Weaviate vs Langfuse

Weaviate

Langfuse

Weaviate · 13 features

• Backups — S3, GCS, Azure Blob backup destinations.
• BYOC — Run managed Weaviate in your own cloud account.
• Compression (PQ/BQ/RQ) — Reduce vector memory footprint by up to 32x.
• Dynamic Indexing — HNSW + flat + dynamic index selection.
• Generative Search — Search + RAG answers in one API call.
• Hybrid Search — Combine BM25 + dense vector search in one query.
• Modular Vectorizers — 60+ plug-in vectorizers + generative AI modules.
• Multi-Tenancy — Per-tenant isolated vector stores in one cluster.
• Query Agent (AI) — Agentic natural-language query generator.
• RBAC — Role-based access control for collections + tenants.
• Replication — Multi-node async + sync replication.
• Self-Host (OSS) — BSD-3 licensed. Docker + k8s Helm.
• Structured Filters — Metadata filters pre + post vector search.

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.