Portkey
AI gateway and control panel for routing, observing, and governing LLM and agent traffic across 1,600+ models.
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Portkey is an AI gateway that gives teams a single API to route requests across 1,600+ LLMs with automatic fallbacks, load balancing, caching, and 50+ guardrails. Its hosted control plane adds logging, prompt management, cost tracking, and enterprise governance (RBAC, SSO, budgets), while the core gateway is also available as an open-source, self-hostable component. Founded in 2023 and backed by Lightspeed and Elevation Capital, Portkey targets teams shipping production LLM and agent applications.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Key features |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source (Self-Hosted) | $0 | Universal API, Retries & timeouts, Routing & load balancing, Guardrails, Automatic fallbacks, Community support |
| Developer | $0/monthly | 3-day log retention, 30-day metrics retention, 3 prompt templates, Simple caching, Deterministic guardrails, Community support |
| Production | $49/monthly | 30-day log retention, 90-day metrics retention, Unlimited prompt templates, RBAC, Service account API keys, SSO |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom retention, Custom guardrail hooks, Advanced evaluation templates, Private cloud/VPC/air-gapped deployment, SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA, custom BAAs, 24/7 priority support |
Source: https://portkey.ai/pricing
Agent-readiness
- Discoverability
- 60/100
- Machine-readable content
- 65/100
- Programmatic access
- 80/100
- MCP / agent support
- 60/100
- Self-serve transactability
- 75/100
- Transparency
- 80/100
Security & compliance
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Encryption at rest
- Yes
- Encryption in transit
- Yes
- Audit log
- Yes
- Pentest report
- Not publicly documented
"Not publicly documented" means Crail found no public evidence either way — not a confirmed absence. See our methodology. Trust center: https://trust.portkey.ai.
FAQ
Does Portkey have a free tier?
Yes, Portkey offers a free tier or free trial.
Can you buy Portkey without talking to sales?
Yes, Portkey can be purchased self-serve without a sales call.
Does Portkey have an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server?
Not as of 2026-07-26 — no official MCP server was found.
What compliance certifications does Portkey hold?
Portkey holds: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA.
What people are saying on Reddit & Hacker News
Real, publicly-posted discussion — not a Crail-verified review. Always linked back to the original post so you can read it in context.
“Pretty excited to announce this! While there are some popular and awesome AI gateways out there, like litellm, bricksai - none are written in TS, and for the TS ecosystem.”
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“Congrats, this looks neat, and surely great to have more TS products in the ecosystem. One plugin or feature that I will like to see in an AI gateway: *Cache* per unique request.”
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Methodology & disclosure
Data verified via agent crawled, last checked 2026-07-26. Agent-readiness methodology version crail-ar-v0.1. No vendor payment influences these scores — see our methodology page.