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FORG vs. Helicone

Helicone sits in the HTTP path between your app and the LLM API. FORG operates at the developer tool layer — no proxy, no latency, no single point of failure.

FORG

Governance for developer AI tool usage. Adapter-based — installs into the tools your developers already use.

  • No traffic in the critical path
  • Covers all IDE tools simultaneously
  • Budget and policy enforcement
  • Zero prompt storage architecture

Helicone

LLM observability proxy that routes your application's API calls through Helicone's infrastructure for logging and analysis.

  • Full request/response logging
  • Request caching
  • Prompt management
  • Application-level cost tracking
FeatureFORGHelicone
IDE adapter support (no proxy required)
Developer-side governance & controls
Real-time budget enforcement
Model allowlisting & org policy
Zero prompt storage
HTTP proxy for app-level tracing
Request caching
Prompt template management

No proxy. No latency. No risk.

FORG doesn't sit in the critical path. It observes behavior through the tools your developers already use.

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