Portkey
The Control Panel for AI Apps
Overview
Portkey acts as a centralized gateway for all LLM API calls, providing a suite of tools to manage and optimize AI applications. It offers deep observability into requests, responses, and performance, along with features like smart routing to different models, fallback logic for improved reliability, and semantic caching to reduce costs and latency. Portkey also includes security features like prompt sanitization and access control, serving as a comprehensive control panel for building and scaling production-grade AI apps.
✨ Key Features
- AI Gateway & Load Balancing
- LLM Observability & Logging
- Smart Routing & Fallbacks
- Semantic Caching
- Prompt Library & Management
- Cost Management & Budgeting
- Security & Compliance Guardrails
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Acts as a full-featured AI gateway, not just an observability tool
- Advanced routing, fallback, and caching capabilities
- Unified API for interacting with multiple LLM providers
- Strong focus on production reliability and performance
Unique Value: Portkey provides a centralized control panel to manage the reliability, performance, and cost of AI applications, enabling teams to ship faster and with greater confidence.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Implementing a resilient AI feature that automatically falls back to a different model if the primary one fails
- Using semantic caching to serve instant responses for frequently asked questions
- Load balancing traffic across multiple OpenAI API keys
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Core ML experiment tracking for model training
- Deep, offline model validation and testing
🏆 Alternatives
While observability tools like Helicone and Langfuse focus on logging and debugging, Portkey takes a more active role by providing gateway features like routing, caching, and fallbacks, which directly improve application resilience and efficiency.
💻 Platforms
🔌 Integrations
🛟 Support Options
- ✓ Email Support
- ✓ Live Chat
- ✓ Dedicated Support (Enterprise tier)
🔒 Compliance & Security
💰 Pricing
Free tier: Free plan with 10,000 requests/month.
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