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Vignesh Reddy
Vignesh Reddy

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Helicone got acquired. Langfuse got acquired. Here's what I built instead.

In the last 6 months:

  • Helicone was acquired by Mintlify → maintenance mode
  • Langfuse was acquired by ClickHouse → January 2026

Both tools are still usable. But the pattern
is clear: every LLM observability tool
eventually gets acquired or goes cloud-only.

For teams in regulated industries — healthcare,
finance, government — that's not acceptable.
Your prompts cannot leave your server.

So I built Ajah.

One docker-compose up. Everything runs on
your infrastructure:

  • Gateway proxy — 9 providers, <2ms overhead
  • Cost attribution — per user, per feature, per model
  • PII masking — before anything hits storage
  • Hallucination flagging — async, zero latency
  • RAG verification — catches contradictions against your source documents
  • Claim density scoring — flags responses with many specific claims on low-context prompts
  • Prometheus /metrics — plug into your existing Grafana stack
  • Multi-agent session tracing — visual step tree, per-step cost visibility

No cloud dependency. No vendor lock-in.
No acquisition risk.

MIT license. Free forever for self-hosted use.

→ github.com/VigneshReddy-afk/ajah
→ useajah.com

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