Lunary is a modern Helicone alternative

Helicone is a good tool for general-purpose LLM observability but lacks some critical features for LLM chatbots.

We are building Lunary to be the best monitoring tool for AI chatbots. It’s cost‑effective and quick to set up.

Get started

Quick look

Why people prefer Lunary over Helicone

Lunary

Beautiful & modern UI
Built for chatbot use-cases
Stable product
Topic classification
Data-sensitivity features like PII masking
Enterprise ready

Helicone

Adds latency & point of failure to requests
Prompts are not free
No chatbot analytics features
Lack of privacy-protection features
Lack of Enterprise features such as RBAC

Features

Helicone vs Lunary: side by side

	Helicone	Lunary
Open Source The source code can be reviewed and people can contribute to it.	✅	✅
Self Hostable Deploy on your own infrastructure to maintain full control over costs and data privacy.	✅	✅
1-line Integration Get started in 2 minutes reporting data.	⚠️ Proxy mode: adds latency and point of failure	✅
Prompt Playground Experiment and play with prompts in the dashboard.	✅	✅
Prompt Templates Manage prompt templates with versioning.	⚠️ Available as a paid add-on.	✅
Chat Replays Replay user conversations and interactions with your chatbot.	❌	✅
Analytics Track your LLM usage with analytics.	✅	✅
Topic Classification Classify conversations into topics.	❌	✅
Agent Tracing Debug LLM agents with powerful nested tracing.	⚠️ Very limited, no auto-instrumentation with decorators or LangChain callback handler.	✅
Custom Dashboards Create custom dashboards to share insights with your team.	❌	✅
Score LLM responses Easily score conversations in 1 line of code based on custom criterias or evaluation metrics.	✅	✅
PII Masking Automatically mask PII data in your conversations while keeping all the data local.	❌	✅
User Tracking Identify and review conversations from each user.	✅	✅
Feedback Tracking Collect feedback directly from your users.	✅	✅
Bootstrapped The company cares more about customers than investors.	❌	✅

Migrate from Helicone to Lunary

Currently a Helicone customer? We've made it easy to migrate to Lunary.
We can migrate all of your data from Helicone to Lunary within 72 hours. Reach out to us to get started.

Schedule a call

Trusted

Lunary customers and usecases

Helicone is a solution for startups and individuals but lacks essential features for large companies.

Because Lunary is a flexible, customizable, and reliable solution, we have customers all the way from 2-person startups to billion dollar companies like DHL and Bandwidth.

5000+ AI developers at top companies build better with Lunary