Portkey review

The Free Developer plan is free forever, the Production plan runs on a monthly subscription, and Enterprise pricing is custom, with extra charges once a plan's request limit is passed. For scale, the median entry price across the gateways compared here is €5.83.

Portkey routes across from 1,600 providers. The median across gateways in this category is 9, so the catalogue is wide enough for apps that switch models or fall back between them.

Yes. Bring your own key is supported, so provider credentials stay in the buyer's own accounts rather than being resold through the gateway. Requests still route across from 1,600 providers on the same endpoint.

Portkey offers an OpenAI-compatible API, so most OpenAI-style client code can be repointed at the gateway while routing across from 1,600 providers. That avoids rewriting the integration and keeps failover options open.

Support runs on help centre and community only, meaning a help centre and community. Buyers who need direct human contact for a production incident have fewer options here, so that limitation is worth weighing before signing.

Portkey is run by Portkey, Inc and based in the United States, so contracts and Enterprise pricing are handled by a US entity. Buyers outside the US should confirm invoicing and renewal terms before committing to a Production or Enterprise plan.

LiteLLM is open-source and self-hostable under an MIT licence, with Enterprise annual licences priced on gateway request capacity rather than per token. Portkey runs as a hosted gateway with a free tier, so the choice turns on self-hosting versus managed plans.

Portkey fits developers and small teams that route many providers through one endpoint and hold their own keys, since bring-your-own-key is supported across from 1,600 providers. A free tier covers prototyping, while the paid Production plan suits steady production traffic.