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helicone
🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓
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🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓
**Helicone/helicone** is an open-source project by Helicone: 🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓. Indexed here so it can be found — not resold.
It is free. Get it from the upstream repository: https://github.com/Helicone/helicone
From the project's own README (excerpt, reproduced for discovery under its Apache-2.0 license):
🔍 Observability 🕸️ Agent Tracing 🚂 LLM Routing 💰 Cost & Latency Tracking 📚 Datasets & Fine-tuning 🎛️ Automatic Fallbacks
Docs • Changelog • Bug reports • See Helicone in Action! (Free)
Helicone is an AI Gateway & LLM Observability Platform for AI Engineers • 🌐 AI Gateway: Access 100+ AI models with 1 API key through the OpenAI API with intelligent routing and automatic fallbacks. Get started in 2 minutes. • 🔌 Quick integration: One-line of code to log all your requests from OpenAI, Anthropic, LangChain, Gemini, Vercel AI SDK, and more. • 📊 Observe: Inspect and debug traces & sessions for agents, chatbots, document processing pipelines, and more • 📈 Analyze: Track metrics like cost, latency, quality, and more. Export to PostHog in one-line for custom dashboards • 🎮 Playground: Rapidly test and iterate on prompts, sessions and traces in our UI. • 🧠 Prompt Management: Version prompts using production data. Deploy prompts through the AI Gateway without code changes. Your prompts remain under your control, always accessible. • 🎛️ Fine-tune: Fine-tune with one of our fine-tuning partners: OpenPipe or Autonomi (more coming soon) • 🛡️ Enterprise Ready: SOC 2 and GDPR compliant
> 🎁 Generous monthly free tier (10k requests/month) - No credit card required! >
Quick Start ⚡️
1. Get your API key by signing up here and add credits at helicone.ai/credits
2. Update the baseURL in your code and add your API key.
3. 🎉 You're all set! View your logs at Helicone and access 100+ models through one API.
Self-Hosting Open Source LLM Observability
Docker
Helicone is simple to self-host and update. To get started locally, just use our docker-compose file.
Helm
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Capabilities
Requirements & stack
Depends on
- → PostgreSQL database
- → Authentication
- → Programmatic API
Credentials needed
None declared
Stack
Companions & conflicts
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- behavioral sandbox Not performed in this environment — requires the production isolated runner (docs/sandbox-requirements.md). No untrusted code is ever executed on the application host.
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Versions
Full history →| Version | Channel | Released | Notes |
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| 0.0.0 | stable | Aug 1, 2026 | Indexed listing — see the upstream repository for real release history. |
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