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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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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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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K visits/mo
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Latitude
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI-agent observability platform for tracing sessions, clustering failures and running evals on live traffic.
57K 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 (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
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
- ✦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
- ✦100+ automated AI tests
- ✦Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
- ✦Real-time observability and tracing
- ✦Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
- ✦Data-quality and drift monitoring
- ✦Compliance/governance alignment
- ✦Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
- ✦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
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →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.
- →Evaluate models before production
- →Monitor live AI systems for issues
- →Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
- →Catch data drift and quality problems
- →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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