Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs SigNoz
Our take
Pick Helicone if teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick SigNoz if platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included usage and no cluster to run. Skip Helicone if orgs that already standardized on LangSmith and will not move the proxy (LangSmith).
Best for
Helicone See the call and route the next one
SigNoz APM you start at $0 OSS or $49 Cloud
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
SigNoz $0 · self-host. You run the cluster, storage, upgrades, and backups. Community Slack. No Teams chat / email support
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
SigNoz Enterprise $4/mo
Next step up
Helicone
SigNoz Startup program $19/mo
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
SigNoz
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
SigNoz Local; you host it
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
SigNoz Cloud has a $49 floor
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
SigNoz 2026-10-22 · signoz.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick SigNoz if
platform teams who will stay on Community Edition $0 (self-host, no card) while they ship a first OTel pipeline, then buy Cloud Teams at $49/month when they want $49 of included usage and no cluster to run.
Read the SigNoz page