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Bifrost vs Helicone

Compare Bifrost and Helicone side by side. Both are tools in the LLM Gateways category.

Quick Comparison

	Bifrost	Helicone
Category	LLM Gateways	LLM Gateways
Pricing	open-source	Freemium
Best For	Engineering teams needing high-performance LLM routing	Developer teams who need visibility into their LLM usage, costs, and performance
Website	github.com	helicone.ai
Key Features	High throughput Low latency Go-based Open source	LLM observability and monitoring Cost tracking and analytics Request caching Rate limiting and user management Open-source with managed option
Use Cases	—	LLM cost monitoring and optimization Production request debugging User-level usage tracking and rate limiting Caching to reduce latency and cost Team-wide LLM spend management

When to Choose Bifrost vs Helicone

Choose Helicone if you need

LLM cost monitoring and optimization
Production request debugging
User-level usage tracking and rate limiting

Pricing: Freemium

About Bifrost

High-performance open-source LLM gateway written in Go. Handles ~10k RPS with <10ms latency.

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About Helicone

Helicone is an open-source LLM observability and proxy platform. By adding a single line of code, developers get request logging, cost tracking, caching, rate limiting, and analytics for their LLM applications. Helicone supports all major LLM providers and can function as both a gateway proxy and a logging-only integration.

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What is LLM Gateways?

Unified API platforms and proxies that aggregate multiple LLM providers behind a single endpoint, providing model routing, fallback, caching, rate limiting, cost optimization, and access control.

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