BAM Elevate faced challenges in evaluating their extensive agentic workflows due to the high costs and latency associated with traditional LLM-as-judge evaluations using GPT-4. They required a solution that provided rapid feedback across various orchestration frameworks without incurring excessive expenses or being locked into a specific platform. This led to a comparison between two platforms: Galileo and LangSmith. Galileo offers a comprehensive, framework-agnostic platform designed for large-scale production, providing features like sub-200ms inline protection, synthetic data generation, and metric reusability, which allow for proactive quality assurance and cost savings. In contrast, LangSmith is tailored for LangChain-focused applications, excelling in tracing and debugging during the prototyping stage but lacking in runtime intervention and requiring additional tools for comprehensive observability. Galileo's infrastructure supports production-grade observability with features such as real-time guardrails and regulatory compliance, making it ideal for large-scale deployments, while LangSmith is more suited for smaller-scale operations and rapid prototyping within the LangChain ecosystem.