Helicone vs Cloudflare AI Gateway
One of fourteen models named Helicone first on the direct prompt; zero named Cloudflare AI Gateway. Helicone was named by twelve of the fourteen models and Cloudflare AI Gateway by fourteen and Helicone carries 27 labels and Cloudflare AI Gateway 29, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in one category this edition.
Named in two categories this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the LLM gateways and observability page.
By framing
HeliconeFirst choices, of fourteen modelsCloudflare AI Gateway
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Helicone and Cloudflare AI Gateway were named in the same answer twenty-four times, of the 80 answers naming Helicone and the 78 naming Cloudflare AI Gateway. In those answers Cloudflare AI Gateway took the first choice two times and Helicone two.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | |||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | |||||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | |||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | ||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | |||
| Kimi K2 | | | | |||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | |||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | ||||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | | ||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | |
Helicone Cloudflare AI Gateway first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Helicone on the left and Cloudflare AI Gateway on the right.The direct prompt
Helicone first, Cloudflare AI Gateway an alternative
1 of 14 modelsCloudflare AI Gateway was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
6 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
7 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Cloudflare AI Gateway7%#4 of 7Helicone5%#5 of 7Helicone6%#4 of 8Cloudflare AI Gateway2%#6 of 8Helicone2%#5 of 8Cloudflare AI Gateway0%#7 of 8What the models said about Helicone
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.
“What I'd Avoid... Helicone | In maintenance mode since Mintlify acquisition” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“now in maintenance mode. Avoid for new builds.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · paraphrase prompt · hard negative
“now maintenance mode post-2026 acquisition—no new signups, but OSS viable ... Hosted future uncertain; basic evals.” Grok 4.1 Fast · paraphrase prompt · soft negative
“Choose Helicone if you need to debug why a specific LLM chain is failing, require the absolute lowest latency” Qwen 3.7 Flash · comparative prompt · first choice
“Start with Helicone. It is the most "agile" tool for a mid-sized B2B company.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Portkey.ai or Helicone” MiniMax M2.5 · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Cloudflare AI Gateway
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of three in this category shown.
“Insanely fast, great for basic caching and logging, but lacks deep enterprise budgeting/RBAC controls.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · scale prompt · soft negative
“The safest bets are Cloudflare AI Gateway for hosted, or Kong self-hosted for enterprise compliance.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · first choice
“For most budget-conscious companies, I'd start with Cloudflare AI Gateway” GPT-6 Luna · budget prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.