Helicone – LLM Observability Stack & AI Gateway | Quasa.io

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Helicone is an LLM observability stack plus an AI gateway: log requests, traces, costs, prompts, and sessions; cache, rate-limit, and fall back across providers. Official pricing: Hobby—free, 10,000 requests/month, 1 GB, 1 seat, 7-day retention. Pro—$79/month after a 7-day trial—unlimited seats, alerts, reports, HQL, 10K free then usage-based, 1-month retention. Team—$799/month—5 orgs, SOC 2 / HIPAA, Slack channel, 3-month retention. Enterprise—quote (SSO, on-prem, forever retention). Startups under two years and $5M funding get 50% off year one; students can be free. It is not a spend cap and not LangSmith. Stay on Hobby until 10K requests break. Buy Pro when you need alerts. Buy Team only when compliance is on the contract.

𝐂𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗧𝗛𝗦
• One-line proxy setup
• Request, cost, and latency traces
• Gateway with cache and fallbacks
• Real free Hobby tier
• Open-source / self-host option  

𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥
Teams shipping production LLM apps who need to see which calls fail and what they cost.

𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦
• YC-backed; joined Mintlify
• HQL for queryable logs
• Usage calculator on the pricing page
• Startup and student discounts
• Cloud or Docker  

𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦
• Hobby retention is only 7 days
• Paid plans add usage on top of the seat fee
• Team jumps to $799
• Observability is not a budget lock
• Gateway is lighter than a full router like Portkey  

𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗗𝗜𝗖𝗧
4.4/5 stars. Log 10K on Hobby first. Upgrade to Pro when alerts and a month of history matter. Skip Team until legal asks for SOC 2. Earn 1 QUA reward by reviewing on Quasa.io too!

𝗚𝗘𝗧 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘𝗗: https://quasa.io/projects/helicone