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Helicone vs LiteLLM

Fees, free tiers and features, from each gateway's own pages.

Markup on tokens
0%
0%
Bring your own key
Yes, 0% fee
Yes, 0% fee
Free tier
Hobby: 10,000 free requests, 1 GB storage
Open source gateway free to self-host
Entry paid plan
Pro, $79/mo
Enterprise
Self-host
Yes
Yes
Open source
Yes (Apache 2.0)
Yes (MIT (enterprise features under LiteLLM Commercial License))
Fallbacks
Load balancing
Caching
Guardrails
Observability
Rate limits
Budgets
Prompts
OpenAI-compatible
Bring your own key
Data residency
Private networking

Monthly cost, 100M in and 20M out

  • Claude Sonnet 5$400.00$400.00
  • GPT-6 Sol$400.00$400.00
  • Gemini 3.8 Flash$150.00$150.00
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$27.00$27.00

Pricing as read from each gateway's own pages on the date shown; your contract may differ. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.

Weekly: LLM API list prices that changed, Thursday mornings.