Helicone

    Helicone/helicone

    🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 πŸ“

    analytics
    ai
    llm
    monitoring
    agent-monitoring
    evaluation
    gpt
    langchain
    large-language-models
    TypeScript
    Apache-2.0
    6.2K stars
    697 forks
    6.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 31, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 436 days ago, with 98 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 49% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an open source platform for observability, monitoring, and evaluation of large language model (LLM) usage with one-line integration.
    • Offers unified API access to 100+ AI models with intelligent routing, automatic fallbacks, and detailed cost and latency tracking.
    • Use for monitoring and debugging AI agents, chatbots, and document processing pipelines with detailed trace and session inspection.
    • Use for managing and versioning prompts in production environments to optimize prompt engineering and deployment without code changes.
    • Use for integrating multiple LLM providers and frameworks like LangChain and Vercel AI SDK to build and analyze AI-powered applications.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present

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    From the README

    🎁 Generous monthly free tier (10k requests/month) - No credit card required!

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    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    697+52

    Open issues

    180+22

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