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Helicone
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LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.
100K visits/mo
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ApX Machine Learning
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Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.
355K visits/mo
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Higress
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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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Latitude
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Open-source AI-agent observability platform for tracing sessions, clustering failures and running evals on live traffic.
57K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
No public pricing
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
- ✦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
- ✦VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
- ✦LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
- ✦Model directory and comparison
- ✦AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
- ✦Calculator API and exportable cost reports
- ✦Engineering blog and guides
- ✦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
- ✦Agent trace capture and conversation intelligence
- ✦Semantic and exact-text search across all traces
- ✦Automatic issue discovery with Slack/email/webhook alerts
- ✦OpenTelemetry-compatible SDK with no lock-in
- ✦Automated evals and golden dataset generation
- ✦Failure-mode clustering and MCP server integration
Use cases
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
- →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
- →Monitoring AI agents in production
- →Debugging and triaging agent failures
- →Building regression evals from real traffic
- →Getting alerted on new or escalating issues
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