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Best Helicone alternatives

8 tools developers use instead of Helicone, ranked by popularity. 8 offer a free plan and 4 are open source. Updated October 2026.

Free Open source Showing 1–8 of 8
  1. LangSmith logo

    LangSmith

    Free plan

    LangChain's observability and evaluation platform for LLM applications, tracing every step of a chain or agent run and scoring outputs against test datasets.

  2. OpenRouter logo

    OpenRouter

    Free plan

    Unified API and marketplace for LLMs, routing requests to the best available provider for a given model and handling failover automatically across dozens of providers.

  3. Arize Phoenix logo

    Arize Phoenix

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source LLM observability and evaluation platform built on OpenTelemetry, with tracing, datasets, experiments and prompt tooling.

  4. Langfuse logo

    Langfuse

    Free plan Open source

    Open-source LLM observability platform for tracing, evaluating, and debugging prompts and agent runs, self-hostable or available as a managed cloud service.

  5. LiteLLM logo

    LiteLLM

    Free Open source

    Open-source Python library and proxy server that calls 100+ LLM providers through one OpenAI-compatible interface, with built-in cost tracking and load balancing.

  6. W&B Weave logo

    W&B Weave

    Free plan Open source

    Weights & Biases toolkit for tracing, evaluating and monitoring LLM applications, with automatic call logging and scorers.

  7. Braintrust logo

    Braintrust

    Free plan

    Evaluation-first platform for LLM applications, treating prompt and model changes like code changes that need regression tests before shipping.

  8. Portkey logo

    Portkey

    Free plan

    AI gateway for production LLM apps, combining provider routing and failover with caching, guardrails, and observability in one managed layer.