Portkey
Top-tier AI Gateway features: Fallbacks, Load Balancing, and Automatic Retries across providers. Essential for 'production-grade' reliability.
Pricing
Free tier
Hybrid
Adoption
→StableLicense
Open Source
Data freshness
—Overview
What is Portkey?
The AI Gateway for Production
Key differentiator
“Top-tier AI Gateway features: Fallbacks, Load Balancing, and Automatic Retries across providers. Essential for 'production-grade' reliability.”
Capability profile
Strength Radar
Honest assessment
Strengths & Weaknesses
↑ Strengths
Catalog data
Catalog data
Catalog data
↓ Weaknesses
Catalog data
Catalog data
Fit analysis
Who is it for?
✓ Best for
Switching between LLM providers with reliability (fallbacks, load balancing)
Recommended use case
Enterprise teams needing a unified gateway for all AI traffic
Recommended use case
Managing prompts and configs outside of code
Recommended use case
✕ Not a fit for
Solo devs just needing simple logging (Helicone is simpler)
Not recommended
Deep evaluation workflows (though improving)
Not recommended
Cost structure
Pricing
Free Tier
Available
10k requests/mo
Starts at
$99/month (Scale) for production volumes and team features
Model
Hybrid
Enterprise
Available
Performance benchmarks
How Fast Is It?
Ecosystem
Relationships
Next step
Get Started with Portkey
Step-by-step setup guide with code examples and common gotchas.