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An open-source alternative to LangSmith

Langfuse is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for LangSmith. It is observability software with 36.8K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

Langfuse

Observability

Trace, evaluate and improve the LLM features in your apps.

Langfuse gives teams building with large language models the same visibility that error tracking gives web developers. Every model call can be traced, evaluated and compared, so improving an AI feature becomes measurable instead of guesswork.

  • Trace LLM calls, retrieval, embeddings and agent actions across your app.
  • Version and manage prompts centrally, and test them in a playground.
  • Evaluate quality with LLM-as-a-judge, code evaluators, user feedback and datasets.

What people use it for

See what an AI feature is doing in production

Instrument the app with an SDK and follow each request through model calls, retrieval and tool use to find slow or wrong answers.

Change prompts without redeploying

Keep prompts in Langfuse, version them, and roll out an improved version after testing it in the playground.

Check quality before a release

Run a dataset of test cases through a new prompt or model and score the results with LLM-as-a-judge or code evaluators.

36.8K starsMITTypeScriptLatest release 2 days agoWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for Langfuse.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 29, 2026 (2 days ago)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in TypeScriptMain language on GitHub
  • Recommended in a stackIn AI automation agency, Data consultancy

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