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Useful when your AI product is live enough that request volume, cost, and debugging start to matter every day.
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An open-source LLM observability platform with a free hobby tier and paid plans for growing AI products.
Helicone is useful for teams that want insight into LLM traffic, monitoring, and cost behavior without building that stack from scratch. It fits best for AI product teams that care about request visibility, debugging, and scaling a monitoring layer alongside real usage.
Editorial note
Useful when your AI product is live enough that request volume, cost, and debugging start to matter every day.
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Helicone has a free Hobby plan with 10,000 free requests. Paid plans start around $79/month, scale to about $799/month, and both paid tiers promote a 7-day free trial.
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