Helicone is in maintenance mode. So I built the lightweight alternative I wanted.
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Key Points
- Helicone, previously used to track LLM API costs, has entered maintenance mode after Mintlify’s acquisition, leaving many organizations searching for alternatives.
- Langfuse users considering self-hosting face a heavier operational burden (running ClickHouse, Postgres, Redis, and S3) compared with simpler local tooling.
- The article introduces TokenWatch, a lightweight, developer-friendly cost and usage monitoring tool that tracks streaming calls and reports model, tokens, cost, latency, and errors.
- TokenWatch is designed to avoid becoming a reliability bottleneck by not proxying requests, and it supports a budget enforcement “kill-switch” (webhook alerts at 80% and hard stops via BudgetExceededError at 100%).
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