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Portkey
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AI gateway combining provider routing, guardrails, and logs.
Portkey is an AI gateway: route across providers, apply guardrails, and log requests. It provides an inference control plane for factories using multiple model providers.
- Model support
- Router
- Deployment
- Cloud, Self-hosted
- Open source
- No
- License
- Gateway has open components; product is commercial — see docs
- Pricing model
- Mixed
- Added / updated
- 19 Aug 2026 / 19 Aug 2026
Assessment
Portkey routes providers, applies guardrails, and records request logs through a commercial gateway. Compare it with Helicone and OpenRouter on deployment, policy, and data handling. Confirm self-hosting terms in current documentation.
Strengths
- Routing plus guardrails plus logs as one job.
- Multi-provider by design (router).
- Fits factories that already standardized on a gateway.
Limitations
- Another proxy in the path.
- Open vs commercial split needs a license read.
- Guardrails are not merge policy for code.