Lunary vs Helicone
Debug the whole customer journey with Lunary. Compare application tracing with Helicone’s gateway and request analytics.
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Choose Lunary to explain what happened across a conversation, agent and tool chain. If provider routing is the main problem, Helicone’s gateway serves a different need; the two can be complementary.
Beyond the model request
Trace agent and tool execution as well as LLM calls.
The conversation behind the failure
Replay the customer exchange and review user feedback.
Keep your provider setup
Send telemetry through SDKs or OpenTelemetry; Lunary is not a routing gateway.
At a glance
| Area | Lunary | Helicone |
|---|---|---|
| Primary architecture to evaluate | Application telemetry via SDKs or OTEL | AI gateway plus observability |
| Customer context | Chats, threads, user context, feedback | Requests, sessions, and custom properties |
| Prompt workflow | Templates and playground | Prompt management with gateway integration |
| MCP | Read-only developer documentation | Query observability data |
| Migration concern | Instrumentation and historical field mapping | Routing behavior as well as data export |
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Where each fits
Helicone participates in the request path to model providers. Lunary receives application telemetry through SDKs or OpenTelemetry.
Look beyond model calls
A successful model request can be followed by a failed tool. Test tool execution, retries, session context and the final response in your chosen integration.
Prompts and MCP
Both document prompt workflows. Helicone’s MCP server queries observability data; Lunary’s public Docs MCP provides read-only developer documentation.
Questions & answers
Must I replace my gateway to change observability?
No. Keep routing dependencies separate and validate each change.
Does a model tool call prove the tool ran?
No. Record the actual execution result, duration and error under the parent run.
By Lunary · Documentation reviewed Sep 16, 2026
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Based on vendor documentation, not an independent benchmark or hands-on rating. Features and plans can change.
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