Helicone: pricing and features
by Helicone
Prices and features checked 2026-10-17 on the vendor's own pages. Anything we could not confirm says “not verified”.
What is Helicone? Open-source LLM observability platform and gateway: request logging, sessions, prompts, scores, datasets, caching and fallbacks. Cloud plans charge a monthly fee plus usage.
Best for: Teams that want request logging, cost tracking and a gateway first, with scores and datasets on top.
Pricing
- Free tier
- Hobby: 10,000 requests/month, 1 GB storage, 1 seat, 7-day retention [source, checked 2026-10-17]
- Entry paid price
- Pro $79/month plus usage-based pricing (usage rates are shown only via a calculator, not verified) [source, checked 2026-10-17]
- What you pay for (meter)
- Requests and storage (GB) beyond the free allowance [source]
- Licence
- Apache-2.0 [source]
- Self-hosting
- Docker or Kubernetes self-hosting [source]
- Data retention
- 7 days (Hobby), 1 month (Pro), 3 months (Team) [source]
Features
| OpenTelemetry | Async logging through OpenLLMetry [source] |
|---|---|
| CI gating | GitHub Actions guide [source] |
| LLM-as-judge | Scores docs show an LLM-as-judge example [source] |
| Human annotation | not verified |
| Prompt management | Prompt versioning and deployment [source] |
| Dataset versioning | not verified |
| SOC 2 / HIPAA | SOC 2 and HIPAA on Team ($799/month) [source] |
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