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Helicone

Checked 6h agoLink OKFree plan available
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Best for Logs every LLM call with latency, cost, and prompt analytics. free tier is generous.

When not Observability only. no experiment comparison or run management.

An open-source LLM observability and caching platform that adds monitoring, cost tracking, and caching to any LLM application with a single line of code change. Helicone works as a proxy: developers route API calls through Helicone's endpoint instead of directly to OpenAI, Anthropic, or another provider, and every request is automatically logged, analyzed, and cached. The dashboard shows real-time cost per user, token usage trends, latency percentiles, error rates, and prompt performance over time. A caching layer stores identical or semantically similar requests and returns cached responses instantly, reducing API costs for applications that receive repeated queries. User and session tracking links usage to individual end users for billing and debugging. Open-source and self-hostable; the cloud version has a free tier and paid plans from $20/month. Popular with AI startup founders and developers who want immediate visibility into LLM costs and performance.

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  • Log training runs, compare model performance, and manage datasets and checkpoints across the ML lifecycle.

  • Serve, monitor, and scale AI models and containerized applications in production.

    Best for Proxies LLM API calls with logging and caching to reduce cost and monitor deployments.

    When not Does not manage infrastructure. only wraps existing API calls.

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