Pick Langfuse if
teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI.
Read the Langfuse pageLangfuse vs LangGraph
Our take
Pick Langfuse if teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI. Pick LangGraph if engineers who will stay on OSS + LangSmith Developer at $0/seat (5k traces) while they open a first _start_ → agent graph, then Plus at $39/seat when they need 10k traces and extra seats — not Enterprise first unless they need SSO / ABAC. Skip Langfuse if people who only want a gateway (LiteLLM) or a
Best for
Langfuse Debug and cost-track generations
LangGraph A graph you run at a public $
Free plan
Langfuse $0 · for the MIT core. ee/ is not the community license
LangGraph $0 · mIT on langchain-ai/langgraph
Lowest paid
Langfuse Enterprise $2/mo
LangGraph LSU $1.00
Next step up
Langfuse Core $29/mo
LangGraph LangSmith Plus $39
Coding agent
Langfuse
LangGraph Graph canvas
Runs where
Langfuse Local or hosted
LangGraph
Watch out
Langfuse Hobby is two users and 30-day retention
LangGraph Studio + traces are LangSmith
Last checked
Langfuse 2026-10-19 · langfuse.com/pricing
LangGraph 2026-10-23 · langchain.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick LangGraph if
engineers who will stay on OSS + LangSmith Developer at $0/seat (5k traces) while they open a first _start_ → agent graph, then Plus at $39/seat when they need 10k traces and extra seats — not Enterprise first unless they need SSO / ABAC.
Read the LangGraph page