vioscaleAI
Comparison

LangChain vs Portkey

No clear leader: LangChain (79.0) and Portkey (78.9) 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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LangChain79
Portkey79
Score
vioscaleAI score
LangChain79 / 100medium · 69%
Portkey79 / 100medium · 74%
Pricing
Free tier
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Model
LangChainfreemium
Portkeyfreemium
Price level
LangChainmid
Portkeymid
Starting price
LangChain$39
Portkey$49
Transparent
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Integrations
Count
LangChain1,000
Portkey1,600
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
LangChain✓
Portkey–
Gdpr
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Hipaa
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Iso27001
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Scorecard
LangChain5.8
Portkey–
Soc2
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
LangChain99.5
Portkey–
Status page
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
LangChain18,663
Portkey–
Github stars
LangChain147,461
Portkey–
Package downloads weekly
LangChain3,725,877
Portkey–
Activity
Commits last 30d
LangChain100
Portkey–
Release
History
LangChain20 items
Portkey–
License
Spdx
LangChainMIT
Portkey–
Language
Primary
LangChainPython
Portkey–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
LangChain8 items
Portkey6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

LangChain

A unified developer platform consisting of open-source frameworks and commercial tools for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying AI agents and LLM-powered applications.

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.

LangChain

from $39/seat/moHybridFree tier

Free Developer plan. Plus plan from $39/user/mo with unlimited seats. Enterprise custom pricing billed annually.

  • DeveloperFree
    • 1 free seat
    • 5000 base traces per month
    • Full LangSmith access
  • Plus$39/seat/month, unlimited seats, 10k traces/month included
    • Unlimited seats
    • 10000 base traces per month
    • 1 free small serverless deployment
    • Team collaboration
    • LangSmith Deployment service access
  • EnterpriseContact sales
    • Advanced administration options
    • Enhanced security controls
    • Priority support
    • Custom deployment options
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
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
CLI
LangChain✗
Portkey✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
Self-hosted
LangChain✓
Portkey✓
On-premise
LangChain✗
Portkey✓
Hybrid
LangChain✓
Portkey✓

Integrations

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

In common (4)
  • OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • Google
  • AWS

LangChain

11 total - 7 not shared
  • Cohere
  • Azure OpenAI
  • Azure AI Search
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure Kubernetes Service
  • OpaquePrompts
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Independently observed

Portkey

16 total - 12 not shared
  • Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Langgraph
  • CrewAI
  • Strands Agents
  • Google ADK
  • Claude
  • Mistral
  • MongoDB
  • Vertex AI
  • Claude Code
Independently observed
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