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      "slug": "helicone",
      "name": "Helicone AI Gateway + MCP",
      "vendor": "Helicone (Mintlify)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.helicone.ai",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "agent-observability",
      "summary": "Open-source LLM observability that logs requests through an OpenAI-compatible gateway (100+ models, fallbacks, caching, rate limits) or async logging.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/helicone",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/helicone.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/helicone.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/helicone.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/Helicone/helicone",
      "license": "Apache-2.0",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://ai-gateway.helicone.ai",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@helicone/helpers"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "helicone-helpers"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@helicone/mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Helicone API key (`sk-helicone-...`) as a Bearer token on the gateway and REST API. Bring your own provider keys, or bill model usage to Helicone credits, which since 25 August 2026 only works for organisations Helicone has switched on (others get a 403 asking them to contact support). The MCP server reads `HELICONE_API_KEY` from the environment.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Hobby free with 10,000 requests a month, 1 GB of storage, 1 seat and 7 days of retention, no card. Pro $79 a month and Team $799 a month, each with 10,000 requests and 1 GB free then usage-based charges the pricing page doesn't itemise. The pricing page still shows 7-day trials, but a commit on 30 August 2026 removed the in-app self-serve upgrade paths and sends upgrades to a contact page. Enterprise custom. Gateway credits pass model prices through at 0% markup, but since 25 August 2026 need Helicone to enable them per organisation. Self-hosted is free under Apache-2.0 with Docker Compose or Helm, you run ClickHouse, Postgres and object storage (https://www.helicone.ai/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$79 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 3,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 6190,
        "npmWeekly": 4328,
        "pypiWeekly": 4210,
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      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.helicone.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.helicone.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.helicone.ai/ai-gateway.openapi.json",
      "capabilities": [
        "obs.traces",
        "obs.gateway",
        "obs.prompts",
        "obs.datasets",
        "obs.evals"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "typescript",
        "python",
        "webhooks"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-16",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 47.1,
        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 387,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 9,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 66,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 50,
          "transparency": 71
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -10,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "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)",
          "2026-09-16. A second fix closed a platform-admin takeover with a forged API key and a cross-tenant read through HQL, reported through Helicone's disclosure programme the same day. Fixed within hours and again disclosed only in the commit. -3 (https://github.com/Helicone/helicone/commit/067d9290acb4f1fc9320e902fc67b4b399b50363)"
        ],
        "verdict": "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.",
        "strengths": [
          "One base-URL change gives logging, caching, fallbacks and rate limits for 100+ models",
          "Apache-2.0 with Docker Compose and Helm self-hosting",
          "Per-plan ingestion and API rate limits published on the pricing page",
          "OpenAPI for the gateway, a Swagger file for the REST API and an llms.txt",
          "Free Hobby plan with 10,000 requests a month and no card"
        ],
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          "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",
          "Maintenance mode since March 2026, changelog silent since 26 November 2025, and Experiments, Realtime and self-serve upgrades removed on 30 August 2026",
          "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",
          "Helicone credits need a per-organisation switch since 25 August 2026, so new accounts must bring their own provider keys",
          "Privacy policy last updated in February 2023, with no retention period or DPA"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Bring your own provider keys. Helicone credits return 403 unless support has enabled them for the organisation",
          "Rotate any provider keys stored in Helicone before 30 August 2026",
          "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",
          "Use the EU host (eu.helicone.ai) if the account was created there"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
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        "avgRating": 2,
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            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "D",
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              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 47.1
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          "maintenance": 66,
          "payments": 30,
          "reliability": 50,
          "schema": 69,
          "security": 50,
          "transparency": 60
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://ai-gateway.helicone.ai/chat/completions -H \"Authorization: Bearer $HELICONE_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{\"model\":\"gpt-4o-mini\",\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"Hello\"}]}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add helicone -e HELICONE_API_KEY=$HELICONE_API_KEY -- npx -y @helicone/mcp@latest",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "helicone": {
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                "-y",
                "@helicone/mcp@latest"
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              "command": "npx",
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                "HELICONE_API_KEY": "${HELICONE_API_KEY}"
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      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces",
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          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 79,
          "note": "10,000 requests and 1 GB free, then usage-based"
        },
        {
          "item": "Team plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 799,
          "note": "5 organisations, SOC 2 and HIPAA, 10,000 requests and 1 GB free, then usage-based"
        }
      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Helicone, Inc.",
        "domain": "helicone.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2022-11-14",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.helicone.ai/terms",
        "privacy": "https://www.helicone.ai/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.helicone.ai",
        "changelog": "https://www.helicone.ai/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Terms still name Helicone, Inc. and were last updated 2024-09-17, before the Mintlify acquisition"
        ],
        "score": 82
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/helicone.json",
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          "target": "https://ai-gateway.helicone.ai",
