Helicone alternatives

At a glance

We list 9 other LLM observability tools as alternatives to Helicone: Braintrust, Confident AI, Langfuse, LangSmith, Opik, Portkey, PromptLayer, Traceloop and W&B Weave.
Braintrust, Confident AI, Langfuse, LangSmith, Opik, Portkey, PromptLayer and Traceloop have a free plan.
Braintrust, Langfuse, Opik, Portkey and Traceloop work with OpenAI, as Helicone does.
Braintrust, Langfuse, Portkey and Traceloop work with Anthropic, as Helicone does.

From each tool's own website and from published reviews. Each tool's page says when its facts were checked.

9 alternatives

Listed alphabetically. A tool is ranked by its reviews once it has 3.

Braintrust
The AI observability platform for tracing production, running evals, and catching regressions.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: integration with LangChain, OpenTelemetry or Claude Code; SOC 2 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Pro, $249 per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
OpenAI, Anthropic
Main features
Evals, Loop agent, Pattern discovery
Security and compliance
SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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Confident AI
The AI quality platform for enterprise teams to standardize AI evals and observability across the org.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: integration with OpenAI Agents, LangChain or LlamaIndex; SOC 2 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Starter, $200 per organization per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
LiteLLM
Main features
LLM evaluation, LLM observability, Voice AI evaluation
Security and compliance
SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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Langfuse
Trace, evaluate, and improve AI agents with one open platform.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: a lower starting price; integration with LangChain or PostHog; SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Core, $29 per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
OpenAI, Anthropic, LiteLLM, OpenRouter
Main features
Evaluation, Prompt management, AI gateway
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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LangSmith
Complete AI agent and LLM observability platform with tracing and real-time monitoring.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: integration with OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK or Vercel AI SDK.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Plus, $39 per seat per month, then pay as you go (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
None in common
Main features
Agent tracing, Production monitoring, SmithDB trace search
Security and compliance
SSO
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Opik
An end-to-end AI observability platform to test, ship, and improve agentic systems.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: a lower starting price; integration with LangChain, CrewAI or Ragas; SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Pro Cloud, $19 per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Free trial
Yes
Integrations shared with Helicone
OpenAI
Main features
LLM-as-a-judge evaluation, Production monitoring, Test suites
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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Portkey
AI gateway and observability for AI teams.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: a lower starting price; integration with MongoDB, LangChain or CrewAI; SOC 2, ISO 27001 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Production, $49 per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
OpenAI, Anthropic
Main features
Observability, Prompt management, MCP gateway
Security and compliance
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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PromptLayer
The prompt CMS, eval harness, and observability stack for AI engineering teams.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: a lower starting price; integration with Claude Code; SOC 2 or GDPR.
Free plan
Yes
Paid plans from
Pro, $49 per month (as of November 14, 2026)
Integrations shared with Helicone
None in common
Main features
Prompt management, Agent observability, Evaluations
Security and compliance
SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO
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Traceloop
Traceloop turns evals and monitors into a continuous feedback loop so every release gets better.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: integration with LangChain or Pinecone; SOC 2.
Free plan
Yes
Plans
Free: $0 (as of November 14, 2026)
Free trial
14 days
Integrations shared with Helicone
OpenAI, Anthropic
Main features
Built-in quality checks, Evaluations in pipeline, Monitoring dashboard
Security and compliance
SOC 2, HIPAA
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W&B Weave
Observability and continuous improvement for production agents.
No reviews yet
Choose it over Helicone for: integration with Slack or Claude Code.
Free trial
Yes
Integrations shared with Helicone
None in common
Main features
Agent-native tracing, Behavior monitoring, Flexible evaluation framework
Security and compliance
HIPAA, SSO
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At a glance

We list 9 other LLM observability tools as alternatives to Helicone: Braintrust, Confident AI, Langfuse, LangSmith, Opik, Portkey, PromptLayer, Traceloop and W&B Weave.

Braintrust, Confident AI, Langfuse, LangSmith, Opik, Portkey, PromptLayer and Traceloop have a free plan.

Braintrust, Langfuse, Opik, Portkey and Traceloop work with OpenAI, as Helicone does.

Braintrust, Langfuse, Portkey and Traceloop work with Anthropic, as Helicone does.

From each tool's own website and from published reviews. Each tool's page says when its facts were checked.