Helicone — Free Plan for Startups

Deal Highlights

Helicone — Open-Source LLM Observability in One Line of Code

Helicone is an open-source observability platform for LLM applications that works as a proxy — change your API base URL to Helicone and instantly get logging, caching, rate limiting, and cost tracking for every AI call your application makes.

One Line Integration

Most LLM observability tools require SDK installation, function wrapping, and code changes. Helicone works differently — replace your OpenAI base URL with Helicone and every request is automatically logged, cached, and tracked. Zero code changes beyond the URL.

What You Get

Request and response logging for every LLM call. Cost tracking by model, user, and feature. Latency monitoring. Token usage analytics. Caching to reduce duplicate API calls and save money. Rate limiting to control spending. Custom properties for segmenting usage.

Cost Control

LLM costs can spiral out of control. Helicone shows exactly where your AI budget goes — which features, users, and prompts consume the most tokens. Set rate limits and budgets per user or feature to prevent surprise bills.

Helicone vs Langfuse

Langfuse provides deeper tracing through complex AI pipelines with prompt management. Helicone is simpler — proxy-based with zero-code setup. Langfuse is better for complex AI systems. Helicone is better for quick, low-effort observability.

Getting Started

1. Sign up through SaaSOffers for a free plan
2. Change your OpenAI base URL to Helicone
3. Start seeing logs, costs, and analytics immediately
4. Add caching and rate limiting as needed

Pricing

Free plan includes 100K requests per month. Growth at $20/month adds 1M requests and advanced features. Enterprise plans offer unlimited requests and self-hosting.

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