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          "lastOk": true,
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
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          ]
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        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://status.helicone.ai",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:07.260917749Z"
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:42.63667923Z"
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          "url": "https://docs.helicone.ai/llms.txt",
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          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:52.198561612Z"
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          "domain": "helicone.ai",
          "registered": "2022-11-14",
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            "url": "https://www.helicone.ai/blog/joining-mintlify",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:38.173666232Z",
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            "url": "https://www.helicone.ai/pricing",
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            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:42.468836302Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "4b1e79419d28"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.helicone.ai/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:44.402436735Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "47e9ad5d395a"
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          {
            "url": "https://www.helicone.ai/terms",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:50:46.370943239Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:26.798144739Z"
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      "slug": "langfuse",
      "name": "Langfuse API + MCP",
      "vendor": "Langfuse (ClickHouse)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://langfuse.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "agent-observability",
      "summary": "Open-source tracing, evaluation, prompt management and datasets for LLM apps and agents, built on OpenTelemetry.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langfuse",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langfuse.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langfuse.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langfuse.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse",
      "license": "MIT (core), commercial licence for the ee directories",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
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      "remoteUrl": "https://cloud.langfuse.com/api/public",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "langfuse"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@langfuse/tracing"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@langfuse/client"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Project-scoped key pair (public `pk-lf-...`, secret `sk-lf-...`) sent as HTTP Basic auth, for both the REST API and the MCP server at `/api/public/mcp`. Organisation-level keys exist for SCIM and admin APIs on Enterprise.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Cloud Hobby is free with 50,000 units a month, 30 days of data and 2 users, no card. Core $29 a month with 100,000 units and 90 days, Pro $199 a month with 3 years of data, Enterprise $2,499 a month. Extra units cost $8 per 100,000 on paid plans, lower with volume. A unit is one trace, observation or score. Teams add-on $300 a month for SSO and fine-grained RBAC. Self-hosted open source is free with unlimited usage, you pay for your own Postgres, ClickHouse, Redis and blob storage. Self-hosted Enterprise is custom and sold on top of a ClickHouse plan (https://langfuse.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$29 / mo",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 support in docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
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      "toolCount": 89,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 35235,
        "npmWeekly": 3039593,
        "pypiWeekly": 5865664,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
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      "docsUrl": "https://langfuse.com/docs",
      "llmsTxt": "https://langfuse.com/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://cloud.langfuse.com/generated/api/openapi.yml",
      "capabilities": [
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        "obs.evals",
        "obs.prompts",
        "obs.datasets"
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      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "open-source",
        "self-hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "openapi",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "webhooks"
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      "lastRelease": "2026-10-01",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 72.8,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 66,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 2,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 93,
          "security": 65,
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        "pending": [
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        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "high",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
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        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2025-11-09 to 2026-01-21. Three moderate advisories, cross-organisation enumeration of member and invitation lists (GHSA-94hf-6gqq-pj69), SSO account takeover through CSRF or phishing (GHSA-w9pw-c549-5m6w) and an unauthenticated Slack OAuth install that could link Slack to any project (GHSA-pvq7-vvfj-p98x). All fixed and published, eight to eleven months old, so -2 (https://github.com/langfuse/langfuse/security/advisories)"
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        "verdict": "MIT core with no usage limits when self-hosted, and self-hosted telemetry documented with an off switch. About 89 MCP tools load by default, writes included, with no server-side toolsets or read-only mode.",
        "strengths": [
          "MIT core with no usage limits when self-hosted, and self-hosted telemetry documented with an off switch",
          "Rate limits per bucket and plan, with 429 and `Retry-After` documented",
          "Per-unit cloud pricing at $8 per 100,000 units, and a free Hobby plan with 50,000 units and no card",
          "Bug bounty, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and four GitHub advisories handled in public over the last year",
          "Deprecated v1 read APIs have a dated sunset of 16 November 2026 and a migration guide"
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          "About 89 MCP tools load by default, writes included, with no server-side toolsets or read-only mode",
          "12 degraded incidents on the status page between 3 July and 30 September, mostly ingestion delays",
          "No uptime SLA found, only support response targets",
          "Hobby keeps 30 days of data and the General API bucket allows 30 requests a minute",
          "Self-hosting means running ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis and S3-compatible storage"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Allowlist only the tools the agent needs. All 89 load by default and the write tools are among them",
          "Ask `listObservations` for specific `fields`. Requesting input, output or metadata caps the page at 50 rows and the range at 14 days",
          "Move off `GET /api/public/traces` and the other v1 reads before 16 November 2026",
          "On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. MCP calls share the organisation's General API bucket",
