
Langfuse vs Helicone: I Tested Both for LLM Observability (2026)
Langfuse vs Helicone for LLM observability in 2026: SDK span trees vs one-line proxy plus AI Gateway, pricing, real Claude agent test, and decision tree.
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Langfuse vs Helicone for LLM observability in 2026: SDK span trees vs one-line proxy plus AI Gateway, pricing, real Claude agent test, and decision tree.

Compare LiteLLM, Portkey, Cloudflare AI Gateway, OpenRouter, Helicone, and Kong AI Gateway for production LLM apps in 2026 — pricing, fallbacks, caching, and which one fits your stack.

I instrumented a Claude Sonnet 4.6 + pgvector RAG app across 7 LLM observability platforms — Langfuse, Helicone, Phoenix, Braintrust, Opik, Traceloop, Lunary.
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