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Langfuse vs Plausible Analytics

Open-source LLM engineering platform — observability, prompts, evals
vs. Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare

Langfuse website ↗Plausible Analytics ↗

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
Langfuse website ↗

Plausible Analytics

Self-Hosted (CE)
Community Edition — AGPL-licensed, run on your own infra.
$0 base (usage-based)
Starter
$9/month. 1 site. Basic dashboard, goals, 3-year data retention.
$9/mo
Growth
$14/month. 3 sites + 3 team members. Shared dashboards + team mgmt.
$14/mo
Business
$19/month. 10 sites + 10 members. Custom properties, API access, funnels, 5-year retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, managed proxy, priority support.
Custom
Plausible Analytics ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing hobby on Langfuse vs starter on Plausible Analytics.

MetricLangfusePlausible Analytics
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.

Plausible Analytics · 16 features

  • 404 Error Tracking — Auto-detect 404 pages.
  • Custom Properties — Attach arbitrary properties to events (Business+).
  • Email/Slack Reports — Weekly + monthly reports to email/Slack.
  • File Download Tracking — Track PDF/DOC/ZIP downloads.
  • Funnels — Multi-step funnel analysis (Business+).
  • Goals & Conversions — Track custom events + pageview-based goals.
  • Import from Google Analytics — Import historical GA data via script.
  • Managed Proxy (Ent) — Proxy plausible.io through your domain to bypass ad-blockers.
  • Outbound Link Tracking — One-line extension to track outbound clicks.
  • Revenue Goals — Track $ amounts per goal. Great for e-commerce.
  • Self-Hosting — Run via Docker. AGPL Community Edition.
  • Shared Dashboards — Public or password-protected share links.
  • Single-page Dashboard — All your metrics on one page: visitors, pageviews, sources, devices, countries, …
  • Stats API — Pull data into your own tools via REST. Business+.
  • Team Management — Owners, admins, viewers per site.
  • UTM Campaigns — Track utm_source/medium/campaign automatically.

Developer interfaces

KindLangfusePlausible Analytics
SDKlangfuse-js, langfuse-python@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)
RESTLangfuse REST APIEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management API
MCPLangfuse MCP Server—
OTHERLangfuse Dashboard, OpenTelemetry endpointTracker Script (<script>)
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