Is Helicone Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
On GitHub, the project describes itself as: “🧊 Open source LLM observability platform. One line of code to monitor, evaluate, and experiment. YC W23 🍓”
Short answer: Yes, but development has slowed. Health score 29/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
Helicone’s main branch received 10 commits in the last 91 days, against 808 in the same 91 days a year earlier (−99%). That is less than half of last year’s pace, which the index labels “slowing down”. It has 6,228 stars on GitHub.
Helicone usage: downloads and installs
heliconeTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: PyPI download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 20:53 UTC.
Helicone security practices and adoption
Used by other projects
deps.dev: PyPI packages that depend on helicone 1.0.14
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents2
- RegistryPyPI
Latest release
GitHub release and contributor data
- Versionv2025.08.21-1
- Published21 Aug 2025
- Contributors97
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 21:41 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 13.1 / 35 | 10 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 0.2 / 20 | 1% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 7.0 / 15 | last commit 32 days ago |
| Releases | 0.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 423 days ago |
| Community | 8.4 / 20 | 10 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 171. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
Helicone: common questions
Is Helicone still maintained?
Yes, but development has slowed. As of 18 October 2026, Helicone received 10 commits in the last 91 days, less than half of its pace a year earlier; the latest commit is from 16 September 2026. Its health score is 29 out of 100.
What is the latest Helicone release?
The latest GitHub release of Helicone is v2025.08.21-1, published on 21 August 2025.
How many people contribute to Helicone?
GitHub lists 97 contributors for Helicone. 10 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does Helicone use?
GitHub identifies the Helicone licence as Apache-2.0. Read the licence file before commercial use.
How many times is Helicone downloaded?
The helicone package on PyPI was downloaded 1,135 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
Have you used Helicone? Rate it:
Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 6,225 | 10 | Slowing down |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 6,226 | 10 | Slowing down |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for Helicone since then.
Other evaluation & observability
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langfuse | Active | 36.0k | 2,266 | +202% |
| promptfoo | Active | 26.1k | 1,164 | +47% |
| Opik | Active | 22.7k | 1,118 | +29% |
| OpenAI Evals | No recent commits | 19.6k | 0 | — |
| DeepEval | Slowing down | 18.9k | 578 | −70% |
| Ragas | No recent commits | 16.1k | 0 | −100% |
| LM Evaluation Harness | Active | 14.3k | 85 | +31% |
| Arize Phoenix | Active | 11.9k | 1,111 | +41% |
| Helicone | Slowing down | 6.2k | 10 | −99% |
Status badge
Show Helicone’s live maintenance status in a README. The badge updates with this page and links back to it.
[](https://evalaitools.com/tools/helicone/)How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.