Comparison
Focxle vs Helicone
Helicone is a proxy that logs and analyses your LLM calls. Focxle runs inside your process and reports per-agent cost across every vendor, with no proxy and no account.
What Helicone is
Helicone is an LLM observability platform. The usual setup routes your requests through their gateway by changing your client's base URL, which lets them log the full request and response, cache, retry and analyse.
The difference that matters
Helicone sits in front of your traffic. Focxle sits inside your process. That single structural choice decides almost everything else about the two.
Where Helicone is the better choice
Said first and in full, because a comparison that never concedes anything is marketing, and you would be right to stop reading.
- Full request and response logging, which we deliberately never see and could not offer.
- Caching, retries and rate limiting, which are only possible for something in the request path.
- A hosted dashboard your whole team can open, with no code required after setup.
- Prompt-level analysis and evaluation, an entirely different job from cost accounting.
Where we are
- No proxy, so nothing new sits on your live path and nobody else holds your prompts.
- One number per agent across model vendors AND ordinary HTTP APIs. Search, scraping and embedding calls are real money and a proxy for LLM traffic does not see them.
- Works with no account and no network calls at all, so the first run is instant and offline.
- Zero dependencies, so nothing enters your environment and nothing conflicts with your pins.
Honestly
If you want to inspect prompts, cache responses and give a team a dashboard, Helicone does things we do not. If you want to know what each agent costs across everything it touches, without routing production traffic through a third party, that is what we do.
pip install focxle
import focxle
focxle.init()Free forever to watch, no account, and it takes about a minute to find out whether the number surprises you.
Other comparisons