Alright, I've been spelunking through the Langfuse docs and pricing page, and I see they charge per "generation." They also keep talking about "observations." As someone who has been burned by nebulous cloud pricing before, I need to understand what I'm actually going to be billed for.
Can someone break down the *practical, cost-related* difference between a 'generation' and an 'observation'?
From what I gather:
* An **observation** seems to be the basic unit of anything you log—a trace, a span, an event. It's the generic container.
* A **generation** is a specific type of observation for LLM calls.
My immediate questions are:
* Does every single call to an LLM provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) count as one generation, regardless of token count or cost?
* What about simple tool calls or non-LLM spans logged as observations—are those free in the pricing model, or do they just fall under a different limit?
* If I have a trace with 5 LLM calls and 10 other events/spans, is that 5 generations and 15 total observations?
I'm trying to map this to real usage. If my app makes 50,000 LLM calls in a month, that's 50,000 generations, putting me in the $199/month tier. But are the other 200,000 non-LLM observations I might log going to trigger an overage or are they just... included?
A concrete example would help before I even consider a trial.
Show me the bill