helicone
The premium Open Source alternative to LangSmith
🎯 Best for:Teams requiring strict data privacy and cost transparency for LLM operations.
What is helicone?
A self-hosted alternative to LangSmith that provides a middleware proxy for LLM requests. It captures detailed logs, latency metrics, and token usage with a single line of code integration.
Tech Stack
TypeScriptMonitoring & Logs
Why helicone?
- • High-performance ClickHouse backend
- • Real-time cost estimation
- • Simple proxy-based architecture
Limitations
- • Requires infrastructure management
- • Limited advanced evaluation suites
- • Proxy adds minor latency
3/5/2026
Last Update
495
Forks
64
Issues
Apache-2.0
License
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Competitor Cost
-$1,440
/ year (est. based on LangSmith)
Self-Hosted
$0
/ year
Team Size10 Users
150+
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