Winter 2023

Langfuse

Open source LLM engineering platform

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What they do

open-source tracing, evals and prompt tools for LLM apps

How close to us

3, close

checks only; observability for AI apps sold to developers, W2-adjacent but not about business output or cost; acquired

Wedges

  • W2 Seeing whether your AI agents actually produce adjacent
L1 Company brain (knows the organisation) 0, none
L2 Agent team (runs agents, tools, approvals) 0, none
L3 Does and learns (finishes, checks, measures, updates the brain) 1, light

Who buys

Firm size
mid-market
Buyer type
developer
Role
AI engineer or head of engineering
UK
not known
Their own description (from YC)

Traces, evals, prompt management and metrics to debug and improve your LLM application.
Onboard via https://langfuse.com

Langfuse helps you build and improve LLM applications across the entire lifecycle:
- Develop: Observability, Langfuse UI & Prompt Management
- Monitor: Traces, Analytics, Metrics & Evaluations
- Test: Experiments, Releases & Datasets

We are hiring: https://langfuse.com/careers

Langfuse joined Clickhouse in Jan 2026 where the founders now continue to build the team.

Full teardown

No full teardown yet. On the deep list.

Technical detail
Slug
langfuse
Lens hash
179096c479
Pass
screen
Stale
no