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Langfuse

Open-source LLM observability platform. Monitor and debug AI applications.

AI InfrastructureFounded January 2023#5 of 54 in AI Infrastructure

Updated May 29, 2026

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Company profile

What is Langfuse?

Langfuse provides observability for LLM applications. Track prompts, responses, and costs. Open-source alternative to proprietary tools.

Company research

As of May 5, 2026
  1. Hacker News mentions decreased 63.2% over the last 30 days. Hacker News is discussion volume, not adoption.

Source check
Standard. Use as a directional reading from retained source data.
Sources
Public metric data from 5 providers.

History

Research history

2 research updates

Ai Infrastructure

Langfuse: Hacker News mentions decreased 63.2% over the last 30 days

Latest
Ai Infrastructure

Langfuse: Hacker News mentions decreased 66.7% over the last 30 days

1 metric

Latest company data

Primary data point

Downloads

26.9M/30d

npm
5.4M
PyPI
21.4M

Tracked packages: npm langfuse; PyPI langfuse

▲ +8%npm + PyPI: Updated 1d ago

Other data points

Dependent projects

583

npm
128
PyPI
455

Projects depending on tracked packages: npm langfuse; PyPI langfuse

npm + PyPI: Updated 9h ago

GitHub stars

28.2K

Main repository stars

Updated 9h ago

Hacker News

12/30d

Position #18 in category discussion

Updated 9h ago

Repository health

Maintenance data from the main open-source repository.

Key-person risk
4
External contributors
7
% of recent contributors outside the core team
Releases (30d)
0

Repository usage

Public repositories and source files importing packages tied to Langfuse.

Repos importing
40%

About Langfuse

Langfuse provides observability for LLM applications. Track prompts, responses, and costs. Open-source alternative to proprietary tools.

FoundersMax-Julian Scholtz, Lukas Müller

Funding

$5M · 3 rounds

Raised $5M total. Category position #5 of 54 in AI Infrastructure.

Seed2024

Burda Principal Investments

$40K
Seed2024

Lightspeed Venture Partners

$4M
Seed2023

Y Combinator

$500K

Investors

Burda Principal InvestmentsLightspeed Venture PartnersY Combinator

Tracked packages (2)

1 npm, 1 PyPI

langfuse

npmMain npm package

langfuse

Open-source LLM observability platform. Monitor and debug AI applications.

langfuse

PyPIMain PyPI package

langfuse

Open-source LLM observability platform. Monitor and debug AI applications.