Pick Helicone if
teams who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table.
Read the Helicone pageHelicone vs Traceloop
Our take
Pick Helicone if you're on a team who will change one baseURL and then live in the request table. Pick Traceloop if you're on a team who will stay on Free at $0 (50k spans, 5 seats, 24-hour retention) while they open a first Trace details, then Enterprise when they need >50k spans or on-prem. 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
Traceloop OTel LLM spans at $0 / 50k
Free plan
Helicone $0 · 10,000 requests / month. 1 GB storage. 1 seat, 1 organization
Traceloop $0 · /month. Up to 50k spans / month. Up to 5 seats. 24-hour retention. Monitoring + evaluation dashboards. CI/CD. Prompt management
Lowest paid
Helicone Pro $79/mo
Traceloop Not published by the vendor
Coding agent
Helicone Agent + Tab inside the editor
Traceloop
Runs where
Helicone Hosted
Traceloop Local or hosted
Watch out
Helicone $79 is the Pro platform fee, not a cap
Traceloop Free retention is 24 hours
Last checked
Helicone 2026-10-22 · helicone.ai/pricing
Traceloop 2026-10-27 · traceloop.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Traceloop if
teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50k spans, 5 seats, 24-hour retention) while they open a first Trace details, then Enterprise when they need >50k spans or on-prem.
Read the Traceloop page