# Langfuse vs vLLM

| Attribute | Langfuse | vLLM |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 64.2 (66% (medium)) | 67.6 (67% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | 5 |
| adoption.github_stars | 33,763 | 90,137 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 6,083,004 | 1,098,710 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A comprehensive observability and development platform that combines tracing, prompt management, evaluation, and experimentation, enabling teams to understand LLM behavior in production and ship improved applications with confidence | An open-source framework that provides optimized LLM inference with low latency and high throughput. It includes continuous batching, memory-efficient attention mechanisms, quantization support, and distributed serving across diverse hardware platforms. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"observability","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":false,"pricing_model":"free_open_source","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"architecture_model":"open_source_self_hosted","framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"token_cost_and_latency_waterfall_charts":true,"prompt_playground_and_in_dashboard_replay":true,"multi_step_agentic_workflow_distributed_tracing":true,"opentelemetry_openllmetry_native_export_support":true,"user_feedback_score_api_for_thumbs_up_down_tags":true,"native_integration_with_langchain_and_llamaindex":true}` | `{"role":"serving","open_source":true,"managed_cloud":false,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"gpu_acceleration":true,"kubernetes_native":true,"llm_observability":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"continuous_batching":true,"multi_model_serving":true,"multi_gpu_multi_node":true,"quantization_support":true,"openai_compatible_api":true,"multi_framework_support":true}` |
| integrations.count | 100 | 29 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Vercel AI SDK"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Pydantic AI"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"LiveKit"},{"name":"Haystack"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Amazon Bedrock"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Mistral AI"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"xAI"},{"name":"vLLM"},{"name":"Groq"},{"name":"OpenAI SDK"},{"name":"Cohere"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"OpenSearch"},{"name":"Hugging Face"}]` | `[{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"NVIDIA Dynamo"},{"name":"OpenAI-compatible API"},{"name":"Anthropic Messages API"},{"name":"FlashAttention"},{"name":"FlashInfer"},{"name":"CUTLASS"},{"name":"torch.compile"},{"name":"gRPC"},{"name":"GPTQ"},{"name":"AWQ"},{"name":"GGUF"},{"name":"ModelOpt"},{"name":"TorchAO"},{"name":"OpenAI API"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"PyTorch"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"FastAPI"},{"name":"Transformers"},{"name":"Outlines"},{"name":"Google Cloud TPU"},{"name":"Intel Gaudi"},{"name":"AMD Instinct"},{"name":"Apple Silicon"},{"name":"IBM Spyre"},{"name":"Huawei Ascend"},{"name":"Rebellions NPU"},{"name":"TRTLLM-GEN"},{"name":"CuTeDSL"}]` |
| language.primary | TypeScript | Python |
| license.spdx | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Hobby"},{"free":false,"name":"Core"},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise"}],"summary":"Multiple tiers available; specific pricing not shown in provided text","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://langfuse.com/changelog/2025-08-08-openai-pricing-availability","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T09:38:11.860Z"}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://docs.vllm.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:53:56.648Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 9 |
| release.history | 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| 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|
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | yes | - |
| security.hipaa | yes | - |
| security.iso27001 | yes | - |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=helm&package_name=langfuse-k8s%2Flangfuse&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | `{"count":62,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=vllm&per_page=100","last_12m":37,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | Langfuse | vLLM |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | LLM observability / eval | Model serving |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hostable / OSS core | ✓ | ✓ |
| Managed cloud available | ✓ | ✗ |
| On-prem / VPC deployment | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Observability** |  |  |
| LLM tracing / observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human) | ✓ | - |
| **Dev** |  |  |
| Prompt management + versioning | ✓ | - |
| **Tracking** |  |  |
| Experiment tracking / model registry | ✓ | - |
| **Serving** |  |  |
| Model serving / inference endpoint | ✗ | ✓ |
| **Interop** |  |  |
| OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible | ✓ | ✓ |
| Framework-agnostic | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Gateway** |  |  |
| Multi-provider model support | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data** |  |  |
| No-train-on-customer-data guarantee | - | - |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:24:11.203Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*