Helicone
AI & ML Free key (no card)
AuthenticationFree key (no card)
Rate limit10,000 requests/month on the free Hobby plan.
Documentation: docs.helicone.ai ยท Checked Sep 18, 2026
About
Helicone logs every LLM request your agent makes with cost, latency, and caching through a one-line proxy change, and its AI gateway routes to 100+ models. The Hobby plan is free for 10,000 requests a month with 1 GB of storage, no card required, and the platform is open source.
Details
Free to start. You may need a free key, but no credit card.
Auth: Free key (no card)
Rate limit: 10,000 requests/month on the free Hobby plan.
Verified: 2026-09-18
Best for: developer
Setup
- Sign up at helicone.ai and copy your API key.
- Point your OpenAI base URL at oai.helicone.ai and add the Helicone-Auth header.
- Every request is now logged with cost and latency in your dashboard.
Example
POST https://oai.helicone.ai/v1/chat/completions --header "Helicone-Auth: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"Use cases
- LLM cost tracking
- Prompt debugging
- Multi-model routing