Pick Langfuse if
teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI.
Read the Langfuse pageLangfuse vs SigNoz
Our take
Pick Langfuse if teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI. Pick SigNoz if platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included usage and no cluster to run. Skip Langfuse if people who only want a gateway (LiteLLM) or a framework (LangChain) without an
Best for
Langfuse Debug and cost-track generations
SigNoz APM you start at $0 OSS or $49 Cloud
Free plan
Langfuse $0 · for the MIT core. ee/ is not the community license
SigNoz $0 · self-host. You run the cluster, storage, upgrades, and backups. Community Slack. No Teams chat / email support
Lowest paid
Langfuse Enterprise $2/mo
SigNoz Enterprise $4/mo
Next step up
Langfuse Core $29/mo
SigNoz Startup program $19/mo
Runs where
Langfuse Local or hosted
SigNoz Local; you host it
Watch out
Langfuse Hobby is two users and 30-day retention
SigNoz Cloud has a $49 floor
Last checked
Langfuse 2026-10-19 · langfuse.com/pricing
SigNoz 2026-10-22 · signoz.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick SigNoz if
platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included usage and no cluster to run.
Read the SigNoz page