Helicone
Helicone is an open-source observability platform designed for logging, monitoring, and optimizing large language model (LLM) applications.
At a Glance
- AI Startups
- Enterprise AI Teams
- Developer Platform Teams
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Helicone
LLM Observability and Analytics
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Latest News
Helicone is joining Mintlify to redefine AI knowledge infrastructure
Helicone launches Unified AI Gateway with support for 100+ models
Helicone reaches 14.2 trillion tokens processed milestone
Helicone featured as Y Combinator Demo Day favorite
Products & Services
Real-time request logging, session tracing, and analytics for LLM applications.
Smart routing, load balancing, failovers, and caching for 100+ LLM models across multiple providers.
Version control, playground, and testing environment for LLM prompts.
Market Position
Positioned as the most-used LLM observability platform for YC companies, prioritizing open-source and developer-centric infrastructure.
Leadership
Founders
Justin Torre
Previously Software Engineer at Apple, Intel, and Sisu. Co-Founder of Solstice Pay. Graduated from Northeastern University.
Cole Gottdank
Previously Senior Software Engineer at DraftKings and Software Engineer at eMoney Advisor.
Scott Nguyen
Previously Software Engineer at Tesla and DraftKings. Co-founded Helicone (YC W23) before leaving in mid-2024.
Executive Team
Justin Torre
CEO & Co-Founder
Former engineer at Apple and Sisu.
Cole Gottdank
Co-Founder
Former engineer at DraftKings.
Board of Directors
Founding Story
Helicone was started during Y Combinator's W23 batch by founders who noticed that while many were building GPT-based applications, few were addressing the infrastructure, observability, and cost-management needs of those applications.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS subscription with tiered pricing (Hobby, Pro, Team, Enterprise) and usage-based components.
Pricing Tiers
10K requests/month, 1GB storage, 1 seat.
Unlimited seats, alerts & reports, HQL query language.
5 organizations, HIPAA/SOC-2 Type II, dedicated Slack channel.
Unlimited organizations, SAML SSO, on-prem deployment, custom MSAs.
Target Markets
- AI Startups
- Enterprise AI Teams
- Developer Platform Teams
- Building production-ready AI agents
- Optimizing LLM costs across multiple providers
- Monitoring for hallucinations and performance bottlenecks
- Managing prompt iterations in development
- chat.together.ai
- Mintlify