Helicone vs Respan vs Sherlocks.ai vs Portkey

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

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Helicone
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Competitor 1
Respan
Competitor 2
Sherlocks.ai
Competitor 3
Portkey
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4 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool Helicone
helicone.ai
Helicone is an AI gateway and LLM observability platform that routes, debugs and analyzes requests from AI applications.
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Competitor Respan
respan.ai
Building AI apps
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Competitor Sherlocks.ai
sherlocks.ai
When production systems fail at 3 AM, Sherlocks
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Competitor Portkey
portkey.ai
Portkey puts a single API in front of more than 1,600 language models and wraps it with the controls a production AI team needs.
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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87.3Kvisits/mo
39.2Kvisits/mo
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MoM change
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▲ 28.5%
▲ 1,022.6%
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6-month growth
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+881.1%
+1,482.1%
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Global rank web
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#497,399
#729,963
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Avg. last 3 months
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74.8K
15.5K
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Bounce rate lower is better
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41%
57%
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Pages / visit
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2.5
3.8
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Visit duration
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19s
5m 24s
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Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 11%
● Direct 100%
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HeliconeRespanSherlocks.aiPortkey
021.8K43.6K65.4K87.3KRespan · 641Respan · 8.9KRespan · 37.2KRespan · 57.9KRespan · 69.1KRespan · 67.9KRespan · 87.3KSherlocks.ai · 2.5KSherlocks.ai · 3.2KSherlocks.ai · 5.7KSherlocks.ai · 3.8KSherlocks.ai · 3.5KSherlocks.ai · 39.2K1001K10K100KRespan · 641Respan · 8.9KRespan · 37.2KRespan · 57.9KRespan · 69.1KRespan · 67.9KRespan · 87.3KSherlocks.ai · 2.5KSherlocks.ai · 3.2KSherlocks.ai · 5.7KSherlocks.ai · 3.8KSherlocks.ai · 3.5KSherlocks.ai · 39.2KFeb '26MarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Freemium
Starting price
$79per month · free tier available
$199per month · free tier available
Free tier
$49per month · free tier available
Free tier
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Plans
Hobby FreePro $79/moTeam $799/moEnterprise Custom
Free FreeTeam $199/yrEnterprise Custom
Free FreeEnterprise Contact us
Developer FreeProduction $49/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Data
DataText
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Text
Output
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DataText
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
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Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Developer ToolsAI Monitor
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Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI Developer ToolsAI Monitor
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI APIAI Developer Tools+1 more
Tasks what each tool can do · 2 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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Monitoring
Developer tools
AI system monitoring
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Prompt management
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AI observability
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LLM gateway
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Debugging
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Model routing
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Application monitoring
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Root cause analysis
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Site reliability management
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API management
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LLM management
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LLM testing
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Kubernetes diagnostics
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LLM development
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Prompt security
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Red teaming guidance
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Triage optimization
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