AI Infrastructure & MLOps Freemium

Portkey

AI gateway, observability, guardrails, and governance for production model traffic

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PricingFreemium
Starting price$49/mo
Free planYes
Free trialYes
APIYes
Open sourceYes
DeploymentHybrid
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
Overview

Tool overview

Portkey is listed under AI Infrastructure & MLOps AI tools.

Summary

What is Portkey?

Portkey provides a universal AI gateway, routing, retries, fallbacks, caching, key management, observability, prompt management, guardrails, governance, and MCP security. Teams can use a free developer plan, a paid production plan, an MIT-licensed gateway, or private enterprise deployments.

Best fit

Best for

Teams operating multi-provider AI applications and agents in production

Audience

Who is it for?

AI platform engineersLLM application developersSecurity and governance teamsEnterprise infrastructure teams
Recommendation

Decision note

Best for teams that need one production control plane across multiple model providers, environments, security tools, and agent workflows.

Capabilities

Key features

Universal API with routing, retries, and fallbacks

Observability, cost tracking, and prompt management

Guardrails, budgets, rate limits, and access controls

Open-source gateway and private enterprise deployment options

Workflows

Use cases

Standardize access to many model providers

Improve reliability of production AI requests

Govern keys, costs, and model usage

Secure agent and MCP traffic

Strengths

Pros

  • Developer plan is free forever
  • Production starts at $49 per month
  • Open-source gateway uses the MIT License
Considerations

Limitations

Portkey does not replace provider contracts, application testing, or security governance. Teams must configure fallbacks, budgets, guardrails, retention, and access policies for their own risk and workload requirements.

Cost

Pricing details

Pricing modelFreemium
Starting price$49/mo
Free planYes
Free trialYes
Pricing context

Billing options

Free Developer planMonthly Production subscriptionRecorded-log overagesCustom Enterprise
Pricing context

Pricing note

Developer is free forever for prototypes and POCs. Production costs $49 per month with 100,000 recorded logs and listed overages. Enterprise uses custom pricing for higher scale, private cloud, VPC hosting, isolation, compliance, support, and custom retention.

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Compatibility

Supported languages

  • English
Connectivity

Integrations

OpenAI

Anthropic

AWS Bedrock

Azure OpenAI

Google models

Partner guardrails

Specs

Technical details

PlatformsWeb
Multilingual supportUnknown
Login requiredYes
Open sourceYes
LicenseMIT License for the open-source gateway
DeploymentHybrid
CompanyPortkey, a Palo Alto Networks company
Editions / plansOpen Source Gateway Developer Production Enterprise
Data confidenceHigh
Last verifiedAugust 3, 2026
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Portkey provides a universal AI gateway, routing, retries, fallbacks, caching, key management, observability, prompt management, guardrails, governance, and MCP security. Teams can use a free developer plan, a paid production plan, an MIT-licensed gateway, or private enterprise deployments.
Teams operating multi-provider AI applications and agents in production
The listed pricing model for Portkey is Freemium. Pricing can change, so users should verify the latest plan details on the official website.
Yes. The current profile indicates that a free trial is available.
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