Editorial note
Portkey is a strong pick when the challenge is controlling AI systems in production rather than building the first prompt demo.
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Tool profile
An AI gateway and control plane for managing, observing, and routing production model traffic.
Portkey is built for teams that need governance, routing, and observability around AI traffic in production. It fits best when the problem is not model access alone, but controlling cost, reliability, logs, and policy at the gateway layer.
Editorial note
Portkey is a strong pick when the challenge is controlling AI systems in production rather than building the first prompt demo.
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Pricing snapshot
Portkey has a Free Forever tier. Production starts around $49/month, includes 100K logs and 100K requests per gateway, and additional 100K requests are about $9. Enterprise is custom.
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