Portkey
Production AI gateway with routing, guardrails, budgets and observability.
An AI gateway and control plane for production LLM apps: conditional routing, retries and fallbacks, caching, guardrails, budgets and request logs/traces. The core gateway is open source; managed and enterprise plans add governance.
- Vendor
- Portkey
- Category
- AI gateways
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Open source
- Yes
- License
- MIT
- Platforms
- API, Self-hosted
- Launched
- 2023
- Website
- portkey.ai
Features
- Routing & fallbacks
- Guardrails
- Budgets
- Logs & traces
Best for
- Enterprise
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