Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs OpenLIT
Our take
Pick Helicone if you're on a team who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick OpenLIT if you're on a team who will self-host OpenLIT at $0 (you bring compute) — not Langfuse first unless they want that Cloud tile. 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
OpenLIT Apache OTel traces you run yourself
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
OpenLIT $0 · docker / local. You bring machines
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
OpenLIT Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
OpenLIT
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
OpenLIT Local or hosted
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
OpenLIT $0 is the license, not your cluster
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
OpenLIT 2026-10-27 · docs.openlit.io
Which one, then?
Pick OpenLIT if
teams who will self-host OpenLIT at $0 (you bring compute) — not Langfuse first unless they want that Cloud tile.
Read the OpenLIT page