portkey.ai
PaidProduction Stack for Gen AI Builders
About portkey.ai
Portkey empowers AI teams to observe, govern, and optimize their apps across the entire organization with just 3 lines of code. It offers an AI Gateway, Prompts, Guardrails, & Observability Suite, helping teams ship reliable, cost-efficient, and fast apps. Portkey integrates with Langchain, CrewAI, Autogen, and other major agent frameworks, making agent workflows production-ready. It also provides an MCP client to build AI agents with access to real-world tools.
How to Use
Integrate Portkey by replacing the OpenAI API base path in your app with Portkey's API endpoint. Portkey will start routing all your requests to OpenAI, giving you control over everything that's happening. You can then unlock additional value by managing your prompts & parameters in a single place.
Key Features
- AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
- Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
- Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
- Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
- MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
Use Cases
- Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- Build agents with access to real-world tools.
Key Features
Pros & Cons
- Easy integration with just 3 lines of code
- Significant cost savings through caching (as validated by customer testimonials)
- Comprehensive observability for debugging and monitoring
- Supports 250+ LLMs with a single unified API
- Open source with strong community (high GitHub stars)
- Scalable from free prototyping to enterprise-grade deployments with custom security and compliance
- Free tier has limitations: 10k recorded logs per month, 3-day log retention, no advanced guardrails or governance
- Production plan ($49/month) lacks custom security controls and data residency guarantees
- Enterprise tier required for advanced compliance (SOC2, HIPAA, VPC hosting) – custom pricing
- Some features (e.g., advanced evaluations, private cloud) are only available in the custom Enterprise plan
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