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Stay if you ship an API app.
Helicone wins at request logs. 1AIControl wins at pairing devices to a logged-in official client and showing remaining quota without wrapping the vendor.
Stay if this is you. Teams shipping an app that already talks to model APIs and need request-level traces.
You still need a proxy or SDK hook
Helicone sits on the HTTP path. We refuse that path for consumer seats.
No MCP or skills matrix
Observability does not push the same skill folder onto five machines.
If you do switch
- Local SQLite trace, hashed prompts by default.
- Quota as remaining seats, not only cost charts.
- Advisor card from your own history, once there are 30 days of data.