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Langfuse vs Weights & Biases
Langfuse or Weights & Biases? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Command line, Self-hosted, API, Official SDKs, Traces and evaluates
- Only Langfuse states: Choice of models
- Only Weights & Biases states: Runs models for you, Builds agents and workflows
Langfuse
Langfuse traces, evaluates, and monitors AI agents and LLM applications, with prompt management, experiments, and cost analytics.
Plans
Hobby
Free
- 50k units / month included
- 30 days data access
- 2 users
- Community support via GitHub
- All platform features (with limits)
Core
- $29 / month
- $8/100k units
- 100k units / month included
- 90 days data access
- Unlimited users
- In-app support
- Everything in Hobby
Pro
- $199 / month
- $8/100k units
- 100k units / month included
- 3 years data access
- Data retention management
- Unlimited annotation queues
- High rate limits
- Prioritized in-app support
Enterprise
- $2499 / month
- $8/100k units
- 100k units / month included
- Audit Logs
- SCIM API
- Custom rate limits
- Uptime SLA
- Named lead support engineer
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “Langfuse CLI Full API access from the terminal for agent workflows, scripts, and CI/CD.” source
- Choice of models — “Test prompts on real production inputs and compare models side-by-side.” source
- Self-hosted — “Self-host at scale” source
- API — “REST APIs for everything” source
- Official SDKs — “Best-in-class SDKs: Native SDKs for Python and JavaScript” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Trace, evaluate, and improve AI agents with one open platform.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “The production service is based on the same open-source Langfuse codebase, is covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits, and undergoes annual third-party penetration tests.” source
- SOC 2 — “We take active steps to demonstrate our commitment to data security and privacy such as annual SOC2 Type 2 and ISO27001 audits as well as External Penetration Tests.” source
- ISO 27001 — “The production service is based on the same open-source Langfuse codebase, is covered by SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits, and undergoes annual third-party penetration tests.” source
- GDPR — “Langfuse is GDPR compliant, and offers data retention, data masking and data deletion capabilities to manage the processing of personal data .” source
- HIPAA — “We offer a DPA , provide a HIPAA-ready region , and adhere to our Privacy Policy .” source
- Data kept in the EU — “Langfuse Cloud – fully-managed SaaS (multi-tenant) with US, EU, Japan, and HIPAA data regions” source
Latest updates
- Langfuse v4 is live: faster at scale, with more ways to search, monitor, and evaluate
Initial table loads drop from seconds to milliseconds, and dashboards over longer time ranges load at least 10x faster.
Weights & Biases
AI developer platform for tracking experiments, managing models and datasets, and evaluating and monitoring AI applications.
Plans
Free
Free
- AI application evaluations
- AI application tracing
- AI application scorers
- AI model experiment tracking
- AI assets registry & lineage tracking
- Community Support
Pro
- Starts at $60/month, billed monthly
- Unlimited teams for collaboration
- Team-based access controls
- Service Accounts
- Priority email & chat support
- CI/CD automations
- Slack and email alerts
Enterprise
Price on request
- Single tenant option with choice of region
- HIPAA compliant option
- Secure private connectivity
- Customer-managed encryption key
- Single Sign On
- Automated user provisioning
Personal
Free
- 1 user seat
- Experiment tracking
- Registry & lineage tracking
- Run a W&B server locally on any machine with Docker and Python installed
- For personal projects only. Corporate use is not allowed.
Advanced Enterprise
Price on request
- Flexible deployment options
- HIPAA compliant option
- Secure private connectivity
- Customer-managed encryption key
- Single Sign On
- Automated user provisioning
Free forever for academic research
Free
- All the product features included on Pro
- Unlimited tracked hours
- 200GB of cloud storage
- Up to 25GB/mo of Weave data ingestion
- Up to 100 seats
- Additional cloud storage can be purchased for $0.03 per GB, billed monthly
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “You can then use the command line to start the server.” source
- Self-hosted — “Self-hosting allows you to run Weights & Biases on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your data and privacy.” source
- API — “Each inference API has different costs for input and output tokens.” source
- Official SDKs — “Core | Reports | Automations | SDK” source
- Runs models for you — “Inference Access and explore hosted AI models” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “W&B Weave: Build agentic AI applications” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Monitor and analyze the performance of your GenAI models during development and in production, capturing inputs, outputs, and metadata for each inference.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- SOC 2 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- ISO 27001 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- HIPAA — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source