Hosted platforms - verified October 18, 2026

Helicone

Helicone is listed under hosted platforms. Helicone's pricing page carries a "Helicone Joins Mintlify" banner. We record the banner text only. No date given. Its first listed price, in its own words: Hobby: free (plan price). Stated or listed on its pages: tracing, datasets, prompt management and a playground. Read from the vendor's own pages on October 18, 2026.

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What changed

Joins MintlifyHelicone
Helicone's pricing page carries a "Helicone Joins Mintlify" banner. We record the banner text only. No date given.
“Helicone Joins Mintlify”
helicone.ai

Status, as we read it

Generally available (inferred)inferred

No page we read labels this product GA or beta. It is sold or downloadable without a beta label, so we read it as generally available.

Ownership, name or terms changes, as recorded: Site banner: Helicone joins Mintlify (date not stated)
“Helicone Joins Mintlify”
helicone.ai

How Helicone charges

Every price line Helicone states, in its own words and units, with the quote. Nothing is converted.

5 price lines for Helicone, in the vendor's own words and units
Price, in the vendor's words	Unit	Quote and source
Hobby: free	plan price	“Hobby Free Kickstart your AI project.” helicone.ai
Pro: $79 per month	plan price per month	“Pro POPULAR $79 per month” helicone.ai
Team: $799 per month	plan price per month	“Team BEST VALUE $799 per month” helicone.ai
Paid plans: usage-based pricing applies above included requests and storage	usage-based	“10K free + usage-based” helicone.ai
Enterprise: contact us	plan price	“Enterprise Contact us Custom-built packages.” helicone.ai

Free tier and retention

Free tier: Hobby: 10,000 free requests, 1 GB storage, 1 seatinferred
Plan from table layout (Hobby): the quote does not name it.
“10,000 free requests 1 GB storage 1 seat, 1 organization”
helicone.ai
Data retention: Hobby 7 days; Pro 1 month; Team 3 months; Enterprise foreverinferred
Plan from table layout (Enterprise, Hobby, Pro, Team): the quote does not name it.
“Retention 7 days 1 month 3 months Forever”
helicone.ai

Tracing and evaluation

OpenTelemetry / OTLP ingest: Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page or README
Tracing: Request monitoring, 10,000/mo
“Monitoring Requests 10,000/mo”
helicone.ai
Evals (LLM-as-a-judge): Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page or README
Online evals: Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page or README
Datasets: Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“Scores Datasets Webhooks”
helicone.ai

Prompts, playground and cost

Prompt management: Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“Prompts & Testing Playground Prompts”
helicone.ai
Playground: Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“Prompts & Testing Playground”
helicone.ai
Cost tracking: Not stated
Not stated as a feature label on the pricing page

Self-hosting, license and compliance

Self-hosting: Yes
“Helicone is simple to self-host and update.”
raw.githubusercontent.com
Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“On-prem deployment”
helicone.ai
License: Apache 2.0
“Helicone is licensed under the Apache v2.0 License.”
raw.githubusercontent.com
SOC 2 (as listed): Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“SOC-2 & HIPAA compliance”
helicone.ai
HIPAA (as listed): Listed on pricing page
The pricing table marks plans with icons, so this is not a claim about which plan includes it.
“SOC-2 & HIPAA compliance”
helicone.ai
Regions: Not stated
Not stated on the pricing page

SDKs and integrations

SDKs: Not stated
Not stated as a list on the pages reviewed
Integrations: Not stated
No integration count stated on the pricing page or README

Vendor claims

Scale, speed and cost statements as Helicone makes them. Vendor-stated, not measured.

Vendor-stated: Not stated
None recorded

FAQ

How much does Helicone cost?

In Helicone's own terms: Hobby: free (plan price); Pro: $79 per month (plan price per month); Team: $799 per month (plan price per month); Paid plans: usage-based pricing applies above included requests and storage (usage-based); Enterprise: contact us (plan price). As of October 18, 2026; prices are not converted.

Does Helicone accept OpenTelemetry traces?

Not stated. Not stated on the pricing page or README.

Can I self-host Helicone?

Per the vendor: "Helicone is simple to self-host and update." License: Apache 2.0.

What changed at Helicone?

Helicone's pricing page carries a "Helicone Joins Mintlify" banner. We record the banner text only. No date given.

Sources

Source: docs.helicone.ai
Source: helicone.ai/pricing
Source: raw.githubusercontent.com/Helicone/helicone/HEAD/README.md
Source: github.com/Helicone/helicone/blob/main/LICENSE

Last verified 2026-10-18 from each vendor's own pricing pages, docs, READMEs and license files; every quote was string-matched against the page that day. This is not a ranking. Prices are shown in the vendor's own unit and change without notice, so check the linked source before you commit.

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