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Portkey
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AI gateway: routing, guardrails, and observability in one proxy.
Portkey is an AI gateway: route across providers, apply guardrails, log requests. It is a control plane for inference, which factories need when they refuse to hardcode one lab.
- Model independence
- 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
Editorial take
Portkey vs Helicone vs OpenRouter is a bake-off we will not score. This listing is the commercial gateway with guardrails as a headline. Self-host claims belong on current docs.
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.