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Arize Phoenix vs Langfuse: catalog facts
Arize Phoenix	Langfuse
Freemium Phoenix is free to self-host; Arize AX is a separate managed paid platform.	Freemium Open source for self-hosting, with a hosted version that can be started for free.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Tracing, evals, prompts and experiments in one tool Runs locally, in Docker or on Kubernetes	Tracing, prompt management and evaluation in one tool Can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service
Source-available license rather than an OSI-approved one Some advanced features are in the separate paid Arize AX product	Requires instrumenting your application with its SDK Self-hosting means running and maintaining the server yourself
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Closed source	Open source
License: Elastic-2.0	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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