Cloudflare AI Gateway vs Helicone vs Langfuse vs OpenRouter
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Cloudflare AI Gateway
Free LLM proxy: caching, spend limits, logging across providers
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Helicone
LLM observability via drop-in proxy
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Langfuse
Open-source LLM observability and analytics
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.7 / 10 | 7.6 / 10 | 8.4 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | — | — | — | — |
| Paid from | — | — | — | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Users | — | — | — | — |
| Founded | 2024 | 2023 | 2023 | — |
| Maker | — | — | — | — |
| Verdict | AI Gateway is Cloudflare doing what Cloudflare does best: put a fast, free layer of caching, logging and rate limiting in front of a category of traffic — this time LLM API calls instead of HTTP. Point your app at one en... |
Helicone is a developer-focused observability platform for LLM apps, providing request logging, tracing, cost and latency tracking, caching, and prompt management with a one-line proxy or async integration. It is open-so... |
Langfuse is a leading open-source LLM observability platform covering tracing, prompt management, evaluations, cost tracking and analytics, with framework-agnostic SDKs that work well alongside LangChain, LlamaIndex or r... |
OpenRouter solved a real headache: instead of holding a dozen provider keys and reconciling a dozen invoices, you point one OpenAI-compatible endpoint at around 400 models and get automatic fallback when a provider choke... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.