LangChain is a San Francisco-based AI development framework and platform company that has become the most widely adopted open-source toolkit for building LLM-powered applications and AI agents — with 100K+ GitHub stars (now approaching 200K across its repositories) and integrations with 1,000+ models, tools, and data sources. It operates as two connected layers: LangChain and LangGraph (open-source frameworks for building LLM chains and stateful agents, respectively) and LangSmith (the commercial platform for observability, evaluation, testing, and deployment). LangChain 1.0 and LangGraph 1.0 reached GA in October 2025, reorganizing around a production-ready agent loop with first-class middleware. LangSmith has evolved in 2025–2026 from a tracing tool into a full agent engineering and operations platform, adding LangSmith Deployment (managed agent hosting), LangSmith Fleet (no-code agent builder for business teams), and a March 2026 integration with NVIDIA for enterprise-grade agentic AI development.
LangChain
The open-source framework and platform for building production AI agents
Compliance
GDPR SOC 2
Key Features
- LangGraph (open-source agent orchestration): A framework for building stateful, cyclical agent workflows with first-class support for multi-agent architectures, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, persistent memory, and parallel sub-agent execution — the structural backbone for most production-grade agents built on LangChain.
- LangSmith Observability (tracing and debugging): Framework-agnostic tracing that records every step of every agent run — LLM calls, tool invocations, retrieval steps, sub-agent delegation — with an AI assistant (Polly) for navigating and debugging large traces.
- LangSmith Evaluation: Offline dataset-based and online production evaluations with LLM-as-judge scoring, annotation queues for human review, and pairwise comparison — allowing teams to measure agent quality systematically rather than relying on manual spot-checking.
- LangSmith Deployment (managed agent hosting): A production runtime for LangGraph agents offering durable execution, horizontal autoscaling, human-in-the-loop interrupts, versioning, rollbacks, and native support for A2A, MCP, and Agent Protocol standards.
- LangSmith Fleet (no-code agent deployment): Formerly Agent Builder; a natural-language interface allowing non-technical teams to describe an agent task (daily briefings, competitor tracking, project updates) and have LangSmith build and deploy the agent — with human approval before sensitive actions.
- 1,000+ model and tool integrations: Native integrations with every major LLM provider, vector database, search tool, and business API — keeping teams model-agnostic and allowing migration between providers without rewriting agent logic.
Use Cases
- For engineering teams building production agents: A development team uses LangGraph to architect a multi-step research agent with memory and tool use, LangSmith for tracing and evaluation during development, and LangSmith Deployment to host it in production with autoscaling.
- For enterprises standardizing agent development: An enterprise engineering platform team deploys LangSmith as the organization-wide observability and evaluation layer — capturing every agent trace, enforcing evaluation standards, and managing agents through a centralized registry.
- For non-technical teams deploying AI workflows: A business operations team uses LangSmith Fleet to build and deploy recurring intelligence workflows (competitive monitoring, briefing generation) in plain language, without requiring developer time for each new agent.
Pricing MODELS
Open-source free
Pricing Summary
LangChain and LangGraph frameworks: free and open-source (MIT license). LangSmith: Developer plan free (5,000 traces/month); Plus at $39/seat/month; Enterprise is custom-quoted (self-hosted or BYOC deployments available). LangSmith Deployment billing is per deployment run on Plus; Enterprise pricing is customized.
Company Size Fit
Enterprise Mid-market SMB
Technical Snapshot
API Available
Yes
LLM Provider
Multi-model
Open Source
Yes
Deployment Options
Cloud Saas, On-premise, Self-hosted
Notable Customers
Zapier, Elastic, Rakuten