Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs Portkey
Our take
Pick Helicone if teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick Portkey if platform teams who will put a gateway in front of several providers and pay when logs exceed 10k. Skip Helicone if orgs that already standardized on LangSmith and will not move the proxy (LangSmith). Skip Portkey if solo builders who only need a request table and a $0 Hobby card (Helicone).
Best for
Helicone See the call and route the next one
Portkey Route and observe production LLM calls
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
Portkey $0 · for the gateway. Universal API, retries, routing, basic dashboard. Community support
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
Portkey Production $49/mo
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
Portkey
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
Portkey Local or hosted
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
Portkey Developer drops logs after 10k
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
Portkey 2026-10-22 · portkey.ai/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Portkey if
platform teams who will put a gateway in front of several providers and pay when logs exceed 10k.
Read the Portkey page