Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs Langfuse
Our take
Pick Helicone if teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick Langfuse if teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI. Skip Helicone if orgs that already standardized on LangSmith and will not move the proxy (LangSmith). Skip Langfuse if people who only want a gateway (LiteLLM) or a framework (LangChain) without an observability SKU.
Best for
Helicone See the call and route the next one
Langfuse Debug and cost-track generations
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
Langfuse $0 · for the MIT core. ee/ is not the community license
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
Langfuse Enterprise $2/mo
Next step up
Helicone
Langfuse Core $29/mo
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
Langfuse
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
Langfuse Local or hosted
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
Langfuse Hobby is two users and 30-day retention
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
Langfuse 2026-10-19 · langfuse.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Langfuse if
teams shipping LLM apps who need traces and a cost tile, not another chat UI.
Read the Langfuse page