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LLMOps & AI Infrastructure

$12.8B market growing at 40% CAGR. AI development platforms projected at $68B by 2030.

Growth Overview

40%
CAGR
+95%
YoY Growth
+350%
Search Growth
$68.4B
by 2030

12-Month Trend

Growth Rate

0%25%50%

Market Size Projection

$12.8B
Current (2025)
$68.4B
by 2030

Overview

The tooling layer for building, deploying, and operating LLM-powered applications. Covers prompt management, model evaluation, cost optimization, hallucination detection, and observability. AI development platforms, MLOps, and AI governance represent a $12.8B market in 2025, projected to reach $68.4B by 2030 at 40.1% CAGR. AI-native app spend grew 393% in large enterprises.

What's Driving This Growth?

  • AI-native application spend grew 393% in large enterprises in 2025
  • LLM API costs are the #1 line item concern for AI product teams
  • EU AI Act high-risk obligations taking effect August 2026 demand audit trails and eval documentation
  • Model switching between providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source) requires abstraction layers

Market Signals

  • AI development platforms reached $12.8B market, fastest-growing SaaS category at 181% app growth
  • Braintrust raised $36M for AI eval and prompt management platform
  • Helicone, an open-source LLM proxy, hit 4B+ logged requests

SaaS Opportunities

Specific product ideas and niches within this trend where you could build and launch a micro-SaaS product:

LLM cost optimization and model routing (cheapest model for each task)
Automated eval suites for domain-specific AI (legal, medical, finance)
Prompt version control and A/B testing platforms
AI output quality monitoring with drift detection
Compliance and audit tools for AI decision-making

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