How much does Helious cost?
Reading is free. Pro, the terminal, is $39.99 a month or $360 a year. For your own code or an AI agent, Starter is $14.99 a month and Ultimate is $99 a month. Paid yearly, every plan costs nine months instead of twelve.
Pricing
Reading Helious is free. You pay when you want it live.
Two products: the terminal, or the data for your own code and AI agents.
What you get
- Every market price live
- The terminal, with the live feed, alerts and scored data
- Live squawk of central bank press conferences and key speakers
- Ask Helious, 30 credits a month
- Two years of history. API and MCP access included
For developers and AI agents
The data, without the screen
The same numbers over the REST API and the MCP server.
Free
Try everything.
$0free forever
Every endpoint and MCP tool, with real data. Everything is delayed with no history.
Starter
Live news for your code or AI agent.
$14.99 a month
or $135 a year
News and economic prints as they happen with 12 months history via API only. Live market data and the terminal is delayed.
Ultimate
Helious inside your own product.
$99 a month
or $891 a year
Everything in Pro, the MCP push stream live, up to 10 years of data, 200 Ask Helious credits a month and priority support.
Ask Helious credits
Ask Helious
Ask in plain English and it answers from the live desk, showing the numbers it used. One credit per question; the preset questions are free. Pro includes 30 a month, Ultimate 200. Bought credits never expire and are used after plan credits.
Need more?
Credit packs are coming to the terminal. Until then the plan allowance is the allowance, and the preset questions never cost a credit.
Compare every plan
Every plan, including Free, has the REST API, the MCP server, OAuth sign-in, auction tails, the curve regime and sigma-scored releases. An integration built on Free keeps working after an upgrade.
| FREE | STARTER | PRO | ULTIMATE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $14.99 / mo | $39.99 / mo | $99.00 / mo |
| Paid yearly | Free | $135 / yr | $360 / yr | $891 / yr |
| News and prints | 1 hour behind | Live | Live | Live |
| Market prices | No | Treasury curve, 1 hour behind | All live | All live |
| The Helious terminal | Delayed | Delayed | Live | Live |
| Live squawk audio | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts and watchlists | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Ask Helious | No | No | 30 credits a month | 200 credits a month |
| History | None | 12 months | 24 months | 10 years |
| Streaming WebSocket | One snapshot a minute | One snapshot a minute | One snapshot a minute | Live |
| API rate | 60 / min | 90 / min | 120 / min | 300 / min |
| Commercial use | No | No | No | Yes |
| Support | Priority |
Point any MCP client at https://helious.io/mcp and it answers with no account. Setup is on the AI agents page and the reference is in the API docs.
FAQ
Which plan do I need?
If you want the screen, Pro. If you are wiring Helious into your own code or an AI assistant, Starter gives you the news and economic prints as they happen; Free gives you the same feed delayed. If you are putting Helious inside your own product, Ultimate adds the MCP push stream live and up to 10 years of data. Not sure? Email [email protected].
What is Ask Helious, and what does a credit cost?
Ask Helious is the assistant inside the terminal. Ask in plain English and it answers from the live desk, showing the numbers it used. One credit per question; the preset questions are free. Pro includes 30 a month, Ultimate 200. Credit packs are coming to the terminal.
Is there a free version of Helious?
Yes, and it is not a trial. Every endpoint and MCP tool answers with real data, everything delayed and with no history, and you can try the API with no account at all. Live prices and the live terminal start on Pro.
Do I pay extra for API or MCP access?
No. Every plan includes the REST API and the MCP server. Starter takes the news live, Pro takes the prices live, and Ultimate takes the MCP push stream live. An integration built on Free keeps working after an upgrade. Setup takes about two minutes: see helious.io/ai.
Can I use Helious data in my own product?
Yes, on Ultimate: $99 a month or $891 a year. It is the plan for running Helious inside your own product, with the MCP push stream live, up to 10 years of data and priority support. The other plans are for personal use.
How do I cancel?
From Account > Subscription in the terminal, any time. Your key drops back to the free tier rather than being switched off, so anything you built keeps running, delayed.