In the news
Score freely
Pydantic · Bill Easton · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Logfire removed per-score pricing for AI evaluations, charging only standard telemetry rates instead of separate evaluation fees.
- Why it matters
- Engineers running frequent production evaluations who currently limit scoring frequency due to platform costs per evaluation result.
- Watch out
- Logfire's pricing advantage assumes you already use or adopt their full observability platform; LLM judge token costs remain separate regardless of platform.
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The patterns behind this
- Eval-Driven Development (Agent CI)
- Context Editing & Tool-Result Clearing
- Multi-Criteria Weighted Scoring
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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