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The best Experiment Tracking & ML Ops

Every option ranked — open-source, self-hostable, and commercial — by our transparent Sovereignty Score, with honest trade-offs so you choose what fits you, not us.

The record of what you trained, on what data, with which hyperparameters, and how it scored. Cheap to add early, painful to reconstruct later, and priced per seat by every managed option.

L4Models & tooling — layer 4 of the AI stack

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MLflow
Top pickOpen source
The open standard. Tracking, registry, projects and deployment in one.
Free, Apache-2.0. Managed versions are sold by the clouds if you want one. · in our Weights & Biases comparison →
93
sovereignty
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DVC
Open source
Git for data and pipelines. Reproducibility rather than dashboards.
Free, Apache-2.0. You supply the object storage. · in our Weights & Biases comparison →
94
sovereignty
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Aim
Open source
The tracking UI people actually enjoy. Fast at thousands of runs.
Free, Apache-2.0. · in our Weights & Biases comparison →
93
sovereignty
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ClearML
Open source
The most complete open platform — tracking, orchestration and data together.
Free self-hosted, Apache-2.0; a hosted tier with paid plans is also offered. · in our Weights & Biases comparison →
90
sovereignty
What is ClearML? →
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Determined AI
Open source
Distributed training and hyperparameter search, self-hosted.
Free and Apache-2.0, self-hosted on your own cluster. · in our Weights & Biases comparison →
89
sovereignty
What is Determined AI? →

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