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Helicone

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Helicone AI is an open-source platform for developers to build reliable AI applications. It helps you monitor, debug, and analyze your AI requests in real-time, manage costs, and optimize performance. With one simple API, you can access over 100 AI models, making your AI development easier and more efficient.

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What is Helicone?

Who It's For

Helicone AI is for developers and companies building applications with AI, especially those using Large Language Models. It's perfect if you need to monitor, debug, and analyze your AI apps to ensure they run smoothly and efficiently.

What You Get

You get real-time monitoring of all your AI requests, detailed logs, and analytics to track costs and performance. It includes tools for managing prompts, experimenting, and quickly debugging issues. It also supports over 100 AI models through a single API.

How It Works

To integrate, you just change your API base URL to Helicone's AI Gateway and add your Helicone API key. This small change routes all your AI calls through Helicone, which then automatically logs, monitors, and optimizes them for you.

Features & Capabilities

🔗 AI Gateway & Routing

Unified Model Access

Provides a single API endpoint to access over 100 different AI models from various providers.

Intelligent Provider Routing

Automatically routes requests to the best-performing or most cost-effective AI provider.

Passthrough Billing

Offers direct billing from AI providers without additional markups, ensuring cost transparency.

📊 LLM Observability & Analytics

Request Debugging

Helps identify and resolve issues in AI application requests and responses with detailed logs.

Cost Tracking & Optimization

Monitors and analyzes AI model usage costs to help optimize spending and identify efficiencies.

User Metrics & Sessions

Tracks user interactions, sessions, and performance metrics within AI applications for insights.

Customizable Alerts & Reports

Notifies users of critical events and generates comprehensive performance reports for proactive management.

🧪 Prompt & Experiment Management

Centralized Prompt Management

Manages and version-controls AI prompts for consistent application behavior and easy iteration.

Evaluation Scoring

Provides tools to score and evaluate the quality of AI model responses for continuous improvement.

User Feedback Collection

Gathers and integrates user feedback to improve AI model performance and user satisfaction.

A/B Testing & Experiments

Supports running experiments to compare different prompt versions or models for optimal results.

🛠️ Developer & Integration Tools

Broad AI Provider Integration

Supports seamless integration with a wide range of LLM providers and popular frameworks like LangChain.

Custom Metadata Tagging

Allows users to add custom properties to requests for enhanced filtering and deeper analysis.

Helicone Query Language (HQL)

Provides a powerful query language for deep analysis of LLM logs and data within the platform.

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Real-World Use Cases

Streamlining Multi-Model AI Application Development

Developers building AI applications often need to integrate with multiple LLM providers, leading to complex API management and billing. Helicone's AI Gateway simplifies this by offering a single API endpoint for over 100 models, along with features like caching, retries, and failover, enabling faster development and more robust applications.

Industry: B2B SaaS • User Type: AI/ML Engineers

Optimizing LLM Application Performance and Costs

AI applications can incur significant costs and suffer from performance issues if not properly managed. Helicone offers comprehensive observability features, including real-time monitoring, cost tracking, and latency analysis, empowering developers to identify inefficiencies, debug issues quickly, and optimize their LLM expenditures and response times.

Industry: AI/ML Development • User Type: AI/ML Engineers

Enhancing Prompt Engineering and Iteration

Effective prompt engineering is crucial for high-quality AI application outputs, but managing prompt versions and evaluating their real-world performance can be cumbersome. Helicone provides tools for prompt versioning, A/B testing with production data, and collecting user feedback and evaluation scores, enabling rapid iteration and improvement of AI model interactions.

Industry: Technology • User Type: Prompt Engineers

Building Resilient and Debuggable AI Applications

Maintaining the reliability of AI applications in production is critical, and diagnosing issues quickly is paramount. Helicone provides robust debugging tools, detailed trace logging, and configurable alerts, alongside features like caching, retries, and failover routing, ensuring applications remain stable and problems can be resolved efficiently.

Industry: B2B SaaS • User Type: DevOps Engineers

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Specifications
Available via:
Cloud
API
Browser
Browser
Built for:
Individual
Startup
Business
Enterprise
Complexity:
Developer
Programming knowledge required
Pricing Plans

Hobby

Free plan with basic features

Free
  • 10,000 free requests
  • Requests and Dashboard
  • Free, truly.
  • 1 Seat
  • 1 Organization
  • 10,000 logs/mo
  • Usage-based Additional logs
  • 1 Session
  • 3 users (User analytics)
  • 1 Custom property
  • 1 Alert
  • 10 runs (Playground)
  • 3 prompts (Prompt management)
  • Collaborative workspace
  • 3 versions (Version history)
  • 1 Dataset
  • 1 Webhook
  • One-line integration
  • Unified OpenAI SDK (100+ providers)
  • Caching
  • Rate limits
  • Automatic fallbacks & routing
  • LLM security
  • 1 month Retention
  • 1,200 logs/min Ingestion
  • 60 calls/min API access
  • Community (GitHub, Discord) Support
  • US/EU Data region
  • Optional Data encryption
  • GDPR Compliance
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Pro

Best for growing teams

$20
/monthly
  • Includes all features from the Hobby plan
  • Scale beyond 10k requests
  • Core observability features
  • Standard support
  • Metrics dashboard
  • Unlimited Prompt management with $50/mo add-on
  • Included Version history
  • 3 months Data Retention
  • 6,000 logs/min Ingestion
  • Chat & email Support

Team

Custom solutions for enterprises

$200
/monthly
  • Includes all features from the Pro plan
  • Unlimited seats
  • Unlimited Prompt Management
  • SOC-2 & HIPAA compliance
  • Dedicated Slack channel
  • 5 Organizations
  • Volume discount Additional logs
  • 15,000 logs/min Ingestion
  • 1,000 calls/min API access
  • Private Slack channel Support

Enterprise

Custom solutions for enterprises

Custom
pricing
  • Includes all features from the Team plan
  • Custom MSA
  • SAML SSO
  • On-prem deployment
  • Bulk cloud discounts
  • Unlimited Organizations
  • Unlimited Logs
  • Forever Data Retention
  • 30,000 logs/min Ingestion
  • Dedicated support engineer
  • SLAs
  • RBAC
  • Omit logs
  • InfoSec reviews
  • Custom DPAs

✓ Free trial • ✓ Free plan • ✓ Plans from $20 / monthly • ✓ Enterprise options

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