Langfuse

Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, evaluation, prompt management and experiments across the AI app lifecycle.

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Langfuse records what your LLM app actually did on each request: the prompt that went out, the model's answer, token counts, cost, latency, and every retrieval or tool step in between. Without that record, debugging a non-deterministic agent is mostly guessing, and you have no real traffic to run evaluations against.

The core unit is a trace made of nested observations (LLM calls, spans, tool calls), grouped into sessions and users. You send them with the typed Python or JS/TS SDK, which is built on OpenTelemetry, through one of its many framework integrations (OpenAI SDK, LangChain/LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM and others), or from any other language by pointing an OTLP exporter at its endpoint. The SDKs queue and batch events in the background rather than sending them inline.

On top of traces sit prompt management (versioned prompts fetched at runtime and linked to the traces they produced), datasets and experiments, scores from LLM-as-a-judge, code or human annotation, and dashboards and alerts. Langfuse Cloud runs in separate US, EU, Japan and HIPAA regions; the same codebase can be self-hosted with Docker Compose for testing or Kubernetes/Terraform for production.

Self-hosting for production means operating Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis and blob storage yourself, and a few add-on features need a license key. Cloud regions are fully separate, so switching region later means a new account and a data migration.

Where it fits

How Langfuse itself is built

30 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

Who uses it

33 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 43 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 28Subprocessor list 5Declared in code 44How evidence is collected →
giselleGiselle is an open-source tool for building and running AI workflows in a visual node ed…

“Langfuse gives us complete visibility into our AI workflows. From tracking token usage and costs across multiple LLM providers to tracing every generation and embedding operation, it's become essential for understanding how our users interact with AI. The tagging and session tracking features make debugging and optimization so much easier. Thank you for building such a powerful observability platform for LLMs!”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so +1 · source ↗
cogneeMemory for AI Agents in 6 lines of code

“Langfuse is our choice when observability and tracing are the key. Our clients love their tool and we do too!”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
Agentplace.ioAI agents that serve your customers

“Observability for LLM apps and agents Langfuse helps us trace, debug, and improve agent quality across the platform.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
stagewiseThe frontend coding agent for existing codebases

“Marc gave me an in-person onboarding in SF - I found an issue in our LLM provider config just 30 minutes after the onboarding thanks to Langfuse. 10/10 recommendation”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
Lamatic.aiLamatic is a platform for building AI agents in a visual editor and deploying them as se…

“Built in integration for the best LLM observability out there.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
Magic PatternsMagic Patterns is an AI design tool that generates interactive UI prototypes and mockups…

“Langfuse powers our LLM observability. Without Langfuse, our AI agent would not be best-in-class. We have been using Langfuse since nearly the beginning: 2+ years!”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
OrangoIncrease user activation with an AI Agent in your product

“Langfuse helps us manage LLM observability, metrics, and prompts.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
FinyuusA code-first language for durable, governed AI workflows

“needing to provide AI observability to users - natural choice.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
ImagineBuild something real with the most complete AI builder

“Shoutout to the team at Langfuse for building a robust observability and evaluation platform for AI systems. Langfuse is a core part of Imagine.dev’s agentic architecture, giving us deep visibility into agent behavior and model performance as we iterate and scale. Their focus on tracing, metrics, and developer tooling has been critical to making our system reliable in production.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
Relay.appBuild an AI team that works for you

“Langfuse lets us monitor the quality and cost of all our AI features with ease. And our assistant likes to use it to improve itself.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
MCP-Builder.aiThe fastest way to connect your data with your AI Tools.

“We use Langfuse to keep track of our LLM prompts while building MCP-Builder.ai. It’s a great tool that makes it easy to monitor and analyze prompt performance, helping us improve quickly and efficiently.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
YapifySpeak your emails

“Without Langfuse, we would have been flying blind with our drafting agent. This platform is critical not just for measuring performance, but for understanding exactly what context gets pulled into our drafting agent. The key benefits of Langfuse are: 1) (Real-time) visibility into agent performance 2) Detailed tracing that shows our system's decision-making process including the context 3) Open source with self-hosting options (huge win for us) Being able to host Langfuse on our own infrastructure while getting enterprise-grade LLM observability is exactly what we needed. Highly recommended for teams serious about understanding how their LLM systems actually work and to figure out how to improve them.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
AutonomyAIBetter Delivery, Built with Autonomy

“Langfuse is an amazing tool, it helps us evaluate quality and keep track on our LLM activity!”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗
Pebbles AiAI sales platform for modern B2B teams

“When you're building agentic AI workflows, observability isn't optional – it's survival. Langfuse gives us full traceability across our LLM pipelines. We can see exactly what's happening inside each agent call, catch regressions early, and continuously improve output quality. It's open-source, deeply integratable, and one of the most thoughtfully built tools in the LLM engineering space. If you're building anything with LLMs and you're not using Langfuse, you're flying blind.”

LLM Observability & EvalsMaker says so · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares Langfuse as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

What makers say

24 makers on why they use Langfuse, in their own words on Product Hunt.

