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Mala vs LangSmith

Production Governance for LangChain

The Core Difference

LangSmith monitors the engine; Mala seals the flight recorder. LangSmith is essential for tracing and debugging your LangChain apps. Mala is essential for ensuring those apps comply with enterprise policies and creating an immutable audit trail.

Feature Comparison4 features
Feature
Mala
LangSmith
Role in Stack
✓Governance & Policy Layer
DevOps & Tracing Layer
Human-in-the-Loop
✓First-Class Citizen (HTL Protocol)
Basic Annotation/Feedback
Audit Standard
✓Legal/Compliance (SOC2, HIPAA)
Engineering/Debugging
Integration
✓Works with LangSmith traces
Native to LangChain
Why Enterprise Teams Choose Mala

LangChain made building agents easy. LangSmith made debugging them manageable. Mala makes trusting them possible. Enterprises cannot deploy autonomous agents without strict governance. Mala provides the 'Human-in-the-Loop' enforcement and 'Policy-as-Code' checks that LangSmith doesn't focus on. We are the governance layer for your LangChain stack.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I replace LangSmith with Mala?

No. You should use them together. LangSmith gives your engineers visibility. Mala gives your compliance team peace of mind. We can even ingest LangSmith traces to seal them for long-term retention.

The decision is clear
Start Sealing Your Decisions

Don't just monitor what happened. Prove why it happened with Mala's cryptographic accountability layer.