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Langfuse vs MLflow: catalog facts
Langfuse	MLflow
Freemium Open source for self-hosting, with a hosted version that can be started for free.	Free Free and open source.
Web, Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted, Command line
Tracing, prompt management and evaluation in one tool Can be self-hosted or used as a hosted service	Tracing built on OpenTelemetry, independent of LLM provider 50+ built-in evaluation metrics and LLM judges
Requires instrumenting your application with its SDK Self-hosting means running and maintaining the server yourself	Broad feature set takes time to learn Running it for a team means hosting and maintaining a server yourself
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account 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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