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Portkey vs Helicone

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

Markup on tokens
Not published
0%
Bring your own key
Yes, fee not stated
Yes, 0% fee
Free tier
Developer: Free Forever, 10k recorded logs per month
Hobby: 10,000 free requests, 1 GB storage
Entry paid plan
Production, $49/mo
Pro, $79/mo
Self-host
Yes
Yes
Open source
Yes (MIT (gateway))
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 5n/a$400.00
  • GPT-6 Soln/a$400.00
  • Gemini 3.8 Flashn/a$150.00
  • DeepSeek V4.1 Flashn/a$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.