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Helicone

AI Agents

Overview

An AI gateway and observability platform that tracks every LLM request. It provides the monitoring, caching, and debugging tools needed to manage production AI agents.

Helicone is an observability and gateway layer for LLM applications, capturing every request to give you logs, cost analytics, caching, and debugging in one place. Integrating is often as simple as changing a base URL, which makes adoption low-friction. For teams running agents in production, it provides the visibility needed to control cost and quality.

Key Features

  • Request logging and tracing for every LLM call
  • Cost and usage analytics
  • Caching and rate-limit management
  • Simple proxy-based integration
  • Open-source with a hosted option

Best For

Teams running LLM agents in production who need cost visibility and debugging.

Pros & Cons

Pros
  • Very easy to integrate
  • Clear cost and usage insights
  • Open-source and self-hostable
Cons
  • Observability only, not orchestration
  • Proxy approach adds a network hop
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Pulse Verdict

Essential infrastructure for production AI. Its automatic request tracking and cost analytics are indispensable for anyone scaling agentic workflows.

Pricing

Free tier with generous logging; paid plans for higher volume and retention.

Pricing changes often — confirm current plans on the official site.

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