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