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Portkey

AI Infrastructure
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An AI gateway that adds routing, caching, observability, and guardrails to LLM traffic through a single control plane.

Overview

Portkey is a managed or self-hostable AI gateway: route requests across providers, fail over automatically, cache responses, enforce guardrails, and get observability and cost analytics on every call. It overlaps with LiteLLM but leans more toward a polished, batteries-included product with built-in dashboards and guardrails. For an enterprise standardizing how dozens of teams call models, a gateway like this is the layer where reliability, cost control, and policy actually get enforced — rather than living in scattered application code.

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Routing, failover, and caching out of the box
  • Built-in observability and cost analytics
  • Guardrails enforced at the gateway
  • Managed or self-hosted

Cons

  • Another vendor in the critical request path
  • Overlaps with observability tools you may already run
  • Full governance features need a paid plan

Workflows that use Portkey

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