What is Portkey?
A gateway to 1,600 LLMs with monitoring and governance.
Who is Portkey best for?
Portkey is best for engineering teams running LLM apps in production that want one API for many model providers.
Apps that use several model providers
One API reaches more than 1,600 LLMs, with fallbacks, retries and load balancing when a provider slows down or fails.
Teams watching AI spend
Logs, traces and cost tracking show which apps and models drive spend, and Enterprise adds budget and rate limits for each team.
Shared prompt work
Prompt templates live outside the code with versions, variables, a playground and API endpoints, so changes do not need a redeploy.
Companies with compliance rules
The Enterprise plan offers SSO, private cloud or VPC hosting and HIPAA and SOC 2 support, and the gateway is also sold as Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
How much does Portkey cost?
Portkey is free on its Developer plan with 10,000 recorded logs a month, and its Production plan costs $49 a month for 100,000 logs, while Enterprise is priced on request.
- 10,000 recorded logs a month; extra requests still run but are not logged
- Logs kept 3 days, metrics 30 days
- AI gateway, observability and 3 prompt templates; not meant for production
- 100,000 recorded logs a month, then $9 per extra 100,000 up to 3 million
- Logs kept 30 days, metrics 90 days, with alerts
- Unlimited prompt templates, guardrails, semantic caching, role-based access
Enterprise is priced on request and adds 10 million or more logs a month, custom retention, SSO, budget and rate limits, private cloud or VPC hosting and SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA support. The open-source gateway is free to host yourself. Portkey now belongs to Palo Alto Networks, and the Production plan's upgrade button leads to Palo Alto's Prisma AIRS AI Gateway page rather than a checkout. Full pricing on portkey.ai. We checked these prices on .
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Is Portkey open source?
Yes. Portkey's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
On GitHub
13,373stars
- Last commit
- 25 May
- Repository age
- 3 years
- Latest release
- 12 Jan
- Licence
- MIT
- Self-hosted
- Yes
- Repository
- Portkey-AI/gateway
What are the best Portkey alternatives?
Portkey is an open source alternative to Eden AI. APIPark and LiteLLM do the same job and are open source too.
Questions about Portkey
What is Portkey?
A gateway to 1,600 LLMs with monitoring and governance.
Who is Portkey for?
Portkey is best for engineering teams running LLM apps in production that want one API for many model providers.
Is Portkey free?
Yes. Portkey's Developer plan is free with no end date and includes 10,000 recorded logs a month, 3-day log retention and 3 prompt templates, though Portkey says it is not meant for production. The open-source gateway is also free to host yourself; paid use starts at $49 a month.
How much does Portkey cost?
Portkey's paid plans are Production at $49 per month.
Is Portkey open source?
Yes. Portkey's code is public under the MIT licence, so you can run it on your own server.
What are the best Portkey alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Eden AI, APIPark and LiteLLM.
Where can I try Portkey?
On its official website, portkey.ai.
Is Portkey part of Palo Alto Networks?
Yes. Portkey's site now calls it a Palo Alto Networks company and says the product is offered to enterprises as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway. The free Developer plan still signs up on Portkey's own app, while the Production plan's upgrade button leads to Palo Alto's AI Gateway page.
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