AI startups to the Fortune 10 and fuels ~1% of global LLM API spend today.
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/" target="_blank">Website</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/docs" target="_blank">Docs</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.x.com/tensorzero" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/slack" target="_blank">Slack</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/quickstart" target="_blank">Quick Start (5min)</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/deployment/tensorzero-gateway" target="_blank">Deployment Guide</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/gateway/api-reference" target="_blank">API Reference</a></b>
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<b><a href="https://www.tensorzero.com/docs/gateway/configuration-reference" target="_blank">Configuration Reference</a></b>
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Demo
<video src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/04a8466e-27d8-4189-b305-e7cecb6881ee"></video>
Features
[!NOTE]
### 🆕 TensorZero Autopilot
TensorZero Autopilot is an automated AI engineer powered by TensorZero that analyzes LLM observability data, sets up evals, optimizes prompts and models, and runs A/B tests.
It dramatically improves the performance of LLM agents across diverse tasks:
<img width="600" alt="Bar chart showing baseline vs. optimized scores across diverse LLM tasks" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aa474fe3-b55a-48aa-9f0d-e7c2f8e32ccd" />
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🌐 LLM Gateway
Integrate with TensorZero once and access every major LLM provider.
- [x] Call any LLM (API or self-hosted) through a single unified API
- [x] Infer with tool use, structured outputs (JSON), batch, embeddings, multimodal (images, files), caching, etc.
- [x] Create prompt templates and schemas to enforce a structured interface between your application and the LLMs
- [x] Satisfy extreme throughput and latency needs, thanks to 🦀 Rust: <1ms p99 latency overhead at 10k+ QPS
- [x] Ensure high availability with routing, retries, fallbacks, load balancing, granular timeouts, etc.
- [x] Track usage and cost and enforce custom rate limits with granular scopes (e.g. tags)
- [x] Set up auth for TensorZero to allow clients to access models without sharing provider API keys
Supported Model Providers
Google AI Studio (Gemini API),
Groq,
TGI,
vLLM, and
Need something else? TensorZero also supports any OpenAI-compatible API (e.g. Ollama).
Usage Example
You can use TensorZero with any OpenAI SDK (Python, Node, Go, etc.) or OpenAI-compatible client.
- Deploy the TensorZero Gateway (one Docker container).
- Update the
base_urlandmodelin your OpenAI-compatible client. - Run inference:
from openai import OpenAI
# Point the client to the TensorZero Gateway
client = OpenAI(base_url="http://localhost:3000/openai/v1", api_key="not-used")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
# Call any model provider (or TensorZero function)
model="tensorzero::model_name::anthropic::claude-sonnet-4-6",
messages=[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Share a fun fact about TensorZero.",
}
],
)
See Quick Start for more information.
🔍 LLM Observability
Zoom in to debug individual API calls, or zoom out to monitor metrics across models and prompts over time — all using the open-source TensorZero UI.
- [x] Store inferences and feedback (metrics, human edits, etc.) in your own database
- [x] Dive into individual inferences or high-level aggregate patterns using the TensorZero UI or programmatically
- [x] Build datasets for optimization, evaluation, and other workflows
- [x] Replay historical inferences with new prompts, models, inference strategies, etc.
- [x] Export OpenTelemetry traces (OTLP) and export Prometheus metrics to your favorite application observability tools
- [ ] Soon: AI-assisted debugging and root cause analysis; AI-assisted data labeling
📈 LLM Optimization
Send production metrics and human feedback to easily optimize your prompts, models, and inference strategies — using the UI or programmatically.
- [x] Optimize your models with supervised fine-tuning, RLHF, and other techniques
- [x] Optimize your prompts with automated prompt engineering algorithms like GEPA
- [x] Optimize your inference strategy with dynamic in-context learning, best/mixture-of-N sampling, etc.
