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Ragas alternatives

The strongest open-source alternatives to Ragas for building AI agents — evals & testing ranked by GitHub traction, each with a head-to-head.

Ragas (★ 15k) is Evaluation toolkit for RAG pipelines — faithfulness, answer relevancy, and context metrics without ground truth. If it is not the right fit, these 2 evals & testing cover the same ground — promptfoo is the most-starred option below. Or browse the best evals & testing and Ragas's own page.

1. promptfoo

★ 23k · TypeScript

Test-driven prompt and agent development — evals, red-teaming, and side-by-side model comparison from the CLI. Best for prompt evals.

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2. DeepEval

★ 16k · Python

Pytest-like framework for unit-testing LLM outputs with metrics for hallucination, relevancy, and bias. Best for LLM unit tests.

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