OpenRouter vs Helicone
Fees, free tiers and features, from each gateway's own pages.
- Markup on tokens
- 5.5%
- 0%
- Bring your own key
- Yes, 5% fee
- Yes, 0% fee
- Free tier
- Free plan: 25+ free models, 4 free providers; 50 free-model requests per day without purchased credits, 1000 per day with at least $10 in credits
- Hobby: 10,000 free requests, 1 GB storage
- Entry paid plan
- Standard (pay-as-you-go)
- Pro, $79/mo
- Self-host
- No
- Yes
- Open source
- No
- Yes (Apache 2.0)
- 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$422.00$400.00
GPT-6 Sol$422.00$400.00
Gemini 3.8 Flash$158.25$150.00
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$28.48$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.