Helicone has launched a $79/month Pro plan for its LLM observability stack and AI gateway, targeting teams needing to track costs and failures in production. The plan includes unlimited seats, alerts, and reports, with a 7-day free trial.
TL;DR
- Helicone introduces a Pro plan at $79/month, adding alerts, reports, and unlimited seats to its LLM observability and gateway features.
- The plan is designed for teams shipping production LLM apps who need to monitor costs and failures.
- Helicone also offers a free Hobby tier and a Team plan at $799/month, with discounts for startups and students.
What happened
Helicone, a YC-backed startup, has launched a Pro plan priced at $79/month after a 7-day trial. The plan includes unlimited seats, alerts, reports, and HQL (Helicone Query Language) for queryable logs, with 10,000 free requests per month and usage-based pricing thereafter. The Hobby tier remains free, offering 10,000 requests per month, 1 GB, 1 seat, and 7-day retention. A Team plan is also available at $799/month, including 5 organizations, SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance, a Slack channel, and 3-month retention. Enterprise plans are available with a quote, offering features like SSO and on-prem deployment.
Why it matters
The Pro plan is ideal for teams shipping production LLM apps who need to see which calls fail and what they cost. The gateway with cache and fallbacks can help optimize performance and reduce costs. The free Hobby tier allows teams to test the platform before committing to a paid plan. The Team plan is suitable for organizations with compliance requirements, while the Enterprise plan offers additional security and deployment options.
Key facts
- Helicone's Pro plan is priced at $79/month after a 7-day trial.
- The Hobby tier is free, offering 10,000 requests per month, 1 GB, 1 seat, and 7-day retention.
- The Team plan is priced at $799/month, including 5 organizations, SOC 2 / HIPAA compliance, a Slack channel, and 3-month retention.
- Enterprise plans are available with a quote, offering features like SSO and on-prem deployment.
- Startups under two years and $5M funding get 50% off in the first year; students can be free.
- Helicone offers a one-line proxy setup, request, cost, and latency traces, and a gateway with cache and fallbacks.
- The platform is available as a cloud service or via Docker for self-hosting.
- Helicone has a 4.4/5 star rating on Quasa.io.
Context
Helicone is part of a growing ecosystem of tools designed to help developers build, deploy, and monitor LLM applications. As the use of LLMs in production environments increases, the need for observability and cost management tools becomes more critical. Helicone's offering is positioned to compete with other LLM observability and gateway solutions, such as LangSmith and Portkey.