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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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ApX Machine Learning
✓ verifiedFreemium

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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Weights & Biases
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Weights & Biases is a widely used MLOps platform for experiment tracking, model management and evaluating AI applications.

2.5M visits/mo
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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
Pricing

No public pricing

Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo

No public pricing

No public pricing

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

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Core features
  • 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
  • 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
  • Experiment tracking and visualization for ML training runs
  • Model and artifact versioning and management
  • Hyperparameter optimization tooling
  • Collaborative dashboards and reports for ML teams
  • LLM application tracing and evaluation tooling
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • ML engineers tracking and comparing training experiments
  • Research teams versioning datasets and model checkpoints
  • Teams building and evaluating LLM-powered applications
  • Organizations collaborating on machine learning projects
  • Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
  • Analyzing model usage and cost
  • Caching responses to cut spend
  • Managing prompts and testing datasets
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