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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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Openlit
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source, OpenTelemetry-native platform for LLM observability, tracing, evaluation and prompt management.
9.1K visits/mo
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LLM Price Check
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Free comparison tool for LLM API prices across providers, with a calculator to estimate token costs.
17K 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
Pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
Self-Hosted: $0 (Apache 2.0, no usage limits)
No public pricing
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
- ✦OpenTelemetry-native distributed tracing
- ✦Token usage and cost tracking
- ✦LLM evaluations (online/offline)
- ✦Prompt management and versioning
- ✦GPU and vector-DB monitoring
- ✦60+ LLM/framework integrations
- ✦Self-hostable via Docker; export to Grafana/Datadog
- ✦Compare LLM API prices across providers
- ✦Per-million-token input/output rates
- ✦Quality and context-window data
- ✦Token cost calculator
- ✦Sortable, searchable model table
- ✦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
Use cases
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Trace and debug LLM applications
- →Monitor AI cost and performance
- →Evaluate prompts and models
- →Add observability without code changes
- →Compare LLM API costs
- →Estimate token spending for a project
- →Pick a cost-effective model
- →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
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