          "Pick the regional host (cloud, us.cloud, jp.cloud, hipaa.cloud) that matches the project's keys"
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        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
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        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
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            "confidence": "high",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 72.8
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        "editorialScores": {
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          "maintenance": 88,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 93,
          "security": 65,
          "transparency": 91
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
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      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -u \"$LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY:$LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY\" https://cloud.langfuse.com/api/public/projects",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http langfuse https://cloud.langfuse.com/api/public/mcp \\\n  --header \"Authorization: Basic $(printf '%s:%s' \"$LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY\" \"$LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY\" | base64)\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/obs.traces",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/langfuse"
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      "area": "developer",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Core plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 29,
          "note": "100,000 units included, 90 days of data"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 199,
          "note": "100,000 units included, 3 years of data"
        },
        {
          "item": "Enterprise plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 2499,
          "note": "100,000 units included, audit logs, SCIM, SLAs"
        },
        {
          "item": "Teams add-on",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 300,
          "note": "SSO, SSO enforcement and fine-grained RBAC on Pro"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Langfuse GmbH (a ClickHouse, Inc. company)",
        "domain": "langfuse.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2023-04-20",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://clickhouse.com/legal/clickhouse-general-terms-and-conditions",
        "privacy": "https://langfuse.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://status.langfuse.com",
        "changelog": "https://langfuse.com/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The imprint names Langfuse GmbH in Berlin. The privacy notice is issued by ClickHouse, Inc. and langfuse.com/terms redirects to the ClickHouse general terms"
        ],
        "score": 82
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langfuse.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "langfuse",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://cloud.langfuse.com/api/public",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:27.969582516Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 61,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 54,
          "p95ms24h": 90,
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          "samples30d": 1140,
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              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/langfuse.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/langfuse.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Helicone AI Gateway + MCP for nothing in particular (no category where it leads by five points or more).\n\nPick Langfuse API + MCP for reliability (+30), schema \u0026 documentation (+24), security \u0026 auth (+15), payments \u0026 pricing (+10), maintenance \u0026 community (+22), transparency \u0026 trust (+16).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Helicone AI Gateway + MCP | Langfuse API + MCP | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 50 | 80 | Langfuse API + MCP +30 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 69 | 93 | Langfuse API + MCP +24 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 70 | 74 | Langfuse API + MCP +4 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 50 | 65 | Langfuse API + MCP +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 30 | 40 | Langfuse API + MCP +10 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 66 | 88 | Langfuse API + MCP +22 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 71 | 87 | Langfuse API + MCP +16 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | -10 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **47.1 · D** | **72.8 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Helicone AI Gateway + MCP | Langfuse API + MCP |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Helicone (Mintlify) | Langfuse (ClickHouse) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://ai-gateway.helicone.ai` | `https://cloud.langfuse.com/api/public` |\n| Transports | HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Apache-2.0 | MIT (core), commercial licence for the ee directories |\n| Tools exposed | 3 | 89 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | not listed | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-16 | 2026-10-01 |\n| Popularity | 6.2k stars, 4.3k npm/wk, 4.2k PyPI/wk | 35k stars, 3M npm/wk, 5.9M PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | 4/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\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**Langfuse API + MCP.** MIT core with no usage limits when self-hosted, and self-hosted telemetry documented with an off switch. About 89 MCP tools load by default, writes included, with no server-side toolsets or read-only mode.\n\n## Before you call either\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### Langfuse API + MCP\n\n1. Allowlist only the tools the agent needs. All 89 load by default and the write tools are among them\n2. Ask `listObservations` for specific `fields`. Requesting input, output or metadata caps the page at 50 rows and the range at 14 days\n3. Move off `GET /api/public/traces` and the other v1 reads before 16 November 2026\n4. On 429, wait for `Retry-After`. MCP calls share the organisation's General API bucket\n5. Pick the regional host (cloud, us.cloud, jp.cloud, hipaa.cloud) that matches the project's keys\n\n## Other comparisons with Helicone AI Gateway + MCP or Langfuse API + MCP\n\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Arize Phoenix vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/arize-phoenix-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Baserun vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Baserun vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/baserun-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Braintrust API + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/braintrust-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs Helicone AI Gateway + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-helicone.md)\n- [Galileo API + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/galileo-vs-langfuse.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 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- [HoneyHive vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/honeyhive-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Laminar API + MCP vs Langfuse API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laminar-vs-langfuse.md)\n- [Langfuse API + MCP vs LangSmith API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langfuse-vs-langsmith.md)\n- [Langfuse API + MCP vs Respan API + MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/langfuse-vs-respan.md)\n",
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