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forever
Self-managed infrastructure (PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis, S3)
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50K units/month, 30-day retention, 2 users
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100K units included, $8/100K overage
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100K units included, $8/100K overage
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Custom based on requirements
Pricing sourced from Langfuse · Last verified March 2026
Langfuse offers significant advantages: it's fully open-source with self-hosting at complete feature parity (LangSmith is closed-source cloud-only), includes unlimited users on all paid tiers (LangSmith charges $39/seat that scales with team size), and provides a more generous free tier (50K units vs limited). For teams needing data residency, avoiding vendor lock-in, or controlling costs as they scale, Langfuse is the superior choice.
ClickHouse's 2026 acquisition accelerates Langfuse development while maintaining its open-source nature. Users benefit from enhanced performance (ClickHouse's expertise in high-performance analytics), faster feature development, and stronger enterprise support. The self-hosted option remains fully open-source with feature parity, and existing cloud plans continue unchanged with improved infrastructure backing.
Yes, extensively. Langfuse is trusted by 19 of the Fortune 50 including Khan Academy, Merck, Canva, and Adobe. It provides SOC2 Type II, ISO27001, and HIPAA compliance (with BAA), enterprise SSO, SCIM API, audit logs, and scales to millions of traces. The self-hosted option enables complete data residency and air-gapped deployments for the most sensitive applications.
Unlike competitors that charge per seat ($39+ per user), Langfuse includes unlimited users on all paid tiers ($29 Core, $199 Pro, $2,499 Enterprise). This means your costs stay predictable as your engineering team grows, making it ideal for scaling organizations. You pay only for usage (traces/evaluations) and features, not headcount.
A 'unit' is any billable event: traces (conversation threads), observations (individual LLM calls, tool executions), and scores (evaluation results). A simple chatbot conversation might use 2-3 units, while a complex multi-agent workflow could consume 10-20 units. At 50K units/month (Hobby), that supports roughly 25K simple interactions or 5K complex agent workflows.
Self-hosted Langfuse provides battle-tested infrastructure used by Fortune 50 companies, comprehensive SDK integrations, continuous feature development, and community support - without the massive engineering investment required for internal solutions. Most teams underestimate the complexity of building production-grade observability, evaluation frameworks, and prompt management systems from scratch.
Langfuse requires PostgreSQL (transactional data), ClickHouse (observability data), Redis/Valkey (cache/queue), and S3-compatible storage (events/attachments). For production: 4+ CPU cores, 8GB+ RAM, SSD storage. Deploy via Docker Compose (testing), Kubernetes with Helm charts, or Terraform modules for AWS/Azure/GCP. Scales from single-node to multi-region deployments.
Unlike tools that log individual LLM calls in isolation, Langfuse captures parent-child relationships between all operations in your AI workflow. You can trace a user query through retrieval → context filtering → prompt construction → LLM generation → tool calling → response formatting, seeing exactly where failures occur and how changes propagate through multi-step agent workflows.
Langfuse offers automated LLM-as-judge evaluators, human annotation queues with inline comments, dataset management, and experiment comparison. You can create regression test datasets from production data, run A/B tests on prompt variants, score outputs for quality/safety, and build continuous evaluation pipelines. The 2026 update includes categorical scoring and individual operation evaluation for more precise assessment.
Langfuse provides client-side data masking, supports air-gapped self-hosted deployments, offers EU/US data residency options, and maintains certifications for SOC2 Type II, ISO27001, GDPR, and HIPAA. Enterprise features include audit logs, RBAC, SSO enforcement, and dedicated security support. Self-hosting ensures complete data control for the most sensitive applications.
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