Respan
LLM tracing, evals, and gateway
Ragas is an open-source framework specifically designed for evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications. The platform provides automatic metrics that help teams understand the performance and robustness of their LLM applications, with the ability to synthetically generate high-quality and diverse evaluation data customized for specific requirements. Ragas offers component-wise and end-to-end evaluation of RAG systems through key metrics including context relevance, context recall, context precision, faithfulness, and answer relevancy. The framework is built by a small, focused team including Shahul (Applied AI researcher and Kaggle Grandmaster) and Jithin James (Chief maintainer, previously at BentoML), with strong backing from Y Combinator and Pioneer Fund. Ragas has gained significant industry recognition, being endorsed by major frameworks including LlamaIndex and LangChain, and directly recommended by OpenAI at DevDay. The platform integrates easily with popular frameworks and provides production monitoring capabilities to evaluate and ensure quality in production environments.
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Developers building RAG applications who need specialized evaluation metrics
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