Tool profile
Managed deployment and runtime layer for LangGraph agents, sold through LangChain’s LangSmith platform with observability, auth, state, and pay-as-you-go deployment pricing.
LangGraph deployment
LangGraph Platform belongs in the catalog because it addresses the moment where a LangGraph prototype has to become a real deployment. LangChain’s current product packaging routes this through LangSmith deployment and platform pricing, but the underlying buying decision is still very recognizable: do you want a managed platform for long-running LangGraph agents with built-in observability, auth, state, and production controls.
That is a meaningful stack layer. A lot of teams are comfortable building agents with frameworks, but deployment is where the actual operational friction begins. LangGraph Platform earns inclusion because LangChain is one of the few vendors publishing both free entry pricing and explicit deployment meter pricing for this layer instead of leaving the whole product in a vague enterprise bucket.
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Editorial take
This entry should be framed as the managed deployment and operations layer around LangGraph, even though LangChain’s broader commercial language now lives under LangSmith. The deployment economics are the real buyer signal here.
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Free planLLMOps
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Pricing snapshot
LangGraph Platform currently has a Developer tier at $0/seat/month plus pay-as-you-go usage, a Plus tier at $39/seat/month plus usage, and Enterprise pricing on request; public deployment meters include $0.001 per node execution beyond the included dev deployment and uptime pricing from $0.0007/minute for development deployments.
AgentOps
Free planAgent observability
Observability for AI agents with tracing, debugging, session visibility, and production monitoring.
Closer to agent observability than to model hosting or prompt tooling
