About
What is Helicone?
Helicone is an open-source LLM observability platform designed for AI engineers, offering comprehensive tools to monitor, evaluate, and experiment with large language models. It features an AI Gateway that provides unified API access to over 100 AI models, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini, with intelligent routing and automatic fallbacks. Integration is quick and easy, requiring just one line of code to log requests from various LLM platforms and frameworks like LangChain and LlamaIndex. Users can observe and debug traces and sessions for agents and chatbots, analyze metrics such as cost, latency, and quality, and export data to PostHog for custom dashboards. The platform also includes a playground for rapid prompt iteration, prompt management with versioning, and fine-tuning capabilities through partners like OpenPipe. Helicone is enterprise-ready, SOC 2 and GDPR compliant, and offers a generous monthly free tier.
Best used for
Ideal for AI engineers who need to monitor LLM performance, debug AI applications, and optimize costs and latency. Especially valuable for those building agents, chatbots, or document processing pipelines and requiring unified API access to multiple LLM providers.
Common actions
low-code/no-codeopen-sourcecollaborationautomated workflowdeepfakeworkflows"AI Agents"github copilotface swapping
Capabilities
Key features
- LLM observability platform
- AI Gateway
- One-line integration
- Agent tracing
- Cost & latency tracking
- Prompt management
- Fine-tuning
Integrations
openaianthropiclangchaingeminivercel-ai-sdkollamaaws-bedrockanyscale+ 18 more
Pricing & Plans
Freemium · Open Source · Enterprise
FAQs
What is the Helicone AI Gateway?
The Helicone AI Gateway provides a unified API key to access over 100 AI models from various providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini. It includes intelligent routing and automatic fallbacks, simplifying integration and management of multiple LLM services.
Does Helicone offer a free tier?
Yes, Helicone provides a generous monthly free tier that includes up to 10,000 requests per month. No credit card is required to sign up and start using the free tier for monitoring and experimenting with LLMs.
Can I self-host Helicone?
Yes, Helicone is open-source and can be easily self-hosted using Docker or Helm charts. Docker Compose is recommended for local setup, while Helm is available for enterprise workloads, providing flexibility for deployment.
What kind of metrics can I track with Helicone?
Helicone allows you to track key metrics such as cost, latency, and quality of your LLM interactions. These metrics help in analyzing performance and can be exported to tools like PostHog for creating custom dashboards and deeper insights.
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