Baseten vs Portkey
No clear leader: Portkey (78.9) and Baseten (76.3) 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for mlops & llmops tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
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.
Portkey
Portkey is an AI gateway platform that routes to 1,600+ language models while incorporating 50+ built-in content safety guardrails. It provides SDKs, CLI tools, and infrastructure components for deploying and managing generative AI applications.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Baseten
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
Portkey
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
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Baseten
- Plotly
- OpenAI-compatible endpoint
- Truss
- SageMaker
Portkey
- OpenAI
- Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Langgraph
- CrewAI
- Strands Agents
- Google ADK
- Anthropic
- Claude
- Mistral
- MongoDB
- Vertex AI
- Claude Code
Baseten or Portkey: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.