Langfuse
Open-source LLM engineering platform for tracing, observability, prompt management, evals, experiments and human annotation.
Langfuse brings LLM observability, prompt management, evaluations, experiments and human annotation into a connected workflow. It is open source, self-hostable and designed to help teams debug, monitor and improve LLM applications and agents.
Positioning
Open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform
Key facts
- HQ location
- Berlin, Germany
- Founded
- 2023
- Employee range
- 11-50 (11-50)
- Funding stage
- Seed
- Company type
- Private (Private / open-source commercial)
- Pricing model
- Licensing Open Source Usage Based (Open-core with cloud plans, usage-based/seat-based and self-hosting options)
- Last updated
- Jun 21, 2026
Revenue estimate
Unknown / not publicly disclosed
Valuation estimate
Unknown
Investments
$4M seed (Lightspeed, YC, La Famiglia); funding not fully disclosed beyond seed
Target customers
AI engineers, developers and teams building LLM applications and agents
Key competitors
LangSmith, Helicone, PromptLayer, Arize AI, Braintrust, Galileo
Known customers
Unknown / not comprehensively disclosed
Classification (raw research text)
- Core focus
- LLM observability and evaluation
- Core industry
- Enterprise AI Development
- Core category
- LLM observability
Shown verbatim from the research spreadsheet — deriving structured segment/industry tags from this text is a future phase.
Attribute breakdown
- AI Workflows Secondary feature
- System / API Integration Secondary feature
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Primary focus
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
- AI / LLM Data Pipeline Secondary feature
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Primary focus
- AI Observability / Monitoring Primary focus
- Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Primary focus
- Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Secondary feature
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- AI Workflows Secondary feature
- AI Automation / Business Process Automation Not emphasized
- AI Fine-tuning / Custom Model Training Not emphasized
- Agent Builder / Agent Configuration Not emphasized
- Multi-agent Orchestration / Runtime Not emphasized
- System / API Integration Secondary feature
- Prompt Management / Prompt Engineering Primary focus
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation Secondary feature
- Graph RAG / Knowledge Graph Retrieval Not emphasized
- Enterprise Search / Knowledge Management Not emphasized
- AI / LLM Data Pipeline Secondary feature
- Document AI / Document Processing Not emphasized
- Model Deployment / Inference Infrastructure Not emphasized
- Traditional Machine Learning Not emphasized
- AI Quality Assurance / LLM Evaluation Primary focus
- AI Observability / Monitoring Primary focus
- AI Security / Guardrails Not emphasized
- Data Privacy / PII / Confidential AI Not emphasized
- AI Governance / Policy Management Not emphasized
- AI Risk / Compliance Not emphasized
- AI Asset Inventory / Model Registry Not emphasized
- Human-in-the-Loop Review / Feedback Primary focus
- Call Transcription / Speech-to-Text Data Capture Not emphasized
- Conversation Intelligence / Speech Analytics Not emphasized
- Text Chatbots / Conversational Assistants Not emphasized
- Voice AI Agents Not emphasized
- Voice Infrastructure / STT / TTS Not emphasized
- AI for Customer Experience / Support Automation Not emphasized
- Sales / Revenue Intelligence Not emphasized
- Analytics / BI / Decision Intelligence Secondary feature
- Enterprise App / Internal Tool Builder Not emphasized
- Vertical-Specific AI Not emphasized