# Portkey vs Weights & Biases

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Portkey

| Attribute | Portkey | Weights & Biases |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 80 (46% (low)) | 78.2 (25% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 11,214 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Portkey equips AI teams with everything needed to go to production—AI Gateway, Observability, Guardrails, Governance, and Prompt Management in one platform. | Weights & Biases provides experiment tracking, model evaluation, LLM serving, and AI application monitoring. It offers hyperparameter optimization, data visualization, evaluation tools, and serverless inference for multiple LLM providers. |
| features.capabilities | `{"role":"gateway","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true}` | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"self_hostable":false,"multi_provider":true,"no_train_on_data":"unknown","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true}` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | MIT |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Developer","summary":"Free forever","features":["Universal API, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries","Logs, Traces, Feedback, Custom Metadata, Filters","3 Prompt Templates, Playground, API Endpoints, Versioning, Variables","Simple Caching","Deterministic Guardrails","Community Support"],"description":"Perfect for prototyping and testing or evaluating enterprise POCs. Not suitable for production workloads.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"log_retention":"3 days","recorded_logs":"10k/mo","metrics_retention":"30 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Production","summary":"$49/month","features":["Universal API, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries","Logs, Traces, Feedback, Metadata, Filters, Alerts","LLM & Partner Guardrails","Unlimited Templates, Playground, API Endpoints, Versioning, Variables","Role-Based Access Control, Service Account API Keys","Production Support","Simple & Semantic Caching"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Great for teams ready to deploy LLM apps in production. Not recommended for organizations requiring custom security controls or data residency guarantees.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"overage_rate":"$9 per 100k additional logs","log_retention":"30 days","recorded_logs":"100k/mo","metrics_retention":"90 days"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["Custom Guardrail Hooks, Advanced Evaluation Templates","Role-Based Access Control, SSO, Granular Budget & Rate Limits","Private Cloud Deployment, Data Export to Data Lakes, VPC Hosting","Advanced Compliance (SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA)","Custom BAAs, Data Isolation","Dedicated Onboarding & Priority Support"],"description":"Built for organizations with complex compliance needs and high-volume production workloads. Full Portkey feature set with enterprise support and multiple deployment configurations.","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"log_retention":"Custom","recorded_logs":"10M+/mo","metrics_retention":"Custom"}}],"summary":"Free tier for prototyping; Production at $49/month with $9 overage per 100k logs; Enterprise with custom pricing","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://portkey.ai","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T22:44:45.309Z","startingPrice":{"amount":49,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` | - |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | - |
| pricing.model | commercial | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | mid | - |
| pricing.starting_gbp | 49 | - |
| pricing.transparent | yes | - |
| release.cadence_days | - | 20 |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (MLOps & LLMOps Tools)

| Capability | Portkey | Weights & Biases |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Tool role | Model gateway / router | End-to-end ML platform |
| **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 |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-08-07T00:02:21.511Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*