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Helicone

San Francisco, US · founded 2023
L6 · AI Runtime, Serving & Model Access
routing & gatewaysstartupprivateseed

Helicone is an open-source LLM observability, request caching, and routing platform built for generative AI applications. By adding a single line of integration code, developers can log API calls, track costs, and debug prompts across model providers. The platform handles request caching, rate limit management, and fallback routing during upstream provider degradation.

Ecosystem functionProvides developer-first observability and caching proxy tooling to monitor and optimize production LLM applications.

Business modelFreemium SaaS subscription based on logged events

Revenue—
Valuation$20Mestimated
Last round$500Kled by Y Combinator · 2023
Sources · 2 ↓
  1. https://www.helicone.ai
  2. https://tracxn.com/d/companies/helicone/__Y_IYCX6RM9C6orehaoc7DBGlWaxXvHatRUYss5gZHGU
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