# One API vs Portkey

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Portkey

| Attribute | One API | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 46.2 (54% (medium)) | 78.9 (74% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 0 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 37,155 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"An open-source system for managing and redistributing API access across multiple large language model providers—including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and others—through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Deploys as a self-contained binary or Docker container. It is indexed under Llm Gateways.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is One API?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"One API is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the MIT licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is One API free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"One API supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does One API support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. One API can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can One API be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 12 integrations for One API, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, ByteDance Douyin, ChatGLM, Baidu ERNIE Bot and iFLYTEK Spark, plus 4 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What does One API integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. One API 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/songquanpeng/one-api","question":"Is One API 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 | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source system for managing and redistributing API access across multiple large language model providers—including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and others—through a single OpenAI-compatible API. Deploys as a self-contained binary or Docker container. | 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 | `{"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","rate_limiting":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","routing_strategy":"load-based","streaming_support":true,"automatic_failover":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":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 | 12 | 1,600 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Azure OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"DeepSeek"},{"name":"ByteDance Douyin"},{"name":"ChatGLM"},{"name":"Baidu ERNIE Bot"},{"name":"iFLYTEK Spark"},{"name":"Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen"},{"name":"360 Brain"},{"name":"Tencent Hunyuan"},{"name":"Cloudflare Gateway"},{"name":"Alibaba Qwen","native":true},{"name":"Tencent Yuan","native":true},{"name":"Baidu Wenxin","native":true},{"name":"Byte Doubao","native":true},{"name":"360 AI Brain","native":true},{"name":"Claude","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Gemini","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Doubao","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Ernie","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Spark","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Qwen","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"360 Smart Brain","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Hunyuan","native":true,"category":"llm","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"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 | JavaScript | - |
| license.spdx | MIT | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-09-14T09:24:50.525Z"}` | `{"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 | commercial | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | mid |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":49,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 19 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.10","date":"2025-02-02T12:29:38Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.9","date":"2024-12-22T10:26:16Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.8","date":"2024-08-06T15:54:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.7","date":"2024-06-25T14:59:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.6","date":"2024-05-27T17:50:41Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.5","date":"2024-04-19T16:41:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.4","date":"2024-03-30T02:50:28Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.3","date":"2024-03-24T15:45:48Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.2","date":"2024-03-15T16:02:51Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.1","date":"2024-03-10T11:53:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.6.0","date":"2024-03-01T16:03:46Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.11","date":"2024-01-14T06:10:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.10","date":"2023-12-20T14:01:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.9","date":"2023-12-10T11:53:49Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.8","date":"2023-11-24T12:43:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.7","date":"2023-11-05T11:21:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.6","date":"2023-10-02T04:24:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.5","date":"2023-09-17T10:05:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.4","date":"2023-08-30T13:48:20Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/songquanpeng/one-api/releases/tag/v0.5.3","date":"2023-08-26T04:43:30Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.5.3"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.certifications | - | `[{"name":"SOC2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"},{"name":"ISO 27001","status":"active"},{"name":"GDPR","status":"active"},{"name":"HIPAA","status":"active"}]` |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | https://portkey.ai/features/security-compliance |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fsongquanpeng%2Fone-api&per_page=100","last_12m":1,"max_severity":"MODERATE"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Llm Gateways)

| Capability | One API | Portkey |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Openai compatible API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic failover | ✓ | ✓ |
| Routing strategy | Load based | Load based |
| Caching | - | Semantic |
| Virtual key management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Budget spend controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rate limiting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guardrails moderation | - | Via integration |
| Request cost observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming support | ✓ | - |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | Managed SaaS |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Open source self host | pay_per_10k_traces |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T17:44:46.815Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*