Portkey — AI Developer Tool

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What is Portkey?

Portkey is an LLM Gateway that connects your applications to 200+ AI models through a single API. It monitors costs and performance metrics, manages API keys securely, and implements reliability features like fallbacks and load balancing. This helps AI developers and teams build stable, cost-efficient applications without worrying about provider-specific integration challenges.

What sets Portkey apart?

Portkey differentiates itself with a unified interface that lets AI developers connect to any language model without changing their code base. The platform's tracing capability helps teams pinpoint issues by tracking model performance across specific user groups or features. Its semantic caching system cuts costs by up to 50% through storing responses for similar queries and serving them directly from memory.

Portkey Use Cases

Unified LLM integration
Performance monitoring
Request load balancing
Cost optimization
Prompt management

Who uses Portkey?

Machine Learning Engineers Dev Ops Engineers Technical Leads Software Engineers Backend Software Engineers Frontend Software Engineers Developer Relations Engineers Fullstack Developers

Features and Benefits

AI Gateway
Connect to over 250 LLM providers through a unified API with fallbacks, load balancing, and caching capabilities.
Observability Suite
Monitor costs, quality, and latency with 40+ metrics and detailed logs to debug and optimize AI performance.
Prompt Management
Build, version, and deploy prompts collaboratively with multi-environment support and access control.
Guardrails
Run synchronous checks on LLM behavior to ensure reliable and consistent AI responses.
Agent Workflows
Make agent frameworks production-ready with native integrations for Langchain, CrewAI, and Autogen.

Portkey Pros and Cons

Pros

Dedicated support team provides fast and responsive assistance
Simple integration requiring minimal code changes
Comprehensive analytics dashboard tracks costs and usage effectively
Caching system significantly reduces redundant API calls and costs
Real-time guardrails ensure data safety and reliability

Cons

Interface occasionally experiences bugs and glitches
Complex feature set can overwhelm new users
Pricing structure may be expensive for small organizations
Documentation needs improvement in some areas

Pricing

Developer Price not available

10k recorded logs per month
AI Gateway
Observability
Prompt Management
Simple Caching
Deterministic Guardrails
Community Support

Production $49/mo

100k recorded logs per month
+$9 overages per additional 100k requests
AI Gateway (Universal API, Fallbacks, Load Balancing, Retries)
Observability (Logs, Traces, Feedback, Metadata, Filters, Alerts)
Guardrails (LLM & Partner Guardrails)
Prompt Management (Unlimited Templates, Playground, API Endpoints, Versioning, Variables)
Security (Role-Based Access Control, Service Account API Keys)
Production Support
Simple & Semantic Caching

Enterprise Price not available

10 Mn Plus Recorded logs per month
Custom Retention Periods for Logs & Metrics
Custom Guardrail Hooks, Advanced Evaluation Templates
Governance (Role-Based Access Control, SSO, Granular Budget & Rate Limits)
Enterprise Essentials (Private Cloud Deployment, Data Export to Data Lakes, VPC Hosting, Advanced Compliance, Custom BAAs, Data Isolation)
Dedicated Onboarding & Priority Support