Langfuse vs Lowdefy

Both are self-hosted software development - ide & tools projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Langfuse scores 97 against Lowdefy's 77, putting it clearly ahead on the strength of a stronger recent trend and a larger community. That measures project health, not feature fit — Lowdefy may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
LangfuseLowdefy
Health score 97/100 77/100
Commits (11 mo) 3822 2450
Commits (last 3 mo) 1807 583
Stars 35k 3k
Latest release 25 Sept 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence MIT Apache-2.0
Built with Docker Nodejs, Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Langfuse

LLM engineering platform for model tracing, prompt management, and application evaluation. Langfuse helps teams collaboratively debug, analyze, and iterate on their LLM applications such as chatbots or AI agents.

97/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 95% of tracked projects; popularity more than 93%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 306 commits 2025-11: 313 commits 2025-12: 247 commits 2026-01: 179 commits 2026-02: 222 commits 2026-03: 256 commits 2026-04: 241 commits 2026-05: 251 commits 2026-06: 488 commits 2026-07: 676 commits 2026-08: 643 commits

Lowdefy

Build internal tools, BI dashboards, admin panels, CRUD apps and workflows in minutes using YAML / JSON.

77/100
Healthy

Actively maintained with regular releases.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 11/20
Momentum 4/15

Commit activity more than 92% of tracked projects; popularity more than 57%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 22 commits 2025-11: 8 commits 2025-12: 1 commits 2026-01: 188 commits 2026-02: 325 commits 2026-03: 785 commits 2026-04: 363 commits 2026-05: 175 commits 2026-06: 44 commits 2026-07: 332 commits 2026-08: 207 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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