What is the best free alternative to Langfuse?

Arize Phoenix is the closest free alternative to Langfuse: same LLM Eval & Observability sub-category, and it is free. Fully open-source, self-hostable with zero setup via `uvx` (pip/conda also supported)

Are there free Langfuse alternatives?

Yes — 9 of the 9 alternatives listed here are free or freemium: Arize Phoenix, Braintrust, Promptfoo, W&B Weave, Ollama. None of them are paid-only.

Langfuse is free tier + paid. There is a free tier you can work in, with paid plans above it.

How were these Langfuse alternatives chosen?

They are the other tools in LLM Eval & Observability, then the rest of AI Models & Local Execution, ordered free tiers first and capped at 9. There is no sponsorship and no paid placement in that ordering — only the pricing tier decides.

9 Langfuse alternatives (9 free)

Looking for a free alternative to Langfuse? Here are 9 llm eval & observability worth trying — 9 with a free tier. Langfuse itself is free tier + paid.

Tool	Langfuse (you searched)	Arize Phoenix	Braintrust	Promptfoo
Pricing	freemium	free	freemium	freemium
Best for	Fully open-source and self-hostable for free via Docker Compose/Kubernetes, not just a hosted SaaS	Fully open-source, self-hostable with zero setup via `uvx` (pip/conda also supported)	Free Starter plan ships model credits and scored evals with no card required	Open-source CLI/library for evaluating prompts, models and RAG pipelines side by side, runs in CI
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Arize Phoenix

LLM Eval & Observability

free

✦ WhyA Langfuse alternative — Fully open-source, self-hostable with zero setup via `uvx` (pip/conda also supported).

Fully open-source, self-hostable with zero setup via `uvx` (pip/conda also supported)
Combines tracing, evals, datasets, experiments and prompt playground in one local-first tool
AI engineering agent (PXI) built in for automated troubleshooting of traces

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Braintrust

LLM Eval & Observability

freemium

✦ WhyA Langfuse alternative — Free Starter plan ships model credits and scored evals with no card required.

Free Starter plan ships model credits and scored evals with no card required
Unlimited users/projects/datasets/playgrounds even on the free tier
Built-in playground for side-by-side prompt/model comparison against production traces

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Promptfoo

LLM Eval & Observability

freemium

✦ WhyA Langfuse alternative — Open-source CLI/library for evaluating prompts, models and RAG pipelines side by side, runs in CI.

Open-source CLI/library for evaluating prompts, models and RAG pipelines side by side, runs in CI
Automated red-teaming to surface prompt injection, jailbreak and data-leak vulnerabilities
300,000+ user community with an enterprise tier for teams needing hosted guardrails

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W&B Weave

LLM Eval & Observability

freemium

✦ WhyA Langfuse alternative — Agent-native tracing model with sessions, steps, tools and sub-agents as first-class concepts (not generic spans).

Agent-native tracing model with sessions, steps, tools and sub-agents as first-class concepts (not generic spans)
Pre-built safety/quality scorers for toxicity, bias, PII and hallucination detection out of the box
Built on Weights & Biases' existing ML-experiment infrastructure, useful for teams already on W&B

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