# Helicone alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 220 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Helicone holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/helicone/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- LiteLLM: 53
- Portkey: 44
- Bifrost: 34
- OpenRouter: 7
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: 5
- FastRouter: 5

## LLM gateways and observability

**Small business**: 61 of 84 answers did not name Helicone (Helicone is #3 of 9 at 10%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 19 of those 61
- Portkey: first choice in 16 of those 61
- OpenRouter: first choice in 7 of those 61
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 4 of those 61
- Vercel AI Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 61
- Anthropic: first choice in 1 of those 61
- Bifrost: first choice in 1 of those 61
- Langfuse: first choice in 1 of those 61

**Mid-market**: 78 of 84 answers did not name Helicone (Helicone is #4 of 9 at 4%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 21 of those 78
- Portkey: first choice in 17 of those 78
- Bifrost: first choice in 11 of those 78
- Braintrust Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 78
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 78
- Envoy AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 78
- FastRouter: first choice in 1 of those 78
- LangSmith: first choice in 1 of those 78

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Helicone (Helicone is #9 of 10 at 0%).

- Bifrost: first choice in 22 of those 81
- LiteLLM: first choice in 13 of those 81
- Portkey: first choice in 11 of those 81
- FastRouter: first choice in 4 of those 81
- Kong AI Gateway: first choice in 3 of those 81
- Azure API Management: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Confident AI: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 81

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