Helicone model pricing.
prices as of · 47 models · 47 prices
Sells many makers' models through one API and one bill.
Helicone is a router selling 47 models, from $0.11 per million tokens for Llama 3.1 8B Instruct, read on 16 Sept 2026.
Kind of provider
Router
home country not stated
Where it runs
not stated
no regions published
How you pay
not stated
no payment terms published
Free tier
none published
nothing given away
Where Helicone's prices land, and why
Helicone publishes 47 prices we can compare, and 15 of them are below the list price for that model. 11 of those have a published reason behind them, so they rank like any other price. The other 2 sit below list on models whose weights are closed, with nothing published to account for the gap, so they are listed here in full and ranked nowhere on the site. Nobody here has read its terms, legal entity and data policy yet, so treat what it says about itself as its own claim.
Helicone does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
not yet checked: terms, legal entity and data policy
Models to start with
all 47 prices ↓- gpt-oss-120bOpenAI · 131k context · 68 providers sell it$0.04 / $0.16same as list
- DeepSeek V3.2DeepSeek · 164k context · 54 providers sell it$0.27 / $0.412% under list
- Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic · 200k context · 48 providers sell it$1 / $5same as list
- Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMeta · 128k context · 46 providers sell it$0.13 / $0.3926% above list
- gpt-oss-20bOpenAI · 131k context · 43 providers sell it$0.05 / $0.2059% above list
Everything Helicone sells, against the list price
Cheapest first inside each group. The share is this row against the price the lab that trained the model charges.
Cheaper, and we know why
11 pricesBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
Meta · 131k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.02 / $0.05in / out per M
0.48×of list price
- Mistral Small 3.2
Mistral AI · 128k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.07 / $0.20in / out per M
0.71×of list price
- Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507
Alibaba Cloud · 262k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.08 / $0.29in / out per M
0.58×of list price
- Qwen3-Coder 30B-A3B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud · 262k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.10 / $0.30in / out per M
0.17×of list price
$0.27 / $0.41in / out per M
0.98×of list price
- Qwen3 32B
Alibaba Cloud · 131k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.29 / $0.59in / out per M
0.30×of list price
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud · 131k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.14 / $1.40in / out per M
0.52×of list price
- Qwen3-VL 235B-A22B
Alibaba Cloud · 131k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.30 / $1.50in / out per M
0.49×of list price
- GLM-4.6
Z.ai · 205k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.45 / $1.50in / out per M
0.71×of list price
- Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI · 262k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.48 / $2in / out per M
0.80×of list price
- Kimi K2 0905
Moonshot AI · 262k context
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.50 / $2in / out per M
0.81×of list price
Same price as the maker
34 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
0.83×of list price
$0.04 / $0.16in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.20in / out per M
1.59×of list price
$0.05 / $0.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.10 / $0.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.13 / $0.39in / out per M
1.26×of list price
$0.15 / $0.60in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.27 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $1.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $2in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.25 / $2in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.40 / $1.60in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.30 / $2.50in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.30 / $2.90in / out per M
1.27×of list price
$1 / $1in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.10 / $4.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.10 / $4.40in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1 / $5in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $6in / out per M
4.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$1.25 / $10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$2 / $8in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$3 / $15in / out per M
1.00×of list price
showing the 30 cheapest of 34 · every row in the open dataset
Cheaper, and nobody says why
2 prices · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
- R1 Distill Llama 70B
DeepSeek · 8k context
0.04× the list price, from one source and far below what hosting the weights costs. Listed until a second source agrees.
$0.03 / $0.13in / out per M
0.07×of list price
- GPT-4o
OpenAI · 128k context
0.50× OpenAI's list price on a closed model, and nobody says why. Listed, never ranked.
$2.50 / $10in / out per M
0.58×of list price
Frequently asked
- What is Helicone?
- Sells many makers' models through one API and one bill. It sells 47 of the models we track.
- Is Helicone cheaper than buying from the maker?
- 15 of its 47 prices sit below the list price for the model, and 11 of those have a published reason behind them, so they can lead a ranking. 2 are listed and never ranked.
- Does Helicone train on what you send it?
- Helicone does not say whether it trains on what you send it. It does not say how long it keeps requests.
- How current are these Helicone prices?
- They come from the public catalogs we read, last read 16 Sept 2026. Prices exclude tax.