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Comparison

Humanloop vs Portkey

On the evidence we track, Portkey leads this comparison with a composite score of 79/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Humanloop56
★Portkey79
Score
vioscaleAI score
Humanloop56 / 100high · 75%
Portkey79 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Model
Humanloopfreemium
Portkeyfreemium
Price level
Humanlooplow
Portkeymid
Starting price
Humanloop–
Portkey$49
Transparent
Humanloop✗
Portkey✓
Integrations
Count
Humanloop5
Portkey1,600
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Humanloop✓
Portkey–
Gdpr
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Hipaa
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Iso27001
Humanloop–
Portkey✓
Soc2
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Humanloop–
Portkey✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Humanloop7 items
Portkey6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for llm observability. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Architecture model
HumanloopManaged cloud saas
PortkeyManaged cloud saas
Token cost and latency waterfall charts
Humanloop-
Portkey✓
Opentelemetry openllmetry native export support
Humanloop-
Portkey-
Prompt playground and in dashboard replay
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Multi step agentic workflow distributed tracing
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
User feedback score API for thumbs up down tags
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Pii redaction and prompt content masking
Humanloop-
Portkey✓
Production ab testing of system prompts
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Automated anomaly detection for rate limits
Humanloop✓
Portkey-
Native integration with langchain and llamaindex
Humanloop-
Portkey✓
SOC2 type ii
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Mit or apache permissive oss license
Humanloop✗
Portkey✓
Pricing model
Humanloopusage/seat-based-saas
PortkeyPay per 10k traces

What each one is

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

Humanloop

An enterprise platform that helps teams evaluate language model performance, manage and version prompts, and monitor AI systems in production.

Independently observed

Portkey

Leader

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.

Humanloop

SubscriptionFree tier

Free trial. Monthly billing with no long-term commitment for standard plans; annual billing available for enterprise.

  • Free TrialFree
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • SSO + SAML
    • Role-based access controls
    • Hands-on support with SLA
    • VPC deployment add-on
as of verify ↗

Portkey

Leader
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
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
CLI
Humanloop✗
Portkey✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
Self-hosted
Humanloop✓
Portkey✓
On-premise
Humanloop✗
Portkey✓
Hybrid
Humanloop✗
Portkey✓

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic

Humanloop

6 total - 4 not shared
  • Git
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • CI/CD
Independently observed

Portkey

Leader
16 total - 14 not shared
  • Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Langgraph
  • CrewAI
  • Strands Agents
  • Google ADK
  • Claude
  • Mistral
  • Google
  • MongoDB
  • Vertex AI
  • Claude Code
Independently observed
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