Without Langfuse, we would have been flying blind with our drafting agent. This platform is critical not just for measuring performance, but for understanding exactly what context gets pulled into our drafting agent. The key benefits of Langfuse are: 1) (Real-time) visibility into agent performance 2) Detailed tracing that shows our system's decision-making process including the context 3) Open source with self-hosting options (huge win for us) Being able to host Langfuse on our own infrastructure while getting enterprise-grade LLM observability is exactly what we needed. Highly recommended for teams serious about understanding how their LLM systems actually work and to figure out how to improve them.
YapifySep 2026 ↗
Without Langfuse, we would have been flying blind with our drafting agent. This platform is critical not just for measuring performance, but for understanding exactly what context gets pulled into our drafting agent. The key benefits of Langfuse are: 1) (Real-time) visibility into agent performance 2) Detailed tracing that shows our system's decision-making process including the context 3) Open source with self-hosting options (huge win for us) Being able to host Langfuse on our own infrastructure while getting enterprise-grade LLM observability is exactly what we needed. Highly recommended for teams serious about understanding how their LLM systems actually work and to figure out how to improve them.
YapifyJul 2025 ↗
When you're building agentic AI workflows, observability isn't optional – it's survival. Langfuse gives us full traceability across our LLM pipelines. We can see exactly what's happening inside each agent call, catch regressions early, and continuously improve output quality. It's open-source, deeply integratable, and one of the most thoughtfully built tools in the LLM engineering space. If you're building anything with LLMs and you're not using Langfuse, you're flying blind.
Pebbles AiSep 2026 ↗
Langfuse gives us complete visibility into our AI workflows. From tracking token usage and costs across multiple LLM providers to tracing every generation and embedding operation, it's become essential for understanding how our users interact with AI. The tagging and session tracking features make debugging and optimization so much easier. Thank you for building such a powerful observability platform for LLMs!
giselleSep 2026 ↗
Shoutout to the team at Langfuse for building a robust observability and evaluation platform for AI systems. Langfuse is a core part of Imagine.dev’s agentic architecture, giving us deep visibility into agent behavior and model performance as we iterate and scale. Their focus on tracing, metrics, and developer tooling has been critical to making our system reliable in production.
ImagineSep 2026 ↗

Loved and watch-outs

Themes that recur in makers' words and Hacker News comments, each linked to what it summarises, with how Product Hunt tags its reviews.

Most loved
  • Detailed traces show each agent call and the context it pulled, which makes debugging agent behaviour much easier. PHPH 2HN
  • Token usage and cost are tracked across providers alongside quality, in one place. PHPH 2HN
  • Open source and self-hostable, a common default for teams wanting tracing on their own infrastructure. PHHNHN 2HN 3
  • Integrates through OpenTelemetry and native integrations in other AI tools. HNPHPH 2
Watch-outs
  • Prompt management and experiments feel basic next to the tracing core. HNHN 2HN 3
  • Views are retrospective dashboards, so explaining one run's cost or failure still means reading trace trees by hand. HNHN 2HN 3HN 4
  • The ClickHouse acquisition raised GDPR and data-residency concerns for EU users of the cloud version. HNHN 2
  • Self-hosting is heavy, with ClickHouse eating disk space and several storage dependencies to run. HNHN 2HN 3
On Product Hunt 5.0★ · 48 reviews
LLM observability 11open source 6detailed tracing 5monitoring capabilities 4cost-effective 3easy to integrate 3free tier 3SDK availability 3
Read the reviews on Product Hunt ↗

Reliability and open issues

Incidents on its status page15 in the last 90 days, 1 major · 25+ in the last year
  • major Degraded ingestion for 20 projects Sep 2026
  • minor Elevated error rates in In App Agent Sep 2026
  • minor OTEL ingestion queue delay over 10 minutes in US Sep 2026
From its own status page, 2026-10-02. Vendors decide what they post; one page can cover several products.
Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in langfuse/langfuse, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

Who switches

Public pull requests on GitHub since Oct 2024 whose title says "X to Y" — real code changes moving a project from one tool to another, by developers in general. Open a row to see the pull requests.

LangSmith → Langfuse9 PRs

Alternatives to Langfuse

All alternatives by situation →

On Product Hunt, people weigh it against: LangChain, Helicone.

Questions makers ask about Langfuse

Where is my data stored on Langfuse Cloud?

You pick a region at sign-up, US (Oregon), EU (Ireland), Japan (Tokyo) or a dedicated HIPAA region, all on AWS. Regions share no accounts or data, so moving later means creating a new account and migrating. source ↗

Is it SOC 2 compliant, and can I use it with health data?

Langfuse Cloud is covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits and offers a DPA for GDPR. For PHI there is a separate HIPAA-ready region where customers on the Pro plan or higher can sign a BAA. source ↗

What does self-hosting involve?

You run the same containers as Langfuse Cloud (a web and a worker container) plus Postgres, Redis or Valkey, ClickHouse and S3-compatible storage. Docker Compose is meant for local use and testing; for production they provide Helm and Terraform for AWS, Azure and GCP. source ↗

Can I send traces from a language other than Python or TypeScript?

Yes. Langfuse accepts OpenTelemetry traces on its OTLP endpoint, so any language with an OpenTelemetry SDK, or OTel-based instrumentation libraries, can export spans to it. source ↗

Does tracing add latency to my requests?

The SDKs and integrations queue events and send them in batches in the background, based on batch size and a flush interval. In short-lived processes such as serverless functions you call flush before exiting so queued events are not lost. source ↗

How long is trace data kept?

Each Cloud plan has a data access window (30 days on Hobby). Custom per-project retention, with a minimum of 3 days, is available on paid plans; without a policy, stored data is not deleted automatically. source ↗

Can I move between self-hosted and Cloud later?

Yes. Langfuse publishes a Python migration cookbook that copies traces, prompts and datasets between a self-hosted instance and Langfuse Cloud, or between two instances. source ↗

Is Langfuse free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $29/mo. source ↗

Is Langfuse open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with Langfuse?

It serves an llms.txt docs index; it has an official CLI (langfuse-cli).

Who uses Langfuse?

33 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 43 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