Langfuse

platform active freemium

An open-source LLM engineering platform for observability, analytics, and evaluation. Langfuse provides tracing for LLM applications, prompt management, evaluation pipelines, and cost tracking. It helps teams debug, analyze, and improve their LLM applications in production.

Implements

Concepts this tool claims to implement:

  • Benchmark primary

    Evaluation pipelines with human annotation, LLM-as-judge, and custom scorers. Track evaluation scores over time. A/B testing for prompts.

  • Prompt management with versioning, deployment, and rollback. Separate prompt changes from code deployments.

  • Faithfulness secondary

    Built-in and custom evaluators for measuring generation quality. Supports hallucination detection evaluators.

Integration Surfaces

  • Python SDK
  • JavaScript/TypeScript SDK
  • REST API
  • LangChain integration
  • LlamaIndex integration
  • OpenAI SDK wrapper
  • Web dashboard

Details

Vendor
Langfuse GmbH
License
MIT (core) / Commercial (cloud)
Runs On
local, cloud, hybrid
Used By
human, system

Notes

Langfuse is the leading open-source alternative to LangSmith. Can be self-hosted or used as managed cloud service. Strong focus on developer experience and integrations. The open-source nature makes it popular with teams that want control over their observability data.