> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://arize-ax.mintlify.dev/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Python SDK

> Official Python client library for the Arize platform. Instrument, monitor, and improve AI and ML applications with comprehensive observability tools.

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The Arize Python SDK is the official client library for interacting with the Arize platform.
It enables AI and ML engineers to instrument, monitor, and improve their applications
through comprehensive observability tools.

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  Complete version-specific reference documentation. It includes class and method
  signatures, parameter descriptions, return types, code examples, etc.
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## What You Can Do

* **LLM Observability**: Trace and evaluate LLM applications using OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
* **Experimentation**: Create datasets, run experiments, and track model performance
* **Evaluation**: Analyze and improve model quality with automated evaluation frameworks
* **ML Monitoring**: Log predictions and actuals for traditional ML models (classification, regression, ranking, etc.)

## Choose Your Version

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## Version Support

The following table shows the support timeline for each major version of the Arize Python SDK:

| Major Release | First Released  | Latest                                    | Support              |
| ------------- | --------------- | ----------------------------------------- | -------------------- |
| 8.x           | February, 2026  | [latest](https://pypi.org/project/arize/) | Ends June 1st, 2029  |
| 7.x           | June, 2023      | 7.52.0                                    | Ends March 1st, 2027 |
| 6.x           | January, 2023   | 6.1.3                                     | ❌ June 1st, 2025     |
| 5.x           | August, 2022    | 5.5.0                                     | ❌ November 1st, 2024 |
| 4.x           | March, 2022     | 4.2.2                                     | ❌ June 1st, 2024     |
| 3.x           | September, 2021 | 3.4.0                                     | ❌ April 1st, 2024    |
| 2.x           | March, 2021     | 2.2.1                                     | ❌ July 1st, 2023     |
| 1.x           | July, 2020      | 1.2.1                                     | ❌ March 1st, 2022    |
| 0.x           | March, 2020     | 0.0.20                                    | ❌ March 1st, 2022    |

We recommend upgrading to the latest version to receive the newest features, improvements, and security updates.