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Helicone vs OpenRouter

HeliconeHEHeliconevsOpenRouterOPOpenRouter
HeliconeOpenRouter
9%
91%

Leading: OpenRouter (90.7%)

Statistics

MetricValue
Helicone wins18
OpenRouter wins176
Abstains (no tool)8
Other tool chosen788
Decisive cases194
Helicone win rate (unweighted)9.3%
95% CI5.9% - 14.2%
Helicone win rate (weighted)9.3%

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Model range breakdown

Model rangeTierHeliconeOpenRouterNoneOtherA rate
DeepSeek Flash 3.2–4.1Mid060480%
DeepSeek Pro 4–4 0813Frontier040500%
DeepSeek R1Frontier2414733%
DevstralMid050350%
Gemini Flash 2.5–3.8Small080460%
Gemini Pro 2.5–3.1 PreviewFrontier00054n/a
GLM 5 Turbo–5.3Frontier0160380%
GPT 5.4–6 AstraFrontier0130370%
GPT Coding 5.3 Codex–6.1 SolFrontier0160370%
GPT Mini 5.4 Mini–6 LunaMid0181350%
HaikuSmall16402180%
Kimi 2.5–3Frontier050370%
Llama MaverickFrontier00153n/a
Llama ScoutSmall00030n/a
MiMo Pro 2–2.6Frontier0110420%
MiniMax M 2.7–3Frontier080430%
Mistral SmallMid00538n/a
Opus 4.6–5.5Frontier0210330%
Qwen CoderMid0270200%
Sonnet 4.6–5.5Frontier0100440%

Per-prompt breakdown

PromptTierHeliconeOpenRouterNoneOtherA rate
ai-engineering-workflowBeginner01006660%
ai-agent-applicationBeginner03611340%
ai-agent-applicationIntermediate13211333%
ai-agent-applicationAdvanced74015464%
ai-engineering-workflowAdvanced91014690%
ai-engineering-workflowIntermediate13015525%