Helicone model pricing.
Prices checked
Helicone sells 58 prices on 57 models, from $0.02 per million tokens, checked .
Every model Helicone sells
- 1Runs it themselves
$0.02 in · $0.03 out
$0.02/M tokens - 2Runs it themselves
$0.02 in · $0.05 out
$0.03/M tokens - 3Same as maker
$0.05 in · $0.10 out
$0.06/M tokens - 4Runs it themselves
$0.04 in · $0.16 out
$0.07/M tokens - 5Costs more
$0.05 in · $0.20 out
$0.09/M tokens - 6Runs it themselves
$0.07 in · $0.20 out
$0.11/M tokens - 7Runs it themselves
$0.08 in · $0.29 out
$0.13/M tokens - 8Runs it themselves
$0.08 in · $0.30 out
$0.14/M tokens - 9Same as maker
$0.05 in · $0.40 out
$0.14/M tokens - 10Runs it themselves
$0.10 in · $0.30 out
$0.15/M tokens - 11Same as maker
$0.10 in · $0.40 out
$0.18/M tokens - 12Same as maker
$0.10 in · $0.40 out
$0.18/M tokens - 13Costs more
$0.13 in · $0.39 out
$0.20/M tokens - 14Same as maker
$0.15 in · $0.60 out
$0.26/M tokens - 15Runs it themselves
$0.15 in · $0.60 out
$0.26/M tokens - 16Same as maker
$0.20 in · $0.50 out
$0.28/M tokens - 17Same as maker
$0.20 in · $0.50 out
$0.28/M tokens - 18Resells
$0.27 in · $0.41 out
$0.30/M tokens - 19Runs it themselves
$0.29 in · $0.59 out
$0.36/M tokens - 20Same as maker
$0.27 in · $1 out
$0.45/M tokens - 21Runs it themselves
$0.14 in · $1.40 out
$0.45/M tokens - 22Runs it themselves
$0.30 in · $1.50 out
$0.60/M tokens - 23Same as maker
$0.25 in · $2 out
$0.69/M tokens - 24Same as maker
$0.25 in · $2 out
$0.69/M tokens - 25Same as maker
$0.40 in · $1.60 out
$0.70/M tokens
- 26Runs it themselves
$0.45 in · $1.50 out
$0.71/M tokens - 27Costs more
$0.56 in · $1.68 out
$0.84/M tokens - 28Same as maker
$0.30 in · $2.50 out
$0.85/M tokens - 29Runs it themselves
$0.48 in · $2 out
$0.86/M tokens - 30Runs it themselves
$0.50 in · $2 out
$0.88/M tokens - 31Runs it themselves
$0.30 in · $2.90 out
$0.95/M tokens - 32Same as maker
$1 in · $1 out
$1/M tokens - 33Same as maker
$1.10 in · $4.40 out
$1.93/M tokens - 34Same as maker
$1.10 in · $4.40 out
$1.93/M tokens - 35Same as maker
$1 in · $5 out
$2/M tokens - 36Costs more
$2 in · $6 out
$3/M tokens - 37Same as maker
$1.25 in · $10 out
$3.44/M tokens - 38Same as maker
$1.25 in · $10 out
$3.44/M tokens - 39Same as maker
$1.25 in · $10 out
$3.44/M tokens - 40Same as maker
$1.25 in · $10 out
$3.44/M tokens - 41Same as maker
$1.25 in · $10 out
$3.44/M tokens - 42Same as maker
$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 43Same as maker
$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 44
Perplexity Sonar Deep Research
Same as maker$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 45Same as maker
$2 in · $8 out
$3.50/M tokens - 46Same as maker
$2.50 in · $10 out
$4.38/M tokens - 47Same as maker
$3 in · $15 out
$6/M tokens - 48Same as maker
$3 in · $15 out
$6/M tokens - 49Same as maker
$3 in · $15 out
$6/M tokens - 50Same as maker
$5 in · $25 out
$10/M tokens - 51Costs more
$20 in · $40 out
$25/M tokens - 52Same as maker
$15 in · $60 out
$26.25/M tokens - 53Same as maker
$15 in · $75 out
$30/M tokens - 54Same as maker
$15 in · $75 out
$30/M tokens - 55Same as maker
$20 in · $80 out
$35/M tokens - 56Same as maker
$15 in · $120 out
$41.25/M tokens
Not ranked
Below the maker's own price with nothing published to account for it, or from a catalog we could not read reliably. Why
- Not ranked
$0.22 in · $0.95 out
$0.40/M tokens - Not ranked
$0.20 in · $1.50 out
$0.53/M tokens
Where to start
Cheapest
Llama 3.1 8B Instruct
131k context · tool calling · structured output
Helicone
The least you pay per million tokens at Helicone.
Biggest saving
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
262k context · tool calling · open weights
Helicone
83% less than you pay Alibaba Cloud for it.
Most widely sold
gpt-oss-120b
131k context · tool calling · reasoning
Helicone
73 providers sell it, so you can hold this price against theirs.
Kind
Router
Many makers' models, one API and one bill.
Free tier
No
every price is paid
Where Helicone ranks
Frequently asked
- What is Helicone?
- Many makers' models, one API and one bill. It sells 57 of the models we track.
- Is Helicone cheaper than buying from the maker?
- 19 of its 58 prices are below the maker's own price, and 16 of those come with a published reason, so they can lead a ranking. 2 are listed and not ranked, because nothing accounts for the gap.
- 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, read every 3 days; the reading on this page is from 31 Oct 2026. Prices exclude tax.
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