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          "2026-08-30. Helicone's own security commit (INC-657) fixed an authenticated cross-tenant read of other organisations' decrypted provider keys, a route that let any account mint proxy keys spending another organisation's provider key, a shared client that reused one organisation's OpenRouter key for others, an unauthenticated SSRF path and unauthenticated Stripe routes. Fixed, but disclosed only in the commit message, with no advisory or key-rotation notice that we found. -7 after decay for the fix (https://github.com/Helicone/helicone/commit/ca34549ea56f7ed587843f82d9cc19baa1f36ba4)",
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          "The status page has no incident history, leaves out the AI Gateway and doesn't mention the four-day outage of 14 to 18 May 2026",
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          "Leave `use_ai_gateway` out of the MCP client's allowed tools unless the agent is meant to spend on model calls",
          "Add `Helicone-Session-Id` and `Helicone-Session-Path` headers to group an agent's steps into one session",
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Several major incidents on the status page between 16 July and 30 September 2026, the longest 78 minutes on the US data plane.\n\n**Helicone AI Gateway + MCP.** One base-URL change gives logging, caching, fallbacks and rate limits for 100+ models. Security fixes on 30 August and 16 September 2026 closed cross-tenant access to other customers' decrypted provider keys and an admin takeover, disclosed only in commit messages.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Braintrust API + MCP\n\n1. Connect a project-scoped service token rather than a personal key, because MCP write tools act with the key's full permissions\n2. Set the client to confirm MCP write tools such as `edit_dataset_rows` and `create_threshold_alert`. The server has no read-only mode\n3. Cache `sql_query` results. Starter and Pro allow about 20 queries a minute and return 429\n4. Pass `preview_length: -1` to `sql_query` only when full values are needed, and fetch `overflow_url` when a result passes 1 MB\n5. Upgrade to Python `braintrust` 0.28.0 or TypeScript 3.23.1 or later and rotate any provider keys traced before July 2026\n\n### Helicone AI Gateway + MCP\n\n1. Bring your own provider keys. Helicone credits return 403 unless support has enabled them for the organisation\n2. Rotate any provider keys stored in Helicone before 30 August 2026\n3. Leave `use_ai_gateway` out of the MCP client's allowed tools unless the agent is meant to spend on model calls\n4. Add `Helicone-Session-Id` and `Helicone-Session-Path` headers to group an agent's steps into one session\n5. Use the EU host (eu.helicone.ai) if the account was created there\n\n## Other comparisons with Braintrust API + MCP or Helicone AI Gateway + MCP\n\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-braintrust.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Baserun vs Braintrust API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-braintrust.md)\n- [Baserun vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Galileo API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-galileo.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-respan.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs HoneyHive](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-honeyhive.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs Laminar API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-laminar.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Helicone AI Gateway + MCP vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/helicone-vs-respan.md)\n",
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