helicone
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Helicone is an open-source developer-tools company founded in 2023 by Justin Torre and Cole Gottdank and headquartered in San Francisco, CA. The company graduated from Y Combinator's Winter 2023 (W23) batch and grew to serve more than 16,000 organizations, processing over 14 trillion tokens across its platform. In March 2026, Helicone was acquired by developer-documentation company Mintlify, with its founding team joining Mintlify to build AI knowledge infrastructure.
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Helicone is an AI Gateway and LLM observability platform that lets developers route, monitor, and debug AI applications across 100+ models with a single API key. It provides real-time cost and latency tracking, prompt management, agent tracing, and one-line integration with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other major providers. It's backed by Y Combinator and used by fast-growing AI companies to build more reliable AI products.