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Arize AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

AI observability and evaluation platform to trace, evaluate and improve LLM agents in production, with an open-source Phoenix core.

248K 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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DeepSeek
✓ verifiedFreemium

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek offering free chat apps and low-cost API access to its frontier V-series and R-series reasoning models.

430M visits/mo
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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.

266K visits/mo
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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
Pricing
AX Free: $0/mo (25k spans/mo)
AX Pro: $50/mo (50k spans/mo)
Basic: Free
Pro: $139/month billed monthly, $99/month billed yearly
Enterprise: Contact sales

Free trial available

No public pricing

No public pricing

Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

Core features
  • Agent and LLM tracing
  • Large-scale evaluations
  • Open-source Phoenix observability
  • Alyx AI engineering agent
  • OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation
  • Experiments and prompt playgrounds
  • 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
  • Free DeepSeek chat (web and app)
  • Open API platform
  • V-series and R-series reasoning models
  • DeepSeek-V4 with long context and stronger agent ability
  • OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API
  • Extensive published model lineup
  • AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
  • Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
  • Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
  • Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
  • MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
  • 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
Use cases
  • Debugging AI agents in production
  • Measuring LLM output quality
  • Catching regressions before deploy
  • Blocking bots and spam signups
  • Preventing account takeover
  • Reducing transaction and payment fraud
  • Stopping credential stuffing
  • Free AI chat and assistance
  • Building apps via API
  • Reasoning and coding tasks
  • Low-cost LLM inference
  • Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
  • Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
  • Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
  • Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
  • Build agents with access to real-world tools.
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
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