--- title: Helious pricing description: What Helious costs: free to read, live news from $14.99 a month, every market price live at $39.99, streaming and commercial use at $99. source: Helious canonical: https://helious.io/pricing --- # Helious pricing Reading Helious is free and stays that way. Pay when you want it live. Every plan sees the same endpoints and the same response shapes, so an integration built on the free tier keeps working after an upgrade. ## The ladder in one minute 1. **Free ($0)**: You see everything Helious does. The news feed an hour behind, a week of history, and every API endpoint answering for real. The only thing held back is market prices. 2. **Starter ($14.99 a month, or $135 a year)**: The news goes live. The hour delay disappears, the history window opens to a year, and you get your first prices: the US Treasury curve, an hour behind. 3. **Pro ($39.99 a month, or $360 a year)**: The prices go live too, and you get the screen. Yields, stocks, FX, commodities: every price live, plus the Helious terminal, the live squawk, and two years of history. 4. **Ultimate ($99 a month, or $891 a year)**: Your system runs on it. A commercial licence to run Helious data inside your own system, a streaming connection that pushes it to you, and ten years of history. ## Which plan fits - I want to follow the market and test the API before paying: **Free**. - My AI assistant or my code needs the news the moment it happens: **Starter**. - I trade, and I want live prices and the terminal in front of me: **Pro**. - I need this data running inside my own system or product: **Ultimate**. ## Plans ### Free **See how it all works.** Read the desk, try the API, wire up your AI. Free forever. **Price:** free. No card. Not a trial. What you get: - Every endpoint and all 20 MCP tools, real answers from day one - The news feed, one hour behind the market - 7 days of history - No market prices yet: yields and the other boards answer with the upgrade steps instead - 60 API calls a minute - Works with no account at all, with 1 day of history ### Starter **The waiting stops.** Your AI assistant or your own code, reading the news as it happens. **Monthly price:** $14.99 per month. **Annual price:** $135 per year, which works out at $11.25 per month, a saving of 25 per cent. Card payments for this plan open shortly. Everything else on it works now. Everything in Free, plus: - The hour delay disappears: news and economic numbers arrive the second they happen - Your first market prices: US Treasury yields and the curve, one hour behind - History deepens from 7 days to 12 months - 90 API calls a minute Built for people who work inside Claude, ChatGPT or their own code. No terminal, and no other market prices: both arrive with Pro. ### Pro **The prices go live.** For trading with. The whole desk, live, plus the screen itself. **Monthly price:** $39.99 per month. **Annual price:** $360 per year, which works out at $30 per month, a saving of 25 per cent. Card payments for this plan open shortly. Everything else on it works now. Everything in Starter, plus: - Every market price goes live: yields, stocks, FX, commodities, volatility - The Helious terminal: the live screen the desk runs - Live squawk: Fed press conferences transcribed as they are spoken - History deepens from 12 months to 24 months - Alerts, watchlists and the full live feed - 120 API calls a minute ### Ultimate **Your system runs on it.** Helious data inside your own system, pushed to you as it happens. **Monthly price:** $99 per month. **Annual price:** $891 per year, which works out at $74.25 per month, a saving of 25 per cent. Card payments for this plan open shortly. Everything else on it works now. Everything in Pro, plus: - A commercial licence: run our numbers inside your own system and redistribute them - A dedicated streaming connection that pushes every price and print to you as it happens - History deepens from 24 months to 10 years - 300 API calls a minute - Bulk data drops and priority support Talk to us at support@helious.news before you buy, so the redistribution terms are written down. ## Every plan compared | | Free | Starter | Pro | Ultimate | |---|---|---|---|---| | Price | Free | $14.99 / mo | $39.99 / mo | $99.00 / mo | | Billed annually | Free | $135 / yr | $360 / yr | $891 / yr | | History window | 7 days | 12 months | 24 months | 10 years | | News and prints | 1 hour behind | Live | Live | Live | | Market prices | No | Treasury curve, 60 min behind | All live | All live | | Streaming WebSocket | No | No | No | Yes | | API rate | 60 / min | 90 / min | 120 / min | 300 / min | | REST API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | MCP server, 20 tools | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Sign in with OAuth 2.1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Treasury auction tails | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Curve regime and flip times | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Releases scored in sigma | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | The Helious terminal | No | No | Live | Live | | Live squawk audio | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Alerts and watchlists | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Commercial use | No | No | No | Yes | | Support | Email | Email | Email | Priority | ## Using it from an AI assistant Point any MCP client at https://helious.io/mcp and it answers immediately with no account. Setup is written out at https://helious.io/ai/ and the full reference is at https://helious.io/developers/.