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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium
LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.
100K visits/mo
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Higress
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-native API gateway for routing, protecting and caching LLM/agent traffic, with a paid managed cloud.
29K visits/mo
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hCaptcha
✓ verifiedFreemium
Privacy-focused CAPTCHA and bot/fraud-detection service, a drop-in reCAPTCHA alternative for websites and apps.
4.4M visits/mo
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Coze
✓ verifiedFreemium
ByteDance's Coze (Kouzi): an all-in-one AI office assistant for writing, slides, sheets, design, podcasts and images.
7.2M visits/mo
Pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Basic: Free
Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly
Enterprise: Contact sales
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Request logging and LLM observability
- ✦AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
- ✦Caching and rate limiting
- ✦Session, user and custom-property analytics
- ✦Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
- ✦Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
- ✦Unified proxy and protocol conversion across 100+ LLMs
- ✦Model-level fallback and routing
- ✦Semantic and exact-match AI caching
- ✦Token tracking and quota controls
- ✦Content-safety and data-protection filtering
- ✦MCP service hosting and plugin marketplace
- ✦AI bot detection
- ✦Transaction fraud protection
- ✦Account-takeover (ATO) defense
- ✦Pull-based SMS MFA
- ✦Private Learning ML risk models
- ✦Two-line reCAPTCHA migration
- ✦Hundreds of integrations
- ✦AI writing
- ✦AI presentation/PPT generation
- ✦AI spreadsheets and tables
- ✦AI design
- ✦AI podcast generation
- ✦AI image generation
Use cases
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Centralizing access to multiple LLM providers
- →Building and governing AI agent/MCP services
- →Controlling token spend across teams
- →Adding caching and safety to LLM calls
- →Blocking bots and spam signups
- →Preventing account takeover
- →Reducing transaction and payment fraud
- →Stopping credential stuffing
- →Drafting documents
- →Building presentations
- →Generating spreadsheets
- →Creating designs and images
- →Producing podcasts
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