Best Helicone Alternatives

Tokscale is a CLI tool that tracks token usage and costs across AI coding agents including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and more. Built with a native Rust core for high-performance processing, it provides detailed breakdowns of input, output, cache, and reasoning tokens with real-time pricing calculations via LiteLLM data. Features include interactive 2D/3D contribution graphs, web visualization dashboards, global leaderboards, and JSON export for cost analysis.

Laminar is an open-source observability platform for AI agents providing tracing, evaluation, and analytics for LLM applications. It integrates with Vercel AI SDK, LangChain, OpenAI, and Anthropic with a single line of code. Features include OpenTelemetry-native SDKs, an extensible evaluation framework with CI/CD support, SQL access to traces and metrics, and a visual debugging timeline for agent reasoning and actions.

Braintrust is an AI observability and evaluation platform for tracing LLM applications, building datasets, running prompt/model experiments, scoring outputs and turning production feedback into regression tests. It fits teams that need repeatable quality gates for AI releases rather than one-off prompt demos.