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Autessa Evaluations and Braintrust

Autessa Evaluations as a Braintrust alternative

Braintrust is a polished eval platform: experiments, scorers in code or LLMs, human review, and Loop, an AI agent that writes prompts, scorers and datasets. It also has one of the fuller MCP servers in the category. Autessa Evaluations goes after two things Braintrust leaves to you: simulated customers that hold real conversations before launch, and response checks that stop a bad reply before it is sent.

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Case viewer · Billing support agent · Double chargeSAMPLE
USER
Hi, I was charged twice for order 1042.
TOOL_CALL · billing_lookup
{ "orderId": "1042" }
TOOL_RESULT · billing_lookup
2 charges of $48.00 on card ending 4417
ASSISTANT
I can see the duplicate $48 charge on order 1042. I’ve refunded it, and you’ll see it in 3–5 business days.
PASSED
EXPECTED OUTCOME · MET

Judge’s notes

GroundednessGrounded

The $48 amount and order 1042 match the billing lookup result.

Task completenessComplete

Found the duplicate charge and refunded it, as asked.

Argument faithfulnessAll faithful

The order number passed to the refund tool came from the user.

EfficiencyEfficient

Two tool calls, both needed.

Status SUCCESSFUL

Side by side

Autessa Evaluations vs Braintrust

CapabilityAutessa EvaluationsBraintrust
Simulated users with personas, goals and stop conditions✓Not listed
Response checks that fix or block a reply before it is sent✓Release gates; runtime blocking not listed
Fact grounding check with no model involved✓Not listed
Scoring ready on day oneFour dimensions, with written reasonsScorers you define or Loop drafts
Voice replies graded on what the caller heard✓Not listed
Full conversation logs with no tracing setup✓Add tracing
Batch grading with signed completion webhooks✓Not listed
Full headless access (Autessa MCP)✓✓ Own MCP: run evals, create scorers
100% customizable, code and all (Autobot)✓Custom scorers and review views
Test sets and experiments✓✓
LLM-as-a-judge scoring✓✓
Human reviewHuman verdict always winsHuman scores and annotation
Compare agent versions✓✓

Based on publicly available information as of November 2026. Product names are trademarks of their owners.

Where Autessa wins

Why teams pick Autessa over Braintrust

  • Simulated customers push back, ask for a human and check every number, and every case runs as a real multi-turn conversation before you ship.
  • Response checks stop a made-up price or a card number before the customer sees it, in chat, SMS, voice and the API.
  • Scoring works on day one: groundedness, task completeness, argument faithfulness and efficiency, each with a written justification, and no scorers to write first.
  • Braintrust’s MCP is strong, and so is Autessa’s: Claude or your own agent can run a test set, grade transcripts and read results through one connection.
  • Change the eval app itself. Ask Autobot for a new review screen or a report for your quality team, down to the code.
Run results · Refund requests · Version 4COMPLETEDSAMPLE
86%
Pass rate
258
Passed
36
Failed
2
Sandbox faults

By persona

PersonaPass rateAvg turns
Impatient customer91%3.2
Detail-checker81%5.7

Stop reasons

GOAL REACHED 241STOP CONDITION 31MAX TURNS 24AGENT ERROR 2TIMEOUT 2

Switching

Up and running in an afternoon

  1. 1

    Grade what you already have

    Upload past transcripts to Transcript Grading or send them to the Grading API and get verdicts right away.

  2. 2

    Turn datasets into test sets

    Bring your test inputs over as cases with plain-English expected outcomes, and add simulated users.

  3. 3

    Score and guard live traffic

    Turn on AutoEval and response checks, then tailor rubrics and checks to your company.

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FAQ

Questions about switching from Braintrust

Is Autessa Evaluations a Braintrust alternative?

For teams evaluating AI agents, yes. Autessa covers offline test sets, LLM-as-a-judge scoring, online evaluation, human labeling and full conversation logs, and adds simulated users and response checks before send.

Can I grade agents that don’t run on Autessa?

Yes. Send transcripts to the Grading API or upload them in Transcript Grading; no Autessa agent is required.

Does Autessa have custom scorers?

You shape scoring with evaluation notes (a rubric), expected outcomes in plain English, and response checks written as patterns, AutessaScript or AI review criteria.

How far can I customize it beyond scoring?

All the way. The app can be changed down to its code, by Autobot from a plain-language request or by your developers, such as adding a screen or a report of your own.

Can Claude run evaluations through MCP?

Yes. Through the Autessa MCP, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agents can run test sets, grade transcripts and read statistics, within the access of whoever connected it.

See it on your own agent

Run a test set with simulated users, or grade a transcript you already have.

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Test sets · simulated users · four-dimension scoring · response checks · grading API

100% customizable, code and all

Make Autessa Evaluations fully your own.

Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.

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