Strongest fit
Who it is built for
- Developers operating production LLM applications
- Teams using multiple model providers
- Organizations monitoring LLM cost and reliability
Helicone
AI gateway and observability platform for reliable LLM applications
Helicone provides an AI gateway and observability platform for teams building LLM applications. Developers can route requests across providers, track usage and costs, debug sessions, manage prompts and datasets, and configure reliability features such as caching, rate limits, and automatic fallbacks.
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- Best for
- Developers operating production LLM applications
- Pricing signal
- Free
- Primary category
- Developer tools
- Last verified
- Jul 30, 2026
The decision
Should Helicone make your shortlist?
Start with the job, the team, and the constraints. Product fit becomes much clearer when those three line up.
Practical use cases
Jobs it can take on
- Route LLM requests across supported providers and models
- Track request-level cost, usage, errors, and latency
- Debug multi-step agent and conversation sessions
Before you choose
Know the tradeoffs
- The free Hobby plan is limited to 10,000 requests, 1 GB of storage, one seat, and seven days of retention.
- Paid plans include usage-based charges in addition to the listed subscription fee.
Inside the product
What you can actually do with it.
The core product capabilities, grouped around the work they enable.
AI Gateway
The gateway provides a unified API for more than 100 models with automatic fallbacks, load balancing, caching, and rate limits.
LLM observability
Helicone logs and analyzes requests, sessions, users, costs, errors, and performance metrics for AI applications.
Prompt and testing tools
Teams can manage prompts, datasets, scores, and playground testing within the platform.
Typical workflow
Developers configure provider keys or billing credits, then send requests through Helicone's gateway or integrate its observability tools. Helicone records the resulting requests and exposes dashboards, alerts, reports, and debugging tools for ongoing optimization.
Plans and official links
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Starting pointFree
Free planFree trial
See plans- Provider
- Helicone, Inc.
- Based in
- US
- Founded
- 2023
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