Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs Langtrace
Our take
Pick Helicone if you're on a team who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick Langtrace if you're on a team who will stay on Starter at $0 (10k spans, 1 user) or self-host, then Growth at $39/user/month when they need cloud evals and collaboration. Skip Helicone if you're orgs that already standardized on LangSmith and will not move the proxy (LangSmith).
Best for
Helicone See the call and route the next one
Langtrace See the chain as OTel spans at a public $
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
Langtrace $0 · forever. 1 user. Up to 10k spans / month. Prompt management and evaluations
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
Langtrace Growth $39/user/mo
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
Langtrace
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
Langtrace
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
Langtrace Starter is 1 user and 10k spans
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
Langtrace 2026-10-27 · docs.langtrace.ai/introduction
Which one, then?
Pick Langtrace if
teams who will stay on Starter at $0 (10k spans, 1 user) or self-host, then Growth at $39/user/month when they need cloud evals and collaboration.
Read the Langtrace page