Sulat.com
AI models
$10 off the fastest DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3
$10 off the fastest DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and GLM 5.3 from Synthetic
Helicone logo

Provider details

Helicone

Learn more about this provider, then browse the models currently listed under it.

heliconehelicone
XLinkedInGitHubDiscordCrunchbase
Provider docs
News search byUse it for free

Latest news about Helicone

Helicone

Official sourceAnnouncement

Helicone's own blog index confirms the acquisition announcement, with a post titled "Helicone Joins Mintlify" dated March 3, 2026 by Cole Gottdank, noting "three years and 14.2 trillion tokens" of platform usage. The blog index also surfaces a separate September 10, 2025 post titled "The Helicone AI Gateway, Now On The The blog index lists additional recent gateway-related content including an MCP overview (January 14, 2026), an "OpenRouter Alternatives in 2025" comparison (November 13, 2025), a Helicone AI Gateway guide (October 29, 2025), an n8n integration guide (October 24, 2025), and a migration guide from OpenRouter to Helicone

Helicone

Coverage

An independent July 17, 2026 tutorial confirms Mintlify's acquisition of Helicone on March 3, 2026, and adds that the product has moved into maintenance mode: security patches, bug fixes, and new model support will continue, but no new features are planned. This is a critical status update for developers currently usin The piece details Helicone's technical architecture: Apache-2.0 licensed open-source platform originating from Y Combinator's W23 batch with roughly 5,953 GitHub stars. Integration is via a proxy that swaps the client's base URL to capture cost, latency, and token metrics per request, with caching (Helicone-Cache-Enabl

Helicone

Coverage

A July 16, 2026 independent buyer's guide corroborates that 'Mintlify took Helicone into maintenance mode' as part of broader 2026 AI observability market consolidation, alongside ClickHouse acquiring Langfuse, CoreWeave absorbing Weights & Biases, and Palo Alto Networks buying Portkey. The guide segments observability The article provides market context useful for Helicone users weighing migration: ownership changes now matter as much as features, and the buyer's guide explicitly steers readers with cost-control questions to a separate AI FinOps guide rather than observability platforms. Kosmoy discloses its own conflict of interest

About Helicone

What they do

Helicone is an open-source LLM observability and gateway platform for routing, logging, debugging, and analyzing production AI traffic.

How they were founded

Founded in 2023 by Justin Torre and Cole Gottdank during Y Combinator's Winter 2023 batch to build LLM observability tooling, later expanding into gateway products.

Sources

helicone.aiycombinator.comhelicone.ai

Quick Info

Organization
Helicone
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
SDK package
@ai-sdk/openai-compatible
Synced at
Jul 11, 2026

Models served

90 models available through Helicone

These model results are sorted newest first so you can quickly see the latest options from this provider.

Heliconeclaude-opus
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
claude-4.5-opusHeliconeReleased Nov 24, 2025200,000 token context windowIn $5.00 · Out $25.00
Input
Output
Heliconegemini-pro
Google Gemini 3 Pro Preview
gemini-3-pro-previewHeliconeReleased Nov 18, 20251,048,576 token context windowIn $2.00 · Out $12.00
Input
Output
Heliconegrok
xAI Grok 4.1 Fast Reasoning
grok-4-1-fast-reasoningHeliconeReleased Nov 17, 20252,000,000 token context windowIn $0.20 · Out $0.50
Input
Output
Heliconegrok
xAI Grok 4.1 Fast Non-Reasoning
grok-4-1-fast-non-reasoningHeliconeReleased Nov 17, 20252,000,000 token context windowIn $0.20 · Out $0.50
Input
Output
Heliconekimi-thinking
Kimi K2 Thinking
kimi-k2-thinkingHeliconeReleased Nov 6, 2025256,000 token context windowIn $0.48 · Out $2.00
Input
Output
Heliconeclaude-haiku
Anthropic: Claude 4.5 Haiku
claude-4.5-haikuHeliconeReleased Oct 1, 2025200,000 token context windowIn $1.00 · Out $5.00
Input
Output
Heliconeclaude-sonnet
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5
claude-4.5-sonnetHeliconeReleased Sep 29, 2025200,000 token context windowIn $3.00 · Out $15.00
Input
Output
Heliconeqwen
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
qwen3-vl-235b-a22b-instructHeliconeReleased Sep 23, 2025256,000 token context windowIn $0.30 · Out $1.50
Input
Output
Heliconedeepseek
DeepSeek V3.2
deepseek-v3.2HeliconeReleased Sep 22, 2025163,840 token context windowIn $0.27 · Out $0.41
Input
Output
Heliconedeepseek
DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus
deepseek-v3.1-terminusHeliconeReleased Sep 22, 2025128,000 token context windowIn $0.27 · Out $1.00
Input
Output
Heliconegrok
xAI Grok 4 Fast Non-Reasoning
grok-4-fast-non-reasoningHeliconeReleased Sep 19, 20252,000,000 token context windowIn $0.20 · Out $0.50
Input
Output
Heliconekimi-k2
Kimi K2 (09/05)
kimi-k2-0905HeliconeReleased Sep 5, 2025262,144 token context windowIn $0.50 · Out $2.00
Input
Output
Heliconegrok
xAI: Grok 4 Fast Reasoning
grok-4-fast-reasoningHeliconeReleased Sep 1, 20252,000,000 token context windowIn $0.20 · Out $0.50
Input
Output
Heliconeclaude-opus
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.1
claude-opus-4-1HeliconeReleased Aug 5, 2025200,000 token context windowIn $15.00 · Out $75.00
Input
Output
Heliconeqwen
Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct
qwen3-coder-30b-a3b-instructHeliconeReleased Jul 31, 2025262,144 token context windowIn $0.10 · Out $0.30
Input
Output
Previous pagePage 1 of 5Next page