Faros AI is good at the question it was built for: what the AI coding tooling costs and what it returned. Teams look elsewhere for three reasons. Paid pricing is not published, so budgeting starts with a call.
The product is built around spend and adoption, and some teams need enforcement and evidence instead. And if the spend you actually care about is your own product’s model calls, this is the wrong shelf entirely.
Every price below was read from that vendor’s own pricing page, each entry carries the date it was checked, and the oldest on this page is October 2026. We re-check every quarter.
| Product | Why it is on this list | Starting price | Free tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fastpace | Governs the agents and proves what they did, rather than costing them. | $29 per editor seat, per month | Community tier, free. |
| Swarmia | Sells AI adoption and cost as a module at $5 per developer per month, with a published price. | $45 per developer, per month | Free for companies with up to 9 developers, with all Standard features except HRIS integrations and their AI features. |
| Jellyfish | Has an AI Impact module aimed at the adoption, efficacy and impact of AI coding tools. | Not published | None published. |
| Waydev | Covers AI tool adoption alongside delivery metrics and cost, priced per active contributor. | Quote only | None. |
| Portkey | If the spend you care about is your product’s own model calls, a gateway is the cheaper answer. | $49 per month | Developer plan, free forever, not for production. |
| Langfuse | Open source and free to self-host, if the question is really about the LLM features you ship. | From $0 | Hobby plan, free, plus free self-hosting. |
| Faros AI (the one you have) | Ties AI coding spend to the results it produces, with model selection and usage policy. | Not published | Free desktop and preview. |
“Not published” means the vendor shows no price on its own pricing page, so the first step is a sales conversation.
Writes one policy for every coding agent, records what each one did, and signs the record.
Best for: Teams running more than one AI coding tool who have to answer for what those tools did.
Community is free. Team is $29 per editor seat per month billed annually, or $36 monthly, with the first five seats free for twelve months. Platform is $99 per editor seat per month billed annually. Enterprise is custom. Viewer seats for CISO and GRC are free on Team.
Free tier: Community tier, free.
Checked October 2026.
Engineering effectiveness platform built around team insight and working agreements.
Best for: Teams that want to improve their own habits, with the data to see whether it worked.
Standard $45 and Enterprise $55 per developer per month, billed annually. Single modules start at $5 per developer per month. Standard and Enterprise are demo-first.
Free tier: Free for companies with up to 9 developers, with all Standard features except HRIS integrations and their AI features.
Checked October 2026.
Engineering management platform. Reports where engineering time and money go.
Best for: Leaders who must show the board how engineering investment maps to the roadmap.
No prices on the pricing page. It says pricing is based on the number of seats and the modules selected, and asks you to talk to a salesperson for a quote.
Free tier: None published.
Checked October 2026.
Engineering analytics across delivery, AI tool adoption and cost.
Best for: Teams who want analytics priced per active contributor rather than per seat.
Pro and Premium are per active contributor per month, billed annually, both shown as "ask for quote". Enterprise is a custom quote. Operational users such as managers and executives are free.
Free tier: None. Free trial and a free proof of concept.
Checked October 2026.
A gateway in front of your model calls, with observability, prompt management and guardrails.
Best for: Teams building an AI product who need to control and observe the calls that product makes.
Developer is free forever with 10,000 recorded logs a month. Production is $49 a month plus $9 per additional 100,000 requests. Enterprise is custom. An open source version can be self-hosted.
Free tier: Developer plan, free forever, not for production.
Checked October 2026.
Traces, prompt management and evaluation for the LLM applications and agents you build.
Best for: Teams shipping an LLM product who need to see and evaluate what it did.
Hobby is free with 50,000 units a month. Core is $29 a month, Pro $199, Enterprise $2,499, each including 100,000 units. A Teams add-on is $300 a month. Self-hosting the open source version is free.
Free tier: Hobby plan, free, plus free self-hosting.
Checked October 2026.
Ties AI coding spend to the results it produces, with model selection and usage policy.
Best for: Teams whose first question is what the AI tooling costs and what it returned.
No figures on the pricing page. A free desktop build and a free self-service preview, then a demo or sales contact.
Free tier: Free desktop version and a free self-service preview.
Checked October 2026.
Faros AI does not publish paid pricing. There is a free desktop version that keeps everything on your machine and a free self-service preview; anything beyond that is a demo or a sales conversation. Checked October 2026.
Several. Swarmia is free under ten developers, Portkey has a free forever developer plan and an open source build, Langfuse is open source with free self-hosting, and Fastpace has a free Community tier.
Swarmia prices an AI adoption and cost module at $5 per developer per month, Jellyfish sells an AI Impact module, and Waydev covers adoption and cost per active contributor. Fastpace records token counts per call where the runner exposes them, which is cost data as a by-product of the receipt rather than an analytics suite.
A signed, tamper-evident record tied to the commit, mapped to the frameworks they name. That is the Fastpace answer, and it is not what the spend tools are built to produce.
Yes, and most teams end up with two: something that answers the budget question and something that answers the evidence question. They read overlapping signals and produce different artefacts.
| Your loudest question is what AI tooling costs | Stay with Faros AI, or add Swarmia’s module at $5. |
| Finance wants AI impact next to the roadmap | Jellyfish. |
| You want per-active-contributor pricing | Waydev. |
| The spend is your own product’s model calls | Portkey, or Langfuse if you want open source. |
| Someone will ask you to prove what an agent did | Fastpace. |
The Community tier costs nothing, and Team starts with five free seats for twelve months.
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