#12 in AI Development PlatformsUpdated 2026-08

Portkey

by Portkey AI Gateway · AI gateway, observability and governance for LLM applications

70 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Portkey is a platform for running LLM applications in production, combining an AI gateway, observability, guardrails, governance and prompt management. Applications call a unified API that routes to 1,600+ models, with fallbacks, load balancing, retries and caching. Logs, traces and costs are recorded in a dashboard, with RBAC, budget limits and audit logs on top.

Best for: Engineering teams putting LLM apps into production and needing central routing, logging and governance.
Pricing: Free Developer tier, $49/month for Production plus $9 per additional 100k requests, custom-priced Enterprise, and a self-hosted open-source option.
Runs on: WebSelf-hosted

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Unified API to 1,600+ LLMs, integrated in about three lines of code
Fallbacks, load balancing, retries and caching on every plan
Free tier plus a self-hostable open-source gateway
RBAC, budget limits and audit logs for multi-team governance

Trade-offs

Free tier is stated as not suitable for production workloads
$49 Production plan excludes custom security controls and data residency
SSO, PII anonymiser and VPC hosting are Enterprise-only
Log overage on Production: $9 per extra 100k requests, up to 3M

Pricing

Published plans from Portkey’s own pricing page, in USD. Usage charges and add-ons may apply on top.

Portkey pricing tiers, monthly rates in USD
Plan	Monthly	Includes
Open Source	—	Host it yourself, deploy locally Universal API, routing, automatic fallbacks, load balancing Retries, timeouts, guardrails, basic dashboard Community support
Developer	—	Free forever; 10k recorded logs per month, no overage allowed 3 days log retention, 30 days metrics 3 prompt templates, playground, versioning Simple caching (1 day TTL), community support
Production	$49flat rate	100k recorded logs per month, +$9 per additional 100k up to 3M 30 days log retention, 90 days metrics LLM and partner guardrails, unlimited prompt templates RBAC, service account API keys, simple and semantic caching
Enterprise	Contact sales	10M+ recorded logs per month, custom retention Custom guardrail hooks and advanced evaluation templates SSO, granular budget and rate limits, org management Private cloud/VPC hosting, SOC2 Type 2, GDPR, HIPAA, custom BAAs

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 92 out of 100
API quality: 35 out of 100
Documentation: 100 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 97 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 100 out of 100
Changelog: 0 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 50 out of 100
Operational trust: 55 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 85 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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