Helicone pricing
How Helicone charges, what to know before you commit, and what you'd pay at your usage — next to what the alternatives would cost for the same thing.
How it charges
Checked 2026-10-03 on www.helicone.ai ↗ · USD, list pricesIn short
Free for 10,000 requests a month; Pro is $79 per month with 10,000 requests included, then graduated per-request rates from $0.0007 down to $0.00002.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Cheapest paid plan
- $79/mo
- Side project
- $0/mo Hobby
- Growing
- $116/mo Pro
- Scaling
- $315/mo Pro
What the model leaves out
Billed per logged request (treated as a trace). Graduated rates on Pro ($79/mo, 10k included) — $0.0007 to 30k, $0.00035 to 90k, $0.000175 to 250k, $0.0000875 to 800k, $0.00004375 to 2.5M, $0.00002 beyond. Team ($799/mo) has the same rates and more features. Storage beyond 1 GB is billed separately.
Before you commit
- Helicone bills per logged request, and storage beyond 1 GB is billed separately in tiers starting at $3.25 per GB.
- On Hobby, requests past 10,000 keep being logged, but you have to upgrade to Pro to see them.
- Hobby is limited to 1 seat and 7 days of retention; Pro keeps 1 month.
- Ingestion is rate-limited: 10 logs/min on Hobby, 1,000 on Pro.
| Plan | Monthly fee | Traces per month |
|---|---|---|
| Hobby | Free | 10k traces includedup to 10k traces |
| Pro | $79/mo | 10k traces includedthen $0.7 per 1,000 traces |
| ↳ next tier | 30k traces includedthen $0.35 per 1,000 traces | |
| ↳ next tier | 90k traces includedthen $0.175 per 1,000 traces | |
| ↳ next tier | 250k traces includedthen $0.0875 per 1,000 traces | |
| ↳ next tier | 800k traces includedthen $0.04375 per 1,000 traces | |
| ↳ next tier | 2.5M traces includedthen $0.02 per 1,000 traces |
What you'd pay
Pro$114 plan + 10k traces × $0.175 per 1,000 traces$116/moThe same usage elsewhere
Cost as you grow
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