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Langfuse vs Cursor

Open-source LLM engineering platform — observability, prompts, evals
vs. AI-native code editor — VS Code fork with deep AI integration

Langfuse website ↗Cursor website ↗

Pricing tiers

Langfuse

Hobby (Cloud Free)
Free. 50k units/month included. 30 days data access. 2 users. Community support.
Free
Self-Hosted (OSS)
MIT-licensed. Docker Compose or Kubernetes deployment. Unlimited.
$0 base (usage-based)
Core
$29/month. 100k units included ($8 per 100k overage). 90 days retention. Unlimited users. In-app support.
$29/mo
Pro
$199/month. 100k units included + same overage. 3 YEARS retention. Unlimited annotation queues. High rate limits.
$199/mo
Teams Add-on
+$300/month. Adds Enterprise SSO + fine-grained RBAC + dedicated Slack support to Pro.
$300/mo
Enterprise
$2,499/month. Everything + custom rate limits, uptime SLA, dedicated support engineer. Yearly options.
$2499/mo
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Cursor

Hobby (Free)
Free. Limited Agent requests + Tab completions. No credit card.
Free
Pro
$20/month. Extended Agent limits, frontier models, MCPs + skills + hooks, cloud agents.
$20/mo
Teams
$40/user/month. Shared chats + commands + rules, centralized billing, RBAC, SAML/OIDC SSO.
$40/mo
Pro+ (Recommended)
$60/month. Everything in Pro + 3x usage on OpenAI, Claude, Gemini.
$60/mo
Ultra
$200/month. 20x usage multiplier + priority access to new features.
$200/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Pooled usage, SCIM, AI code tracking API + audit logs, priority support.
Custom
Cursor website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing hobby on Langfuse vs hobby on Cursor.

MetricLangfuseCursor
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Langfuse · 16 features

  • Annotation Queues — Human reviewers rate traces. Unlimited on Pro+.
  • Dashboards — Aggregate metrics, cost, quality across projects.
  • Datasets — Curate test sets from production traces. Run experiments.
  • EU Cloud Region — GDPR-compliant hosting in EU.
  • Evaluations — LLM-as-judge, manual scores, custom model-graded evaluators.
  • LLM Cost Tracking — Automatic cost calculation per provider/model.
  • OpenTelemetry Native — OTel SDK → Langfuse endpoint works out of box.
  • Playground — Test prompts + models + variables live.
  • Prompt Management — Version, tag, label prompts. Reference from code by label.
  • Public API — Full REST API for ingest, query, prompt management.
  • Python @observe decorator — One-line decorator to trace any function.
  • Self-Hosting — Docker Compose + k8s Helm chart.
  • Sessions — Group related traces (conversations, agent runs).
  • Tracing — Capture every LLM call, tool call, nested span with inputs/outputs/cost.
  • Users Tracking — Segment traces by user ID, track per-user cost.
  • Webhooks — Subscribe to trace completion events.

Cursor · 15 features

  • Agent Mode — Autonomous multi-file editing + tool use. Runs terminal commands with confirmati…
  • Background Agents — Run agents in the cloud to tackle longer tasks async.
  • BugBot (PR reviews) — AI reviewer on GitHub PRs.
  • Chat (⌘L) — Conversational chat with codebase context.
  • Cmd-K Inline Edit — Highlight code + ⌘K → natural language edit instruction.
  • Codebase Indexing — Embedding-based semantic search over your codebase.
  • Composer — Multi-file edit sessions with full context.
  • .cursorrules / Project Rules — Custom system prompts per project to steer the AI.
  • MCP Support — Add Model Context Protocol servers to extend agent capabilities.
  • Privacy Mode — Data never used for training; zero-retention routing.
  • Skills & Hooks — User-defined skills library + lifecycle hooks.
  • Tab (multi-line completion) — Predictive completions including next-edit suggestions.
  • Team Shared Context — Share chats, commands, rules across team.
  • VS Code Extension Compat — Most VS Code extensions work via the marketplace.
  • YOLO Mode — Auto-approve all agent actions (for trusted workflows).

Developer interfaces

KindLangfuseCursor
CLI—Cursor CLI
SDKlangfuse-js, langfuse-python—
RESTLangfuse REST API—
MCPLangfuse MCP ServerCursor MCP support
OTHERLangfuse Dashboard, OpenTelemetry endpointCursor Desktop App, Cursor Rules (.cursorrules), Privacy Mode
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