Helicone vs Aster

A side-by-side comparison built from both listings. Blank cells mean the company has not given that detail; we never guess.

Helicone compared with Aster
Detail	Helicone	Aster
What it does	AI Gateway & LLM Observability	Intelligent Auto Routing
Stage	Not given	Growing
Founded	Not given	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	freemium	usage-based
Pricing	Not given	aster-work: $0.40 input / $0.80 output per million tokens. aster-code: $0.80 input / $1.60 output per million tokens. No subscription or seat fees. Prepaid credits start at $5 with no expiry. Routing included in product rates.
Key features	Request routing across multiple LLM providers Real-time monitoring and analytics dashboard Prompt management and playground Rate limiting and alerts Automatic fallbacks for LLM requests Response caching User tracking and sessions HQL query language Webhooks integration Data export capabilities	Task-aware model routing Curated model collection
What makes it different	Works with multiple LLM providers unlike competitors focused on single ecosystems Open-source platform More cost-effective scaling than competitors Simple integration with single line of code	Reinforcement learning router trained on real task data 97.5% lower token cost vs frontier models Same product name regardless of underlying model
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	73 no change since last check	Not checked yet no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	26	0
Citation Flow (Majestic)	46	11
Referring domains (Majestic)	2986	23

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