Helicone

What it does

Helicone is an open-source AI gateway and LLM observability platform that AI companies use to route, debug, and analyze their applications. It provides request monitoring dashboards, sessions, user analytics, custom properties, and HQL (a query language), plus prompt management, a playground, datasets, scores, and webhooks for testing and improvement. Gateway features include caching, rate limits, and automatic fallbacks. Helicone integrates with providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, LiteLLM, Anyscale, Together AI, and OpenRouter, and offers HIPAA and SOC-2 Type II compliance on higher tiers.

How to use: Integrate Helicone with a single line of code to access cost tracking, agent tracing, prompt management, and more. Use the dashboard to monitor requests, segments, sessions, properties, and users. Improve prompts using the playground, experiments, and evaluators.

Core features

• ✦AI gateway with caching, rate limits, and automatic fallbacks
• ✦Request monitoring and dashboards
• ✦Sessions and agent tracing
• ✦Cost tracking and user analytics
• ✦Prompt management and playground
• ✦HQL query language
• ✦Datasets, scores, and webhooks
• ✦Alerts and reports
• ✦Open-source with one-line integration

Use cases

• →Monitor and debug LLM application performance
• →Track costs associated with LLM usage
• →Manage and optimize prompts
• →Improve AI agent performance through tracing
• →Run experiments to evaluate different prompt strategies
• →Detect critical bugs and save agent runtime