Helicone

license

Apache-2.0(OSI)

source

public

core-gated

ungated(Apache-2.0 across the whole recursive tree with a single LICENSE, no ee/ or enterprise directory, no license-key or premium flag

Apache-2.0 throughout, self-hostable in full, with a hosted Helicone Cloud sold beside it. A separate hosted product is not a gated core, and the cloud's tiered pricing is not evidence on this dimension. The read behind that: the whole default branch contains exactly one LICENSE, the Apache-2.0 root file. There is no enterprise directory, no second license, no license-key module and no entitlement flag. The README's self-host path is the published docker-compose file covering all five services - web, worker, jawn, Supabase and ClickHouse, plus Minio. What does exist is plan gating, and it ships as published Apache-2.0 code: web/lib/features.ts declares the add-on and non-free feature lists, web/lib/freeTierLimits.ts sets the quotas, and web/hooks/useFreeTierLimit.ts reads them. Those enforce Helicone Cloud's billing plan against a hosted account, ship in the source, and are modifiable under Apache-2.0, so the thing that looks like a gate withholds nothing. One datum points the other way and is recorded rather than smoothed over: the pricing page lists SAML SSO on the Enterprise tier, and the repository contains no SAML, SSO, OAuth identity-provider, Okta or WorkOS implementation anywhere. That is an absence rather than a carve-out or a closed package, and the Enterprise tier's other named item, on-prem deployment, is support for a deployment the repository already ships for free. So it meets none of the tests for a gated core. It is the weakest point in this record, and a later reader who disagrees has the same facts in front of them.

• https://github.com/Helicone/helicone recorded 2026-06-04

  Apache-2.0 license; full source; hosted cloud paid tiers + self-host

• https://api.github.com/repos/Helicone/helicone/git/trees/main?recursive=1 recorded 2026-08-12

  The whole repository as one tree, `truncated: false`, so this is every path rather than a root listing. Searched for the gating mechanisms the rubric names: no path contains `/ee/`, none contains `enterprise` outside bifrost marketing pages and static images, there is exactly one `LICENSE` (the Apache-2.0 root file), and nothing matches `premium`, `entitle`, `saml`, `okta`, `workos` or `oauth`. The paths matching `tier` are packages/pricing/tiers.ts, web/lib/freeTierLimits.ts, web/hooks/useFreeTierLimit.ts, web/components/shared/FreeTierLimit*.tsx and two SQL migrations - all published.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Helicone/helicone/main/README.md recorded 2026-08-12

  The vendor's own self-host instructions and architecture. "Helicone is simple to self-host and update. To get started locally, just use our docker-compose file", with a clone-and-`./helicone-compose.sh helicone up` recipe and no caveat about a reduced edition. It lists the services that make up the product - Web, Worker, Jawn, Supabase, ClickHouse, Minio - all of which are directories in this repository, and states "Helicone is licensed under the Apache v2.0 License". The one paid item named here is a Helm chart: "For Enterprise workloads, we also have a production-ready Helm chart available. To access, contact us at enterprise@helicone.ai" - packaging for a deployment the published docker-compose already performs.

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Helicone/helicone/main/web/lib/features.ts recorded 2026-08-12

  The plan gating, read rather than inferred from its file name. It declares `ADDON_FEATURES = ["evals", "experiments", "prompts"]` and `NON_FREE_FEATURES = ["sessions", "properties", "users", "datasets", "alerts"]`, with subfeature quotas resolved in web/lib/freeTierLimits.ts (10 prompt runs, 10 playground runs, 3 experiments and so on, each with an upgrade message). Every one of those features is implemented in this repository; the code decides what a Helicone Cloud account on the free plan may do, and it is itself Apache-2.0 and modifiable. Nothing is withheld from the published source.

• https://www.helicone.ai/pricing recorded 2026-08-12

  The paid tiers, listed for the record and against the dimension rather than for it. Pro $79/mo adds unlimited seats, alerts and reports, and HQL; Team $799/mo adds five organizations, SOC-2 and HIPAA compliance and a dedicated Slack channel; Enterprise adds a custom MSA, SAML SSO, on-prem deployment and bulk cloud discounts. These price a hosted account and a support relationship. The single item here the published source cannot build is SAML SSO, which is recorded in the note as the one datum arguing the other way.