What is Portkey?
Portkey equips AI teams with everything needed to go to production—AI Gateway, Observability, Guardrails, Governance, and Prompt Management in one platform.
Portkey pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier for prototyping; Production at $49/month with $9 overage per 100k logs; Enterprise with custom pricing
Developer
FreePerfect for prototyping and testing or evaluating enterprise POCs. Not suitable for production workloads.
- log_retention
- 3 days
- recorded_logs
- 10k/mo
- metrics_retention
- 30 days
- 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
Production
Great for teams ready to deploy LLM apps in production. Not recommended for organizations requiring custom security controls or data residency guarantees.
- overage_rate
- $9 per 100k additional logs
- log_retention
- 30 days
- recorded_logs
- 100k/mo
- metrics_retention
- 90 days
- 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
Enterprise
Contact salesBuilt for organizations with complex compliance needs and high-volume production workloads. Full Portkey feature set with enterprise support and multiple deployment configurations.
- log_retention
- Custom
- recorded_logs
- 10M+/mo
- metrics_retention
- Custom
- 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
What Portkey does
The capabilities that matter for mlops & llmops tools, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Tool role
- Model gateway / router
- Self-hostable / OSS core
- ✓
- Managed cloud available
- ✓
- On-prem / VPC deployment
- ✓
- LLM tracing / observability
- ✓
- Evaluation (offline / LLM-judge / human)
- ✓
- Prompt management + versioning
- ✓
- Experiment tracking / model registry
- ✓
- Model serving / inference endpoint
- ✓
- OpenTelemetry / OpenLLMetry compatible
- -
- Framework-agnostic
- ✓
- Multi-provider model support
- ✓
- No-train-on-customer-data guarantee
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Hybrid
- On-premise
- Self-hosted
Portkey alternatives
Other mlops & llmops tools we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- OllamaThe easiest way to build with open modelslow · 22%
- OllamaThe easiest way to build with open modelslow · 45%
- BasetenInference is everythinglow · 47%
- MLflowOpen Source AI Platform for Agents, LLMs & Modelslow · 47%
- Weights & BiasesThe AI developer platformlow · 25%
- LangChainObserve, Evaluate, and Deploy Reliable AI Agentsmedium · 55%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Portkey, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | 100 | 32.00 | 3200.0 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 100 | 16.00 | 1600.0 | ✓ |
| Security Posture | 55 | 12.00 | 660.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 12.00 | 600.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 50 | 10.00 | 500.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 18.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| 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} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |