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Helicone

AI Gateway & LLM Observability platform for routing, debugging, and analyzing AI applications, empowering developers to build reliable AI solutions.

Introduction

Helicone is an AI Gateway and LLM Observability platform designed to enhance the reliability and performance of AI applications. It provides tools for routing, debugging, and analyzing LLM-powered applications, enabling developers to gain insights into their AI systems.

Key Features:

  • Routing: Intelligent request routing to optimize performance and cost.
  • Debugging: Comprehensive debugging tools to identify and resolve issues in LLM interactions.
  • Analytics: Detailed analytics to monitor usage, latency, and cost.
  • Observability: Real-time observability into LLM application behavior.

Use Cases:

  • AI Application Development: Streamline the development and deployment of AI applications.
  • LLM Monitoring: Monitor and optimize the performance of LLMs in production.
  • Cost Optimization: Reduce costs by efficiently routing requests to the most suitable LLM providers.
  • Performance Analysis: Analyze and improve the performance of AI applications based on real-world data.

Latest News

Helicone Changelog | Latest Updates & New Features

Helicone Changelog | Latest Updates & New Features

8/5/2026

Stay on top of critical issues with Helicone’s latest update: Slack Integration for Alerts. In addition to email notifications, you can now receive real-time alerts directly in your Slack workspace for faster action when something goes wrong. ... To get started, visit the Alerts page to create or ed...

Helicone is joining Mintlify

Helicone is joining Mintlify

8/5/2026

What this means for you: Helicone's services will remain live for the foreseeable future in maintenance mode. This means security updates, new models, bug & performance fixes all keep shipping.

Helicone Blog | AI Development Insights & Best Practices

Helicone Blog | AI Development Insights & Best Practices

8/5/2026

Learn about the new COD prompting technique, and how its performance and cost stack up against CoT. We also share how you can implement it to improve your AI app's performance and reduce costs. ... We take a look at Anthropic's new Claude Code tool and examine whether it's here to stay or just anoth...

What We've Shipped in the Past 6 Months

What We've Shipped in the Past 6 Months

8/5/2026

We're committed to working even harder to make Helicone better for you, with our ultimate goal being to build a platform that can enable you to deliver the best LLM applications to your customers. If you have any questions or feedback, please don't hesitate to reach out. We're here and would love to...

How We Simplified Helicone's Self-Hosting in 30 Days - Helicone

How We Simplified Helicone's Self-Hosting in 30 Days - Helicone

8/5/2026

Almost every week we release a new version of Helicone which you can find in our Docker Hub repository: https://hub.docker.com/u/helicone. You can easily update your self-hosted Helicone by pulling the latest changes from our GitHub repository and rebuilding the containers. Are the information out o...

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