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Helicone

Drop-in LLM proxy with logging, caching, and cost tracking.

Pricing
FREEMIUM
Source
Open core
Hosting
Hybrid
Platforms
APIWeb
Models
Model-agnostic
Verified
Jul 5, 2026

One-line integration — change your OpenAI/Anthropic base URL and get a dashboard with every prompt, response, latency, and dollar tracked. Adds caching and rate-limit handling without code changes.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • LLM gateway / routing (primary capability)
  • LLM observability (primary capability)
  • Prompt management (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • No SDK or code changes to integrate
  • Open source, self-hostable
  • Built-in caching and rate-limit handling
  • Multi-provider gateway
  • Request/response focused, not span-based
  • Weaker multi-step agent tracing
  • Proxy adds a network hop
  • Lighter eval tooling than Langfuse

Tags

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  • View Langfuse details
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    Langfuse

    Langfuse

    Open-source LLM observability. Self-hostable, OpenTelemetry-native.

    Tracing, evals, prompt management, and dataset tooling for LLM apps — self-host on your own infra or use Langfuse Cloud. The open-source default when you want full ownership of your observability stack.

    Own your observability data
    Self-host infra cost at scale
    • open-source
    • tracing
    • evals
    • self-hosted
  • View LangSmith details
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    LangSmith

    LangChain

    LangChain's hosted observability + eval platform.

    Tracing, dataset management, eval orchestration, and prompt playground from the LangChain team. Pairs naturally if LangChain or LangGraph already runs in your stack, but works standalone via SDKs.

    Native LangChain/LangGraph tracing
    Closed source, cloud-only
    • tracing
    • evals
    • datasets
    • langchain
  • View Portkey details
    InferenceFREEMIUMOpen core

    Portkey

    Portkey

    AI gateway with observability, guardrails, and governance.

    A production AI gateway that gives apps and agents unified access to 1,600+ LLMs across providers behind a single API, with built-in observability, prompt management, guardrails, and governance. Portkey adds routing, caching, fallbacks, cost limits, PII redaction, RBAC, and an MCP gateway. Its core gateway is open-source; run it self-hosted/hybrid or use the managed cloud, which offers a free tier.

    One API across many providers
    Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (closed 2025)
    • ai-gateway
    • llm-routing
    • observability
    • guardrails
  • View Lunary details
    ObservabilityFREEMIUMOpen core

    Lunary

    Lunary

    Open-source observability and prompt management for LLM apps.

    An open-source platform for monitoring, debugging, and improving LLM applications and chatbots. Lunary combines request tracing, cost and user analytics, versioned prompt management with A/B testing, plus human-in-the-loop review and automated scoring. Self-host the Apache-2.0 community edition or use the managed cloud, which starts free with a 10k-events monthly tier.

    Apache-2.0, self-hostable
    Evaluation features minimal/early-stage
    • llm-observability
    • prompt-management
    • tracing
    • open-source