Helicone vs Braintrust
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Helicone
Open-source LLM observability, now in maintenance mode
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Braintrust
Evals and production tracing for teams shipping AI agents
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7.6 / 10 | 7.5 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Open Source | Freemium |
| Free tier | Apache-2.0 open-source stack, free to self-host with Docker; maintenance-only updates. Hosted Hobby tier (10,000 requests/mo) is closed to new sign-ups | Starter: $0 a month, unlimited users, $10 of model credits, 1 GB processed data, 10k scores, 14-day retention; no credit card |
| Paid from | Hosted Pro listed at $79/mo, but new sign-ups have been disabled since March 2026 | $249/month (Pro, $100 of model credits) plus metered data and scores |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Mintlify (acquired March 2026) | — |
| Verdict | Helicone was one of the lowest-friction ways to see what your LLM calls cost. Since Mintlify acquired it in March 2026 it has been in maintenance mode, with security fixes and new-model support but no new features, and n... |
Braintrust has the most complete trace-to-dataset-to-experiment loop we have seen for teams that treat evaluation as engineering. Loop drafts scorers and datasets, Patterns surfaces recurring production failures, and Bra... |
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