Portkey

Top-tier AI Gateway features: Fallbacks, Load Balancing, and Automatic Retries across providers. Essential for 'production-grade' reliability.

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Pricing

Free tier

Hybrid

Adoption

Stable

License

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

Switching betwee…Enterprise teams…Managing prompts…

Honest assessment

Strengths & Weaknesses

↑ Strengths

Switching between LLM providers with reliability (fallbacks, load balancing)

Catalog data

Enterprise teams needing a unified gateway for all AI traffic

Catalog data

Managing prompts and configs outside of code

Catalog data

↓ Weaknesses

Solo devs just needing simple logging (Helicone is simpler)

Catalog data

Deep evaluation workflows (though improving)

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

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Performance benchmarks

How Fast Is It?

Ecosystem

Relationships

Alternatives

Works well with

Next step

Get Started with Portkey

Step-by-step setup guide with code examples and common gotchas.

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