# CrewAI vs Portkey

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Portkey

| Attribute | CrewAI | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.1 (67% (medium)) | 78.9 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 59,661 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 4,500,329 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A comprehensive platform combining an open-source Python framework for multi-agent workflows with a managed cloud control plane that adds governance, security, tracing, and deployment capabilities for enterprise production use. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What is CrewAI?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CrewAI is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Paid editions are also offered: Enterprise, priced on request. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"Is CrewAI free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"CrewAI supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does CrewAI support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. CrewAI can be deployed cloud / SaaS, hybrid, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"Can CrewAI be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 19 integrations for CrewAI, including NVIDIA NIM, GitHub, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Arize, Galileo, DataDog and Patronus, plus 11 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://crewai.com/pricing","question":"What does CrewAI integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2 and HIPAA for CrewAI. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as CrewAI not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.crewai.com","question":"What security certifications does CrewAI have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. CrewAI is published under the MIT licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/joaomdmoura/crewAI","question":"Is CrewAI open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under MLOps & LLMOps Tools.","source":"https://portkey.ai","question":"What is Portkey?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Portkey offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $9. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://portkey.ai/pricing","question":"Is Portkey free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Portkey supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://portkey.ai","question":"What platforms does Portkey support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Portkey can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://portkey.ai","question":"Can Portkey be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 13 integrations for Portkey, including OpenAI, Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini), Azure, AWS, GCP, Langgraph, CrewAI and Strands Agents, plus 5 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://portkey.ai","question":"What does Portkey integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and GDPR for Portkey. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Portkey not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://portkey.ai/features/security-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Portkey have?","confidence":0.7}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | CrewAI is a multi-agent automation framework that provides teams with tools to build complex agent workflows through a visual editor or code. It includes a unified control plane for managing production deployments with real-time tracing, governance policies, multi-LLM support, and deployment options for cloud or on-premises infrastructure. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"commercial_enterprise_platform","self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":false,"experiment_tracking":true,"architecture_paradigm":"graph_based_cycles","native_observability_and_trace_logging":true,"fault_tolerance_and_llm_retry_mechanisms":true,"native_memory_and_state_persistence_layer":true,"tool_calling_and_function_schema_validation":true,"managed_cloud_runtime_infrastructure_offered":true,"synchronous_and_asynchronous_execution_modes":true,"streaming_output_and_intermediate_step_yielding":true,"dynamic_agent_generation_and_spawning_at_runtime":true}` | `{"role":"gateway","caching":"semantic","evaluation":true,"open_source":true,"soc2_type_ii":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"pay_per_10k_traces","rate_limiting":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"deployment_model":"managed-SaaS","no_train_on_data":"unknown","routing_strategy":"load-based","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"architecture_model":"managed_cloud_saas","automatic_failover":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"guardrails_moderation":"via-integration","openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"production_ab_testing_of_system_prompts":true,"token_cost_and_latency_waterfall_charts":true,"pii_redaction_and_prompt_content_masking":true,"prompt_playground_and_in_dashboard_replay":true,"multi_step_agentic_workflow_distributed_tracing":true,"user_feedback_score_api_for_thumbs_up_down_tags":true,"native_integration_with_langchain_and_llamaindex":true}` |
| integrations.count | 18 | 1,600 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"NVIDIA NIM"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"Arize"},{"name":"Galileo"},{"name":"DataDog"},{"name":"Patronus"},{"name":"IBM Db2"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"E2B"},{"name":"Daytona"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Model Context Protocol"},{"name":"SerperDev"},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"DashScope","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"CopilotKit","native":true,"category":"frontend","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Google Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"OpenRouter","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Oracle","native":true,"category":"database","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"MS Entra","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Okta","native":true,"category":"identity","direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Langgraph"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Strands Agents"},{"name":"Google ADK"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Mistral"},{"name":"Google"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"Vertex AI"},{"name":"Claude Code","native":true}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Basic","summary":"Free with 50 monthly executions","features":["Visual editor and AI copilot","GitHub integration","Standard tools and triggers","CrewAI cloud deployment","Usage dashboard","Community support"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Limited free tier for building and testing agentic workflows","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"agentic_workflows":"2","workflow_executions_per_month":"50"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing; includes governance, flexible deployment, and dedicated support","features":["Everything in Free, plus:","SSO (MS Entra, Okta)","Role-based access control","PII redaction and policy enforcement","Workload identity","Deploy on CrewAI cloud, customer VPC, or on-premise infrastructure","Enterprise connectors","Private agent and tools repositories","Export as MCP server","Export as UI component","OpenTelemetry tracing","LLM testing and swapping","AI agent training","Guardrails","Human-in-the-loop workflows","Slack/Teams integration","Token usage tracking","Performance metrics and deployment history","LLM management","Automatic scaling","Cron scheduling","45-day implementation onboarding","Engineering and training support"],"description":"Custom enterprise plan with governance, flexible deployment, and dedicated support","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free tier with 50 monthly executions; Enterprise plan with custom pricing","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://crewai.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T22:37:55.033Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer","summary":"Free forever, 10k logs/month","features":["Universal API & Key Management","Routing, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries","3 Prompt Templates with Playground, Versioning, Variables","Logs, Traces, Feedback, Custom Metadata, Filters","Simple Caching","Deterministic Guardrails","Community Support","3 days log retention, 30 days metrics retention"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Free tier for prototyping and testing; not suitable for production workloads","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"10k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Production","summary":"$49/month + $9 per 100k request overage","features":["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","Simple & Semantic Caching","Production Support","30 days log retention, 90 days metrics retention"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":100000,"unit":"requests"},"kind":"metered","amount":9,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"For teams deploying LLM apps to production","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"100k/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["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","Custom Business Associate Agreements","Data Isolation, Configurable exports to data lakes","Dedicated Onboarding & Priority Support"],"description":"For organizations with complex compliance and high-volume production requirements","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"recorded_logs":"10M+/month"}}],"summary":"Free tier with 10k logs/month. Production at $49/month with usage overages. Enterprise custom pricing for compliance-focused organizations.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://portkey.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-21T13:46:13.229Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":49,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 1 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.27","date":"2026-10-09T22:33:44Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.27"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.26","date":"2026-10-08T21:45:38Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.26"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.25","date":"2026-10-07T23:52:13Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.25"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.24","date":"2026-10-07T17:39:47Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.24"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.23","date":"2026-09-28T21:14:32Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.22","date":"2026-09-16T22:09:58Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.21","date":"2026-09-09T22:54:19Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.20","date":"2026-09-04T12:42:21Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.20"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.19","date":"2026-09-04T11:28:32Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.18","date":"2026-08-27T18:07:19Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.18"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.17","date":"2026-08-20T00:27:23Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.17"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.16","date":"2026-08-14T00:08:07Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.16"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.15","date":"2026-08-12T01:27:30Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.14","date":"2026-08-08T22:57:37Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.13","date":"2026-08-07T21:13:23Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.12","date":"2026-08-05T22:56:34Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.11","date":"2026-08-05T06:29:59Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.10","date":"2026-07-31T14:57:37Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.9","date":"2026-07-30T05:45:26Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/releases/tag/1.15.8","date":"2026-07-28T15:06:04Z","type":"stable","version":"1.15.8"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"FedRamp High","status":"active"},{"name":"SAM Certified","status":"active"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | - |
| security.fedramp | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.trust_center | - | https://portkey.ai/features/security-compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=crewai-clean&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

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

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T18:32:03.165Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*