---
name: Helicone
domain: helicone.ai
kind: product
relation: competitor
segment: AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure
descGrounded: 0.58
---

# Helicone

An AI gateway and LLM observability tool that helps developers route, debug, and analyze AI application requests.

**Route:** surfaced by the AI Development and Deployment Infrastructure lane's de-branded queries → competitor to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Sells the same AI-gateway and observability capability to the same frontend and AI/agent developers that Vercel targets with its AI SDK and AI Gateway.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> Build Reliable AI Apps

> route, debug, and analyze their applications

> AI Gateway &amp; LLM Observability

**Edges:**

- competitor [[truefoundry-com]]
- competitor [[braintrust-dev]]
- competitor [[openrouter-ai]]
- competitor [[litellm-ai]]
- competitor [[portkey-ai]]
- competitor [[inworld-ai]]
- competitor [[zuplo-com]]
- competitor [[llmgateway-io]]
- competitor [[agenta-ai]]
