Portkey

AI gateway and control layer for LLM apps, unifying routing, observability, guardrails, prompt management and governance across 1,600+ models.

Works with AI agents:llms.txtCLI
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Where it fits

How Portkey itself is built

2 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

Who uses it

2 makers' products, each linked to the source that shows it, and 3 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

The maker says so 1Subprocessor list 1Declared in code 3How evidence is collected →
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“Portkey - This has been a real life-saver trying to debug LLM requests at times.”

LLM APIMaker says so · source ↗

Open source: a project that declares Portkey as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

What makers say

1 makers on why they use Portkey, in their own words on Product Hunt.

Portkey - This has been a real life-saver trying to debug LLM requests at times.
My AskAIJun 2024 ↗

Reliability and open issues

Most wanted on GitHubOpen on 2026-10-04 in Portkey-AI/gateway, with activity in the last year — issues and feature requests by 👍.

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Questions makers ask about Portkey

Is Portkey free?

Yes — there is a free tier a small product can run on; paid use starts at $49/mo. source ↗

Is Portkey open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with Portkey?

It serves an llms.txt docs index; it has an official CLI (portkey).

Who uses Portkey?

2 makers' products we track, each with a source, and 3 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