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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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Claude
✓ verifiedFreemium

Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, coding, and analysis across web, mobile, and desktop, plus a developer API.

22M visits/mo231K saves
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Maxim AI
✓ verifiedFreemium

End-to-end evaluation and observability platform for building, testing, and monitoring AI agents and LLM apps.

102K visits/mo
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honeyhive.ai
✓ verifiedFreemium

Observability and evaluation platform for production LLM agents, built on OpenTelemetry for tracing, monitoring and testing.

24K 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
Pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)

Free trial available

Free: $0
Pro: $17/month billed annually ($200 up front), or $20/month
Max: From $100/month
Team: $20/seat/month billed annually ($25 monthly); premium seats $100/seat/month annually ($125 monthly)
Enterprise: Contact sales
Developer: $0 (3 seats, 10k logs/mo)
Professional: $29/seat/mo (100k logs/mo)
Business: $49/seat/mo (500k logs/mo)

Free trial available

Developer: $0 (10K events/month, up to 5 users, 30-day retention)

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
  • Conversational writing and editing
  • Code generation and debugging (Claude Code)
  • Data analysis and visualization
  • Web search plus memory across chats
  • Connectors and remote MCP integrations
  • Extended thinking for complex tasks
  • Prompt IDE, versioning, and deployment
  • Agent simulation and evaluation
  • Production tracing and observability
  • Pre-built and custom evaluators
  • Human-in-the-loop evaluation
  • Bifrost LLM gateway
  • OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing across 100+ LLMs and frameworks
  • Online evaluation via LLM-as-a-judge or code
  • Offline experiments and regression detection
  • Annotation queues for expert review
  • Alerts and drift detection
  • Prompt management, CLI and docs MCP server
  • 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
Use cases
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
  • Drafting and refining written content
  • Building and debugging software
  • Analyzing datasets for insights
  • Research and learning support
  • Team and enterprise automation
  • Testing and comparing prompts and models
  • Evaluating and simulating AI agents
  • Monitoring agents in production
  • Running human evaluation pipelines
  • Debugging multi-agent systems
  • Monitoring live agent quality at scale
  • Catching regressions before release
  • Human review of edge cases
  • Aligning automated evaluators with domain experts
  • 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.
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