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Open Token vs Helicone
Helicone is a proxy-based LLM observability tool with request logging, caching and rate limits. In March 2026 Helicone joined Mintlify and the product moved to maintenance mode.
Where Open Token is different
Actively developed, with a roadmap focused on AI cost governance across your model providers.
Budgets and alerts per team, feature, customer and agent run, with agent dashboards and traces joined to cost.
On Amazon Bedrock, inference runs in your AWS account through a revocable role, with no AWS keys required.
When Helicone is the better fit
- You depend on features Helicone already has and don't need new ones.
Using both
Migrating is a similar one-line change in your clients. Our team helps you move dashboards and alerts over.
Active development
- Open Token
- Yes
- Helicone
- Nomaintenance mode
Spend caps that block requests
- Open Token
- Partialalerts today, blocking on roadmap
- Helicone
- Partialrate limits
Per-run monitoring and loop detection alerts
- Open Token
- Yes
- Helicone
- No
Stopping an agent run in the request path
- Open Token
- Soon
- Helicone
- No
Inference in your AWS account without stored secrets
- Open Token
- Yes
- Helicone
- No
Attribution tags in your AWS cost reports
- Open Token
- Yes
- Helicone
- No
Based on each vendor's public documentation and pricing as of September 26, 2026. Tell us if something has changed and we'll update it.
Sources: Helicone pricing · Helicone joins Mintlify
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