Helicone is now in maintenance mode. Here is how to switch to a self-hosted alternative in 5 minutes.

If you have been using Helicone to track LLM costs and traces, you may have noticed it was acquired by Mintlify in March 2026. Development has stopped. The self-hosted version has open issues that are not being fixed. The team is focused on Mintlify now. If you need a replacement, this post covers how to migrate to Torrix, a self-hosted LLM observability proxy that uses the same proxy-header model as Helicone. What Torrix does Torrix is a single Docker container that sits between your app and an