Pick Langfuse if
teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI.
Read the Langfuse pageLangfuse vs OpenLIT
Our take
Pick Langfuse if you're on a team shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI. Pick OpenLIT if you're on a team who will self-host OpenLIT at $0 (you bring compute) — not Langfuse first unless they want that Cloud tile. Skip Langfuse if you're people who only want a gateway (LiteLLM) or a framework (LangChain) without an observability SKU.
Best for
Langfuse Debug and cost-track generations
OpenLIT Apache OTel traces you run yourself
Free plan
Langfuse $0 · for the MIT core. ee/ is not the community license
OpenLIT $0 · docker / local. You bring machines
Lowest paid
Langfuse Enterprise $2/mo
OpenLIT Not published by the vendor
Next step up
Langfuse Core $29/mo
OpenLIT
Runs where
Langfuse Local or hosted
OpenLIT Local or hosted
Watch out
Langfuse Hobby is two users and 30-day retention
OpenLIT $0 is the license, not your cluster
Last checked
Langfuse 2026-10-19 · langfuse.com/pricing
OpenLIT 2026-10-27 · docs.openlit.io
Which one, then?
Pick OpenLIT if
teams who will self-host OpenLIT at $0 (you bring compute) — not Langfuse first unless they want that Cloud tile.
Read the OpenLIT page