AnchorShell Relay vs Retrace

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AnchorShell Relay compared with Retrace
Detail	AnchorShell Relay	Retrace
What it does	Smart AI routing gateway for LLM traffic management	The execution replay engine for AI agents
Stage	Not given	Not given
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	IN
Pricing model	Freemium	Freemium
Pricing	Self-hosted: Free. Free Hosted: $0/month (10,000 routed requests/month, 2 concurrent requests). Personal: $9/month ($9 billed monthly; 300,000 routed requests/month, 10 concurrent requests). Team: $49/month ($49 billed monthly; 3,000,000 routed requests/month, 100 concurrent requests; 10 people incl	Free plan includes 1,000 traces/mo and 7-day retention. Starter at $29/mo adds 10,000 traces/mo and 30-day retention. Pro at $99/mo includes 50,000 traces/mo, 90-day retention, and unlimited fork replays. Teams at $399/mo provides 500,000 traces/mo, 365-day retention, up to 10 users, and 1,000 prove
Key features	Request characterization and intent detection Smart Groups and model assignment Queue-first routing with fallbacks Per-user and per-API-key limits Pre and post-dispatch guardrails Real-time request tracing and analytics 100,000+ model compatibility OpenAI-compatible API Request queuing, pacing and cooldowns Provider cost tracking per request	Record every LLM call, tool call, and error with one decorator Step-by-step replay of agent executions Fork and cascade-replay from any failing step Prove-the-fix verification before shipping Runtime guardrails and circuit breakers CI/CD regression gates Multi-agent session tracking and topology graphs Automatic hallucination and drift detection Semantic search across agent runs PII auto-redaction on every plan
What makes it different	Route requests based on intent to optimize cost and latency without sending all work to expensive models Real-time visibility into every LLM request, decision, guardrail, and cost in one trace Enforce per-user, per-agent and organization-wide limits with attribution and audit trails Available as fully self-hosted open-source or managed cloud platform Fast built-in routing at 1-5ms latency or optional System One classifier for richer decisions	Turns production failures into regression tests that fail builds when behavior breaks
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	Not checked yet no change since last check	5 +2 (up) since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	17	20
Citation Flow (Majestic)	22	25
Referring domains (Majestic)	48	115

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