Athina AI blog · Jul 2026
Case study claims Athina helped Meesho cut per-chat evaluation costs by 80-85% and roll out GPT-4o mini to millions of users in three days.
Prototype, Experiment & Evaluate AI Pipelines in a Spreadsheet-like UI
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 30, 2026
Overview
Athina AI is a San Francisco-based YC W23 startup building a collaborative IDE and monitoring/evaluation platform for production AI/LLM applications, with public customers including Perplexity, Meesho, PhysicsWallah, Doximity, and You.com.
Primary product
Athina IDE / collaborative AI development platform for building, testing, evaluating, and monitoring AI/LLM applications
Founded
2022
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10 employees
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
LLM observability and evaluation platform
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States (HQ)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Remote
Business model
SaaS
freemium
subscription
enterprise software
People & investors
Work & culture
Public messaging emphasizes a collaborative, test-driven workflow for AI engineers, rapid experimentation, open-source evaluators, and shipping safe, reliable production AI.
Work style
Flexible
Visa sponsorship
No
Compensation
A public Founding Software Engineer posting lists $150K-$200K plus equity; the role is on-site but flexible working.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium SaaS with custom quote-based enterprise pricing
Differentiators
- —Spreadsheet-like collaborative IDE for AI development
- —50+ preset evaluators plus custom evals
- —Unified prompt management, experimentation, observability, and annotation
- —Self-hosted/private VPC deployment and SOC-2 Type 2 enterprise option
- —Integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ragas, and Guardrails
- —Analytics segmented by customer ID, model, prompt, environment, and topic
- —Supports custom models including Azure OpenAI and AWS Bedrock
Technology
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Ragas
Guardrails
GraphQL API
Python/CLI
LLM-as-a-judge
Azure OpenAI
AWS Bedrock
Open-source evals SDK
Customers
Perplexity
Meesho
PhysicsWallah
Doximity
You.com
Richpanel
CourtCorrect
Vetted
OfOne
Competitors
Portkey
Fiddler Labs
Nota
Capacity
LILT
Vengo AI
Scale & contact
Latest news
Athina AI blog · Jul 2026
Case study describes Athina IDE being used for underwriting workflows, benchmarking models such as Llama 3.1, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4o, and enabling technical/non-technical collaboration.
Inc42 · Nov 2024
Confirms the $3M seed round, describes Athina AI as a SaaS platform for AI experiments, monitoring, and evaluation, and says the company relocated HQ from India to San Francisco.
YourStory · Nov 2024
Reports Athina AI raised $3M in seed funding, bringing total funding to $4.1M, and names investors including Denis Yarats, Alex Ratner, Kleiner Perkins Scout Fund, and Y Combinator.
Athina AI blog · Oct 2023
Early product announcement describing Athina as an LLM monitoring and evaluation platform and pointing users to the website, GitHub, and demos.
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