Pick Langfuse if
teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI.
Read the Langfuse pageLangfuse vs LiteLLM
Our take
Pick Langfuse if teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI. Pick LiteLLM if platform teams who already pay model vendors and want keys, budgets, and fallbacks in one proxy. Skip Langfuse if people who only want a gateway (LiteLLM) or a framework (LangChain) without an observability SKU. Skip LiteLLM if people who want a local chat app (Ollama) or traces-first observability
Best for
Langfuse Debug and cost-track generations
LiteLLM One proxy in front of many model APIs
Free plan
Langfuse $0 · for the MIT core. ee/ is not the community license
LiteLLM $0 · , “free forever” on the page. You still pay upstream model APIs
Lowest paid
Langfuse Enterprise $2/mo
LiteLLM Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Langfuse Core $29/mo
LiteLLM
Coding agent
Langfuse
LiteLLM Playground / Models / Agents / MCP / Guardrails
Runs where
Langfuse Local or hosted
LiteLLM Local; you host it
Watch out
Langfuse Hobby is two users and 30-day retention
LiteLLM $0 is the proxy, not the tokens
Last checked
Langfuse 2026-10-19 · langfuse.com/pricing
LiteLLM 2026-10-19 · litellm.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick LiteLLM if
platform teams who already pay model vendors and want keys, budgets, and fallbacks in one proxy.
Read the LiteLLM page