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Portkey
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Portkey
LLM gateway + observability for production.
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Best for
Best for AI engineering teams running multi-model production traffic.
At a glance
- Pricing
- freemium
- Setup time
- 20 minutes
- Learning curve
- moderate
- Last verified
- 5/26/2026
What we love
- ✓One gateway for many models
- ✓Strong fallback + caching
- ✓Generous free tier
Where it falls short
- −Adds a hop in latency-sensitive paths
- −Best for engineering teams
- −Pricing climbs at scale
Pricing
✓ Pricing verified Jun 21, 20262 tiers
Free
$0
per month
- ✓10K requests
Production
$49
per month
- ✓1M requests
Overview
Portkey is an LLM gateway with observability, caching, retries, fallbacks, prompt management, and guardrails. One drop-in API for 200+ models.
Key features
- ●Unified gateway (200+ models)
- ●Caching + retries + fallbacks
- ●Prompt management
- ●Guardrails
- ●Observability
Best use cases
Multi-model orchestration
Route between providers with fallbacks + caching at the API layer.
Production guardrails
Enforce guardrails (PII, content filters) at the gateway layer.
Integrations
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