vioscaleAI
Comparison

Baseten vs Portkey

No clear leader: Portkey (78.9) and Baseten (77.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Baseten77
Portkey79
Score
vioscaleAI score
Baseten77 / 100medium · 72%
Portkey79 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Model
Basetenfreemium
Portkeyfreemium
Price level
Basetenlow
Portkeymid
Starting price
Baseten–
Portkey$49
Transparent
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Integrations
Count
Baseten6
Portkey1,600
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Baseten✓
Portkey–
Gdpr
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Hipaa
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Iso27001
Baseten–
Portkey✓
Pci
Baseten✓
Portkey–
Soc2
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Trust center
Reliability
Sla pct
Baseten99.99
Portkey–
Status page
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Baseten7 items
Portkey6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Tool role
BasetenModel serving
PortkeyModel gateway / router
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Managed cloud available
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
On-prem / VPC deployment
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Observability
LLM tracing / observability
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
Baseten✗
Portkey✓
Dev
Prompt management + versioning
Baseten✗
Portkey✓
Tracking
Experiment tracking / model registry
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Serving
Model serving / inference endpoint
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Interop
OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
Baseten✗
Portkey-
Framework-agnostic
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Gateway
Multi-provider model support
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Data
No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
Baseten-
PortkeyUnknown

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Baseten

An infrastructure platform that handles serving, optimizing, and scaling machine learning models across multiple clouds. Offers both managed cloud and self-hosted deployment options with built-in performance tuning, autoscaling, and 99.99% uptime reliability.

Independently observed

Portkey

Platform providing API gateway functionality, observability with logging and traces, safety guardrails, access governance, and prompt version management for teams deploying AI applications at scale.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Baseten

Usage-basedFree tier

Pay-as-you-go model inference starting free. Model API pricing from $0.10–$4.40 per 1M tokens. GPU instances from $0.00058–$0.16633 per hour.

  • BasicFree
    • Dedicated deployments
    • Model APIs
    • Training
    • Fast cold starts
    • SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA compliant
    • +1 more
  • ProContact sales
    • Priority access to high-demand GPUs
    • Dedicated compute
    • Higher Model API rate limits
    • Hands-on engineering expertise
    • Dedicated support on Slack and Zoom
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom SLAs
    • Self-host deployments
    • On-demand flex compute
    • Use existing cloud commitments
    • Full control over data residency
    • +4 more
as of verify ↗

Portkey

from $49/moHybridFree tier

Free tier with 10k logs/month. Production at $49/month with usage overages. Enterprise custom pricing for compliance-focused organizations.

  • DeveloperFree
    • Universal API & Key Management
    • Routing, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries
    • 3 Prompt Templates with Playground, Versioning, Variables
    • Logs, Traces, Feedback, Custom Metadata, Filters
    • Simple Caching
    • +3 more
  • Production$49/month + $9 per 100k request overage
    • Universal API, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries
    • Unlimited Prompt Templates with Playground, API Deployment, Versioning, Variables
    • Logs, Traces, Feedback, Metadata, Filters, Alerts
    • LLM & Partner Guardrails
    • Role-Based Access Control, Service Account API Keys
    • +3 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Custom retention periods for logs and metrics
    • Advanced Evaluation Templates with custom guardrail hooks
    • Role-Based Access Control, SSO (Okta), Granular Budget & Rate Limits
    • Private Cloud Deployment, VPC Hosting, Data Export to Data Lakes
    • SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA compliance certifications
    • +3 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
CLI
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Self-hosted
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
On-premise
Baseten✓
Portkey✓
Hybrid
Baseten✓
Portkey✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Baseten

9 total
  • Plotly
  • OpenAI-compatible endpoint
  • Truss
  • SageMaker
  • ComfyUI
  • Exa
  • Keenable
  • Parallel
  • You.com
Independently observed

Portkey

16 total
  • OpenAI
  • Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Langgraph
  • CrewAI
  • Strands Agents
  • Google ADK
  • Anthropic
  • Claude
  • Mistral
  • Google
  • MongoDB
  • Vertex AI
  • Claude Code
Independently observed
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