How much does Helious cost?
Reading is free. Pro, the terminal, is $39.99 a month or $360 a year. With the current yearly offer, code ANNUAL199, the year is $199 instead of $360, which saves $280 a year compared with paying monthly, and it renews at $199 for as long as you subscribe. The live squawk on its own is $99 a year on the Squawk plan, paid yearly. For your own code or an AI agent, Starter is $14.99 a month and Ultimate is $99 a month. Paid yearly, the monthly plans cost nine months instead of twelve.
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 is the plan for it, with up to 10 years of data and of consensus history for every release. Ultimate is also the plan if you need more than 24 months of history or a larger consensus set for modelling, or if you poll constantly and take everything live: it has no credit cap and five live stream connections a key. Not sure? Email support@helious.news.
How far back does the consensus history go?
Ten years on Ultimate, for every release on the economic calendar: the consensus that stood, the first actual, the previous and the revised prior at each print, for the US, the euro area, the UK, Japan and Germany. Pro reads 24 months and Starter 12: a deeper plan unlocks more of the record, actuals and consensus alike. It is on /v1/series/{slug}, on /v1/calendar/history and in the MCP tools.
What is a credit, and what does one buy?
One wallet pays for everything your account does. An API or MCP data call is 1 credit, a typed Ask Helious question is 10, and on Pro and Ultimate the preset questions are free. On Free, Squawk and Starter the data runs an hour behind; add fresh=1 to a call and it answers live for 5 credits. Pro and Ultimate are live for 1. Free includes 100 a month, Starter 1,500, Pro 3,000, Ultimate has no cap. Packs are bought in the terminal, 500 for $9.99, or 1,500 for $24.99. They never expire and are used after your plan credits. Credits buy usage; your plan sets how fresh the data is, and a live answer on a free key is 5 credits.
What is Ask Helious?
The assistant inside the terminal. Ask in plain English and it answers from the desk, showing the numbers it used, for 10 credits a question. Live on Pro and Ultimate; an hour behind on Free, Squawk and Starter. Questions about Helious itself never spend credits.
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, and Pro takes the prices live, on the API and on the WebSocket stream. 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 up to 10 years of data and of consensus history for every release, the live stream on 5 connections a key 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.
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Pricing information was last updated on November 09, 2026
