Updated March 10, 2026
Helicone is an open-source LLM observability and proxy platform. By adding a single line of code, developers get request logging, cost tracking, caching, rate limiting, and analytics for their LLM applications. Helicone supports all major LLM providers and can function as both a gateway proxy and a logging-only integration.
Orq.ai is an EU-hosted AI gateway and LLMOps platform with routing across 500+ models, tracing, evals, prompt management, and agent governance.
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