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Helicone vs Opik
Helicone or Opik? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.
In short
- Both: Choice of models, API, Official SDKs, Traces and evaluates
- Only Helicone states: Self-hosted
- Only Opik states: Agent that edits files, Knows the whole codebase
Helicone
Helicone routes, monitors, debugs, and analyzes AI applications through an open-source gateway and observability platform.
Plans
Hobby
Free
- 10,000 free requests
- 1 GB storage
- 1 seat, 1 organization
Pro
- $79 per month
- Everything in Hobby
- Unlimited seats
- Alerts & reports
- HQL (Query Language)
Team
- $799 per month
- Everything in Pro
- 5 organizations
- SOC-2 & HIPAA compliance
- Dedicated Slack channel
Enterprise
Price on request
- Everything in Team
- Custom MSA
- SAML SSO
- On-prem deployment
- Bulk cloud discounts
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Choice of models — “Request Routing : Route by model, cost, or custom rules” source
- Self-hosted — “Now you can deploy our powerful observability platform directly within your own infrastructure with a single Docker command.” source
- API — “With this setup, any calls to the OpenAI Responses API will be automatically logged and monitored by Helicone.” source
- Official SDKs — “We’re thrilled to announce that we now have a Go SDK for Helicone’s Helpers Package .” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Built-in Observability : Full integration with Helicone’s analytics” source
Latest updates
- Claude Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 4.5 now support 1M context window
Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 4.5 models on the AI Gateway now support a 1M token context window by default across Anthropic API, AWS Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.
- Control Reasoning Effort in Playground and better feedback on thinking models
Added the reasoning effort parameter, a minimal option, existing reasoning levels, and visual reasoning display when available.
- OpenAI GPT-5 Models Pricing and Playground Support
Added pricing for GPT-5, GPT-5-Mini, GPT-5-Nano, and GPT-5-Chat-Latest models across multiple providers.
Opik
Opik is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, testing, and monitoring LLM applications and AI agents.
Plans
Open Source
Free
- Full AI observability & agent testing feature set
- True OSS: same codebase as the hosted versions
- Agent tracing & analysis
- Test Suites & assertions
- Agent Playground
Free Cloud
Free
- Up to 10 team members
- 25k spans per month
- 60-day data retention
- Agent tracing & analysis
- Test Suites & assertions
- Agent Playground
Pro Cloud
- $19 Per month
- Up to 50 team members
- 100k spans per month
- 60-day data retention
- Customizable monthly span limits
- Customizable data retention periods
Enterprise
Price on request
- Unlimited team members
- Custom usage plans
- Flexible deployments
- Service accounts and view-only users
- Single sign-on
- Dedicated support and SLAs
Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Agent that edits files — “Opik’s powerful coding assistant analyzes your traces, suggests fixes, and implements them in your development code — with built-in version control and regression testing.” source
- Knows the whole codebase — “Configure it to let Ollie read your agent codebase and write fixes directly to it.” source
- Choice of models — “If you’re not ready to log traces yet, we recommend trying out the prompt playground to experiment with user prompts and system prompts and compare models side by side, with no setup steps required.” source
- API — “Opik’s REST API and complete Python client can be used with both the Open-Source platform and Opik Cloud” source
- Official SDKs — “SDKs (Python, TypeScript)” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Opik logs every step your agent takes, from user interactions to context retrieval and tool calls — with automated eval workflows to find and fix errors across development, testing, and production.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- SOC 2 — “SOC 2 Type 2” source
- ISO 27001 — “ISO/IEC 27001:2022” source
Latest updates
- 2.2.81-6780 (2.2.81-6780)
Provision the extended free-form SQL ClickHouse user.
- 2.2.80 (2.2.80)
- 2.2.79 (2.2.79)