Portkey
Compare gateway reliability controls and log retention with model costs kept outside the platform subscription.
- Starting price
- Production USD 49/month
- Free access
- 10,000 recorded logs for prototyping
- Billing unit
- Gateway plan plus model costs
- Platform
- Hosted gateway; optional self-hosting
- Verified
- 27 Oct 2026
Overview
What you provide
- Send supported model requests through the configured gateway with provider credentials and routing rules.
What you get
- The gateway forwards model responses and supplies plan-dependent logs, traces and routing controls.
Choosing this tool
Portkey is useful when an application needs routing, fallbacks and a common view of model calls. Developer is explicitly described as unsuitable for production workloads. Production increases retention and governance, but custom security controls and data-residency guarantees remain an Enterprise discussion. Eden AI and OpenRouter offer alternative unified-model access; compare their fee structure and control surface instead of treating all three as model subscriptions.
A decision worked through
The fixed Production subscription totals USD 588 across twelve monthly payments before usage overages and model bills. A request with retries can generate more upstream work than a single successful user action, so compare dashboard usage and provider invoices before forecasting a total operating cost.
Portkey alternatives for ai gateway routing and observability
Compare Portkey with Eden AI, OpenRouter by the actual task, billing unit and operating responsibility.
| Product | Price / unit | Free allowance | Input → output | Key limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PortkeyRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Production USD 49/month | Developer: 10k recorded logs | Model calls gain routing and traces. | Inference bills are separate. |
| Eden AIRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Model prices + 5.5% credit fee | No general free quota established | One API dispatches supported AI tasks. | Private deployments use custom pricing. |
| OpenRouterRead profileOfficial source ↗ | Standard model rates + 5.5% | Eligible free models have limits | Compatible messages become model responses. | Credit purchase and BYOK terms differ. |
Setup & workflow
- Route a non-sensitive test request through one provider.
- Simulate a provider failure and inspect retries, fallback and resulting charges.
- Roll out routing rules with bounded budgets and an explicit retention policy.
Requirements & installation
- Map provider keys, fallback order and allowed log fields before enabling production routing.
Limits & review
- The pricing page mixes recorded-log and request terminology in its allowance and overage sections. Do not convert the listed fee into a guaranteed per-user or per-token price; verify metering and retention against the actual workload.
Your part
- Set retry limits, budget rules and log redaction before routing sensitive production requests.
Sources & verification5
This profile is based on official sources, not a hands-on product test.
Vendor descriptions and demos document advertised features. Editorial guidance is based on these sources.
- Official Portkey pricingportkey.ai
- Official Portkey productportkey.ai
- Portkey official referenceportkey.ai
- Eden AI official referenceedenai.co
- OpenRouter official referenceopenrouter.ai
