Portkey
An API gateway for routing requests across thousands of language models with built-in safety guardrails
- Vendor
- Portkey, Inc
- Also known as
- portkey
Available worldwide
What is Portkey?
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.
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 with 10k logs/month. Production at $49/month with usage overages. Enterprise custom pricing for compliance-focused organizations.
Developer
FreeFree tier for prototyping and testing; not suitable for production workloads
- recorded_logs
- 10k/month
- 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
Production
For teams deploying LLM apps to production
- recorded_logs
- 100k/month
- 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
Enterprise
Contact salesFor organizations with complex compliance and high-volume production requirements
- recorded_logs
- 10M+/month
- 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
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
- Unknown
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
- Self-hosted
Integrations (16)
Independently observed- OpenAI
- Google Cloud (Vertex AI, Gemini)
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Langgraph
- CrewAI
- Strands Agents
- Google ADK
- Anthropic
- Claude
- Mistral
- MongoDB
- Vertex AI
- Claude Code•
Portkey FAQ
Common questions about Portkey, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is Portkey?
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
Is Portkey free?
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
What platforms does Portkey support?
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
Can Portkey be self-hosted?
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
What does Portkey integrate with?
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
What security certifications does Portkey have?
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.
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Compare Portkey
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| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 80 | 0.06 | 5.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 92 | 0.05 | 4.4 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 100 | 0.04 | 4.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.06 | 3.2 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.05 | 2.6 | ✓ |
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Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 6 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 62% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Role: gateway · Caching: semantic · Evaluation: Yes · Open source: Yes · Soc2 type ii: Yes · Managed cloud: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 1,600 | mediumsource · 2026-08-25 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-25 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-21 · 60% |
Security
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