LangChain in-house or an agent platform? A guide for regulated enterprises
LangChain is an open-source framework: it helps engineers write agent code. Used on its own, everything around that code is yours to build and run, and a regulated enterprise needs a lot around it: deployment inside your perimeter, an audit trail, approvals, budgets, personal data checks and control over models. aixplain provides those as one OS, in our cloud or on your own servers, while your engineers keep writing agents in code with Koder and the Agents SDK.
What you build around a framework
- Hosting inside your perimeter: on-prem, in your VPC or air-gapped
- A record of every run that your auditors can follow
- Approvals before agents send, spend or connect
- Budgets, rate limits and an off switch
- Checks for personal data, jailbreaks and unsafe content
- Model choice, and switching models without rewrites
What the aixplain OS gives you
Those pieces come built in and work together. Inspectors check each input and output, every agent has an owner, a budget and an off switch, and every run records who ran it, each tool call, approvals, cost and errors.
Your engineers keep their code
Engineers build agents in their own code with Koder and the Agents SDK, then deploy them on aixplain. Teams outside engineering describe the work, and Omni creates the agent. The same policies apply to every agent, however it was created.
When a framework alone still fits
One team with one use case and no audit requirements can do well with a framework alone. Each agent you add after that needs the same controls, built and kept up by your team.