

What is Helicone?
Helicone is an LLM observability platform that gives developers visibility into their AI applications. It offers prompt management tools, allowing teams to track changes and run experiments, while providing detailed analytics on request latency, cost, and performance to identify areas for improvement.
What sets Helicone apart?
Helicone distinguishes itself by offering developers a window into their AI application's inner workings. The platform's combination of prompt versioning and performance metrics allows engineering teams to fine-tune their LLM integrations. By providing insights into token usage and response times, Helicone helps AI developers create more reliable and cost-effective applications.
Helicone Use Cases
- Monitor LLM requests
- Debug AI performance
- Manage prompts
- Track AI costs
Who uses Helicone?
Features and Benefits
- Monitor and analyze your LLM requests with detailed metrics on latency, cost, and performance.
Request Analytics
- Organize, version, and optimize your prompts to improve the quality of AI-generated outputs.
Prompt Management
- Reduce costs and improve response times by caching frequently used LLM requests.
Caching
- Gain insights into individual user behavior and usage patterns across your AI applications.
User Tracking
- Easily integrate Helicone with various LLM providers and frameworks using simple API calls or headers.
Integration Flexibility
Helicone Pros and Cons
Pros
Highly responsive and developer-driven team
Quick and easy integration process
Consistently rolls out new features
Provides effective token usage insights
Offers a user-friendly interface
Cons
Limited long-term user feedback available
May have a learning curve for new users
Potential scalability concerns for larger projects
Possible limitations in customization options
Pricing
Free $0/mo
10k free requests per month
Access to Requests & Dashboard
Trace and monitor app's performance
1 month log retention
60 API calls/min
Pro $20/mo
Everything in Free plan
100k requests/mo
Every feature needed (Sessions, Datasets, Caching, Evals, etc.)
Usage-based pricing after free limit
Standard support via email, Discord or Slack
3 months log retention
1k API calls/min
Enterprise Price not available
Everything in Pro plan
SOC-2 Compliance
SSO (Single Sign-On)
Dedicated SLAs
Unlimited requests
Forever log retention
Bulk discounted rate for requests
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