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Helicone vs Laminar

A like-for-like, spec-level comparison. Both entries are verified against their docs and repo.

Helicone

Proxy-based LLM observability with instant cost tracking.

  • + Fastest setup via a drop-in proxy
  • + Automatic cost and rate-limit tracking
  • − Eval features lighter than competitors
  • − Proxy model adds a hop

Laminar

Open-source observability and eval for AI agents.

  • + Open source with a Rust core for performance
  • + Built-in eval and datasets
  • − Smaller community
  • − Newer project
Spec Helicone Laminar
Role Observability Observability
Tags observability, llm-gateway, persona-platform-engineer observability, evaluation, persona-data-scientist, persona-platform-engineer
License Apache-2.0 Apache-2.0
Open source Yes Yes
Self-hostable Yes Yes
MCP support No No
Pricing freemium freemium
Price Free tier Free tier
Usage cost No model cost No model cost
Models multi multi
Languages typescript typescript, rust
GitHub stars 5.9k 3.1k
Last activity 2026-06-11 2026-07-03