- [x] Enable a feedback loop for your LLMs: a data & learning flywheel turning production data into smarter, faster, and cheaper models
- [ ] Soon: synthetic data generation
📊 LLM Evaluation
Compare prompts, models, and inference strategies using evaluations powered by heuristics and LLM judges.
- [x] Evaluate individual inferences with _inference evaluations_ powered by heuristics or LLM judges (≈ unit tests for LLMs)
- [x] Evaluate end-to-end workflows with _workflow evaluations_ with complete flexibility (≈ integration tests for LLMs)
- [x] Optimize LLM judges just like any other TensorZero function to align them to human preferences
- [ ] Soon: more built-in evaluators; headless evaluations
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<td width="50%" align="center" valign="middle"><b>Evaluation » UI</b></td>
<td width="50%" align="center" valign="middle"><b>Evaluation » CLI</b></td>
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<td width="50%" align="center" valign="middle"><img src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f4bf54e3-1b63-46c8-be12-2eaabf615699"></td>
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<pre><code class="language-bash">docker compose run --rm evaluations \
--evaluation-name extract_data \
--dataset-name hard_test_cases \
--variant-name gpt_4o \
--concurrency 5</code></pre>
<pre><code class="language-bash">Run ID: 01961de9-c8a4-7c60-ab8d-15491a9708e4
Number of datapoints: 100
██████████████████████████████████████ 100/100
exact_match: 0.83 ± 0.03 (n=100)
semantic_match: 0.98 ± 0.01 (n=100)
item_count: 7.15 ± 0.39 (n=100)</code></pre>
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🧪 LLM Experimentation
Ship with confidence with built-in A/B testing, routing, fallbacks, retries, etc.
- [x] Run adaptive A/B tests to ship with confidence and identify the best prompts and models for your use cases.
- [x] Enforce principled experiments in complex workflows, including support for multi-turn LLM systems, sequential testing, and more.
& more!
Build with an open-source stack well-suited for prototypes but designed from the ground up to support the most complex LLM applications and deployments.
- [x] Build simple applications or massive deployments with GitOps-friendly orchestration
- [x] Extend TensorZero with built-in escape hatches, programmatic-first usage, direct database access, and more
- [x] Integrate with third-party tools: specialized observability and evaluations, model providers, agent orchestration frameworks, etc.
- [x] Iterate quickly by experimenting with prompts interactively using the Playground UI
Frequently Asked Questions
How is TensorZero different from other LLM frameworks?
- TensorZero enables you to optimize complex LLM applications based on production metrics and human feedback.
- TensorZero supports the needs of industrial-grade LLM applications: low latency, high throughput, type safety, self-hosted, GitOps, customizability, etc.
- TensorZero unifies the entire LLMOps stack, creating compounding benefits. For example, LLM evaluations can be used for fine-tuning models alongside AI judges.
Can I use TensorZero with \_\_\_?
Yes.
Every major programming language is supported.
It plays nicely with the OpenAI SDK, OpenTelemetry, and every major LLM provider.
Is TensorZero production-ready?
Yes.
TensorZero is used by companies ranging from frontier AI startups to the Fortune 10 and powers ~1% of the global LLM API spend today.
Here's a case study: Automating Code Changelogs at a Large Bank with LLMs
How much does TensorZero cost?
TensorZero (LLMOps platform) is 100% self-hosted and open-source.
TensorZero Autopilot (automated AI engineer) is a complementary paid product powered by TensorZero.
Who is building TensorZero?
Our technical team includes a former Rust compiler maintainer, machine learning researchers (Stanford, CMU, Oxford, Columbia) with thousands of citations, and the chief product officer of a decacorn startup. We're backed by the same investors as leading open-source projects (e.g. ClickHouse, CockroachDB) and AI labs (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic). See our $7.3M seed round announcement and **[coverage from VentureBeat](https://venturebeat.com/ai/tensorzero-nabs-7-3m-seed-to-solve-the-messy
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