Apitally vs Helicone

Apitally is a cloud service for API usage analytics, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting dashboards, added with a few lines of code. Dashboards track request volume, errors, response times, and consumer activity by endpoint and consumer. Optional logs let teams search requests and responses with correlated application logs and traces. Threshold alerts cover 14 traffic, error, and performance metrics, plus uptime and synthetic HTTP health checks. Notifications can go to Slack or Microsoft Teams. Supported frameworks include FastAPI, Django REST Framework, Flask, Express, Fastify, Hono, and ASP.NET Core, with Cloudflare Workers support through Logpush and serverless SDKs for Hono and FastAPI. SDKs aggregate metrics on the client, while logging and trace collection can be configured and sensitive data masked or excluded. Apitally says transfers use HTTPS and TLS, with database storage and backups encrypted at rest. Aggregated metrics remain 13 months; request and application logs 15 days; backups seven days. There is no free plan; a 14-day trial is offered.

Helicone routes, debugs, and analyzes AI applications through a gateway and observability tools. The gateway provides access to more than 100 models through the OpenAI SDK by changing the model name, and supports load balancing, automatic failovers, and response caching across providers. Helicone logs requests in real time and visualizes multi-step LLM interactions to help locate error causes. Listed integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, LiteLLM, Anyscale, Together AI, and OpenRouter. It can run in customer infrastructure through single-click deployment or a production-ready Helm chart; Helicone also states that its cloud is SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR compliant. A LangGraph integration tracks calls, sessions, performance, and costs, while an API cost calculator covers more than 300 models and providers. The free Hobby plan includes 10,000 requests, 1 GB storage, one seat, one organization, and seven days of retention. Pro costs $79.00 per month. A seven-day trial is advertised. Helicone says its services remain live in maintenance mode following acquisition by Mintlify, with security updates, new models, and bug and performance fixes continuing.