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Helicone vs Weights & Biases
Helicone or Weights & Biases? 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: Self-hosted, API, Official SDKs, Traces and evaluates
- Only Helicone states: Choice of models
- Only Weights & Biases states: Command line, Runs models for you, Builds agents and workflows
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.
Weights & Biases
AI developer platform for tracking experiments, managing models and datasets, and evaluating and monitoring AI applications.
Plans
Free
Free
- AI application evaluations
- AI application tracing
- AI application scorers
- AI model experiment tracking
- AI assets registry & lineage tracking
- Community Support
Pro
- Starts at $60/month, billed monthly
- Unlimited teams for collaboration
- Team-based access controls
- Service Accounts
- Priority email & chat support
- CI/CD automations
- Slack and email alerts
Enterprise
Price on request
- Single tenant option with choice of region
- HIPAA compliant option
- Secure private connectivity
- Customer-managed encryption key
- Single Sign On
- Automated user provisioning
Personal
Free
- 1 user seat
- Experiment tracking
- Registry & lineage tracking
- Run a W&B server locally on any machine with Docker and Python installed
- For personal projects only. Corporate use is not allowed.
Advanced Enterprise
Price on request
- Flexible deployment options
- HIPAA compliant option
- Secure private connectivity
- Customer-managed encryption key
- Single Sign On
- Automated user provisioning
Free forever for academic research
Free
- All the product features included on Pro
- Unlimited tracked hours
- 200GB of cloud storage
- Up to 25GB/mo of Weave data ingestion
- Up to 100 seats
- Additional cloud storage can be purchased for $0.03 per GB, billed monthly
Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.
Capabilities
- Command line — “You can then use the command line to start the server.” source
- Self-hosted — “Self-hosting allows you to run Weights & Biases on your own infrastructure, giving you full control over your data and privacy.” source
- API — “Each inference API has different costs for input and output tokens.” source
- Official SDKs — “Core | Reports | Automations | SDK” source
- Runs models for you — “Inference Access and explore hosted AI models” source
- Builds agents and workflows — “W&B Weave: Build agentic AI applications” source
- Traces and evaluates — “Monitor and analyze the performance of your GenAI models during development and in production, capturing inputs, outputs, and metadata for each inference.” source
Security
- SOC 2 Type II — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- SOC 2 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- ISO 27001 — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source
- HIPAA — “We are certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO/IEC 27017:2015, and ISO/IEC 27018:2019, and remain compliant with SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA standards.” source