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Helicone

Open-source observability for LLM apps via a proxy — logging, caching, and cost tracking with one header.

★ 5.9k on GitHub·TypeScript·data updated 2026-07-06
GitHub stars★ 5.9k
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryObservability

What Helicone is for

Alternatives to Helicone

Langfuse

Observability · TypeScript
★ 31k

Open-source LLM engineering platform — tracing, evals, prompt management, and metrics for agent apps.

Phoenix

Observability · Jupyter Notebook
★ 10k

Arize's open-source observability for LLM apps — OpenTelemetry-based tracing and evaluation.

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