Helicone alternatives
Compare Lunary, Langfuse and LangSmith for observability while keeping gateway requirements clear.
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Start with Lunary when request logs do not explain the customer issue. Connect the conversation to the agent and tool execution, while keeping provider routing as a separate decision.
Lunary
Connect customer conversations, feedback and application runs.
Langfuse
Explore open-source tracing, datasets and evaluations.
LangSmith
Compare connected tracing, experiments and prompt engineering.
At a glance
| Current pain | Evaluate | Success condition |
|---|---|---|
| Hard to understand the customer interaction | Lunary conversation and trace workflow | A teammate explains the failure end to end |
| Need structured evaluation iterations | Langfuse or LangSmith | A repeatable comparison on representative cases |
| Need different provider routing | Gateway options as a separate decision | Errors, streaming, and fallback behavior verified |
| Need better exports | Existing Helicone ETL first | Complete bodies and metadata in a reconciled archive |
See your workflow in Lunary.
Explore conversations, traces and prompt versions with our team.
Keep the gateway decision separate
Helicone routes requests to model providers. Replacing it can affect endpoints, credentials, streaming and retries; changing observability alone does not require that cutover.
Preserve the features you use
Helicone also offers prompts, datasets, exports and observability MCP access. Check these alongside custom tool execution, session context and error visibility.
Move one workload first
Keep the existing route while testing new instrumentation. Export a sample with the request bodies and metadata your debugging or evaluation workflow needs.
Questions & answers
Does Lunary replace every Helicone gateway feature?
Lunary is an observability and development platform, not a provider gateway. Keep or replace routing separately while you move conversation and application tracing to Lunary.
Does Helicone offer MCP access?
Yes. Its MCP server queries observability data, unlike a documentation-only server.
By Lunary · Documentation reviewed Sep 16, 2026
Sources & methodology (9)
Based on vendor documentation, not an independent benchmark or hands-on rating. Features and plans can change.
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