Product overview
What is Helicone?
Helicone is an AI gateway and LLM observability platform for teams building AI applications. It provides a central place to route model requests, inspect application activity, debug prompts, analyze behavior, and monitor production use. The homepage is aimed at developers who need to understand and operate applications that depend on multiple model providers.
The product interface shown on the official site includes requests, segments, sessions, users, prompts, datasets, a playground, monitoring, rate limits, and alerts. Its listed integrations cover major model providers and routing layers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, LiteLLM, Anyscale, Together AI, and OpenRouter.
Core Features
- AI gateway: Routes model traffic through a shared control layer for AI applications.
- Request observability: Organizes individual requests for inspection and debugging.
- Sessions and users: Groups activity into application sessions and user-level views.
- Prompt and dataset tools: Provides areas for managing prompts, datasets, and experiments in a playground.
- Monitoring and alerts: Tracks application behavior and supports operational notifications.
- Rate limits: Gives teams controls for managing model request throughput.
Use Cases
- Production debugging: Developers inspect model requests and sessions to investigate unexpected application behavior.
- Provider routing: Teams send AI traffic through one gateway while using different model providers.
- Usage analysis: Product and engineering teams segment requests and analyze activity by user or session.
- Prompt development: Builders organize prompts and datasets and test them in a playground.
- Operational monitoring: Teams watch deployed AI applications, configure alerts, and manage rate limits.
Pricing
The homepage offers a seven-day free trial and states that no credit card is required. It does not provide plan prices on the supplied page.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which model providers integrate with Helicone?
The homepage lists OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, LiteLLM, Anyscale, Together AI, and OpenRouter, with an additional path for other integrations.
Is Helicone only an analytics dashboard?
No. The product is described as both an AI gateway and an LLM observability platform.
Is a trial available?
Yes. The site lists a seven-day free trial without a credit card requirement.
