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Replace LangSmith / Helicone Cloud with Self-Hosted Langfuse

Open-source LLM engineering platform: traces, evals, prompt management, and token cost analytics Stop paying Plus ($39/seat/mo + $0.50 per 1k LLM traces) ($429/mo for a 10-person team) and run Langfuse on a $4.50/mo Linux VPS with full data sovereignty.

10-Seat Annual Savings

+$5,094 / yr

vs LangSmith / Helicone Cloud standard plan

Container RAM & vCPU

1024 MB RAM

1.0 vCPU • Migration: Instant (1-line OpenAI/LangChain wrapper)

Recommended Cloud Box

$4.50/mo VPS

Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU)

1-to-100 Seat Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Table

Comparing LangSmith / Helicone Cloud (Plus ($39/seat/mo + $0.50 per 1k LLM traces)) vs Langfuse on Hetzner CX22 (4GB RAM / 2 vCPU).

Team Size	LangSmith / Helicone Cloud Cost	Langfuse VPS	Net Annual Savings
1 Seat (Solo)	$78.00/mo ($936/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$882 / year
5 Seats	$234.00/mo ($2,808/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$2,754 / year
10 Seats	$429.00/mo ($5,148/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$5,094 / year
25 Seats	$1,014.00/mo ($12,168/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$12,114 / year
50 Seats	$1,989.00/mo ($23,868/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$23,814 / year
100 Seats	$3,939.00/mo ($47,268/yr)	$4.50/mo (CX22)	+$47,214 / year

Production Docker Compose + Caddy Auto-SSL

Copy and run docker compose up -d on any Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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# Production Docker Compose: Langfuse (Replaces LangSmith / Helicone Cloud)
services:
  caddy:
    image: caddy:2-alpine
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"
    volumes:
      - ./Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile:ro
      - caddy_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  langfuse:
    image: langfuse/langfuse:2
    container_name: stack-langfuse
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-strongpassword}@postgres:5432/langfuse"
      - "NEXTAUTH_URL=https://llm.${DOMAIN:-yourdomain.com}"
      - "NEXTAUTH_SECRET=${LANGFUSE_SECRET:-random_secret_32_chars}"
      - "SALT=${LANGFUSE_SALT:-random_salt_32_chars}"
    volumes:
      - langfuse_data:/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

  postgres:
    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg16
    container_name: stack-postgres
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      - "POSTGRES_USER=postgres"
      - "POSTGRES_PASSWORD=${POSTGRES_PASSWORD:-strongpassword}"
    volumes:
      - postgres_data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    networks:
      - stack_net

networks:
  stack_net:
    driver: bridge

volumes:
  caddy_data:
  langfuse_data:
  postgres_data:

Caddyfile (Automatic HTTPS Reverse Proxy):

# Automatic Let's Encrypt HTTPS for Langfuse
langfuse.{$DOMAIN:yourdomain.com} {
  encode zstd gzip
  reverse_proxy langfuse:3000
}

Why Teams Switch to Langfuse

✓Track exact USD cost per user, model & prompt version
✓Version-control prompts outside your codebase
✓100% sovereign prompt/completion logs

GitHub Repository langfuse/langfuse

Official Website langfuse.com

Docker Image langfuse/langfuse:2

Database Needed PostgreSQL 16

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