How does Langfuse make money?

Langfuse is a commercial open source company. We monetize by offering Langfuse Cloud as a fully managed service.

Langfuse OSS can be freely self-hosted without scalability or performance limitations compared to Langfuse Cloud and we do not sell commercial support for it.

How we think about pricing

• Langfuse prices should always be a no-brainer for customers to understand and agree with.
• We do not price based on number of seats as the problems we solve are inherently collaborative. pricing based on usage is more aligned with the value of Langfuse.
• All our products should be free to use for small scale or side projects; we do this through self-hosting and the Cloud Hobby plan.
• As Langfuse grows, we benefit from economies of scale on Langfuse Cloud; we are working hard to lower (instead of raising) prices wherever possible.
• We only want to monetize customers who get real value from Langfuse; if a customer is unhappy and not using us we are easy going about refunds.

Value proposition of Langfuse Cloud

• Cost-effective compared to self-hosting due to shared infrastructure and overhead
• Infrastructure and pricing that scales with your usage without needing to maintain or upgrade infrastructure
• Includes support by the core team
• Always up-to-date with the latest features and bug fixes