
Helicone is an open-source AI gateway and LLM observability platform used by AI companies to route, debug, and analyze their applications. It covers OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Together AI, Mistral, Groq, and OpenRouter, and is self-hostable via Docker Compose.
Helicone proxies requests to 20+ LLM providers while capturing traces, cost data, prompts, and user analytics. The self-hosted stack runs on Docker Compose with ClickHouse, Postgres, MinIO, and a web UI.
Helicone is a Y Combinator-backed company. In 2026 it announced that it was joining Mintlify.