Portkey AI
AI gateway + observability — load balancing across 200+ LLMs, retries, caching, eval, prompts. Open-source Gateway + commercial Portkey Cloud. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (closed about 2026-06); now sold as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway (GA 2026-07-16).
Acquired · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 24 cited facts, 3 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Production AI gateway vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Section
- Inference platforms & gateways
- Latest release
- v1.15.2 (2026-01-12) — gateway repo fix
- License
- MIT (Gateway) vendor fix
- Pricing
- Open-source gateway free (self-host); Developer free (10K logs/mo); Production $49/mo (100K logs, $9 per extra 100K up to 3M); Enterprise custom vendor fix
- Funding
- Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (closed about 2026-06; terms not disclosed in the GA post); previously $3M seed 2024 (Lightspeed India + Y Combinator). third-party fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- model-infra repo fix
- SDK languages
- python, rest, typescript repo fix
- Protocols
- openai-compatible repo fix
- Compliance
- gdpr, hipaa, iso27001 vendor fix
- Developer activity
- OpenRank 1.95 (12-mo avg 7.18) · 44 participants — 2026-09 third-party fix
When to use
Optimised for: searched not found
Anti-fit: searched not found
Pros & cons
Pros
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Cons
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Claims & capabilities
Seed-funded; OSS + Cloud.
Technical surface
- API surface
- Python SDK, Node SDK, gateway HTTP API
- Backend storage
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Deployment
- Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS gateway self-hosted or Portkey cloud
- Embedding model
- not applicable — not a memory product
- Multi-tenancy
- searched not found
- MCP
- yes — MCP Gateway product (unified layer to access and govern MCP tools)
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- searched not found
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Sources (23 cited facts, 3 third-party)
Each fact links to the page it came from; the badge says who published it (how to read sources).
- What it is Production AI gateway vendor
- What it does & what's distinct AI gateway + observability — load balancing across 200+ LLMs, retries, caching, eval, pr… third-party
- Claims / benefits Seed-funded; OSS + Cloud. vendor
- Created 2023 vendor
- Latest release v1.15.2 (2026-01-12) — gateway repo
- License MIT (Gateway) vendor
- GitHub Portkey-AI/gateway — ~13.3k stars, last commit 2026-05 repo
- Funding Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (closed about 2026-06; terms not disclosed in the GA post… third-party
- Pricing Open-source gateway free (self-host); Developer free (10K logs/mo); Production $49/mo (1… vendor
- Deployment Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS gateway self-hosted or Portkey cloud vendor
- HQ IN/US vendor
- Founders / pedigree Rohit Agarwal (CEO), Ayush Garg; founded 2023 (Bengaluru). vendor
- Code/weights release Active — last commit 2026-03 · 11,697★ repo
- API surface Python SDK, Node SDK, gateway HTTP API registry
- MCP support yes — MCP Gateway product (unified layer to access and govern MCP tools) vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus hybrid repo
- licensing-bucket open-core vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product platform vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup model-infra repo
- developer-activity-opendigger {"activity":61.4,"as_of":"2026-09","openrank_12mo":7.18,"openrank_current":1.95,"partici… third-party
- compliance-certifications gdpr,hipaa,iso27001 vendor
- sdk-languages python,rest,typescript repo
- protocol-support openai-compatible repo
What changed
Changes to this record's lifecycle, licence, release, pricing and hosting facts, from the catalog's git history. Subscribe (Atom)
- 2026-10-29
- Funding / ownership “$3M seed 2024 (Lightspeed India + Y Combinator); OSS + Cloud gateway/observability.” → “Acquired by Palo Alto Networks (closed about 2026-06; terms not disclosed in the GA post); previously $3M seed 2024 (Lightspeed India + Y Combinator).” source
- 2026-10-27
- Latest release first recorded as “v1.15.2 (2026-01-12) — gateway” source
- Pricing first recorded as “Open-source gateway free (self-host); Developer free (10K logs/mo); Production $49/mo (100K logs, $9 per extra 100K up to 3M); Enterprise custom” source
- Deployment first recorded as “Both (self-hosted + managed cloud) — OSS gateway self-hosted or Portkey cloud” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — MCP Gateway product (unified layer to access and govern MCP tools)” source
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- 01.AI Yi family integrates with — Portkey docs have a Lingyi (01.ai) LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Acuvity (now Proofpoint) integrates with — Portkey docs have an Acuvity guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anthropic Claude (foundation models) integrates with — Portkey docs have an Anthropic LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anthropic Computer Use integrates with — Portkey docs have an Anthropic Computer Use app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Anyscale integrates with — Portkey docs have an Anyscale LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize AI integrates with — Portkey docs have an Arize AX tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Arize Phoenix integrates with — Portkey docs have an Arize Phoenix tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AutoGen / AG2 integrates with — Portkey docs have an Autogen agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- AWS SageMaker integrates with — Portkey docs have an AWS SageMaker LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Bedrock AgentCore (AWS) integrates with — Portkey docs have an AWS AgentCore agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Calypso AI (now F5 AI Guardrails) integrates with — Portkey docs have a F5 Guardrails guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Claude Agent SDK integrates with — Portkey docs have a Claude Agent SDK agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Claude Code (Anthropic) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Claude Code app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cline (harness) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Cline app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cohere Command R+ / Command A integrates with — Portkey docs have a Cohere LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Continue.dev integrates with — Portkey docs have a Continue.dev app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- CrewAI integrates with — Portkey docs have a CrewAI agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Cursor (IDE) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Cursor app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- DeepSeek R1 / V3 family integrates with — Portkey docs have a DeepSeek LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- DSPy integrates with — Portkey docs have a DSPy app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Fireworks AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Fireworks LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- GitHub Copilot (Agent Mode) integrates with — Portkey docs have a GitHub Copilot app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Google Gemini 3 family integrates with — Portkey docs have a Google Gemini LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Goose (Block) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Goose app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Jamba (AI21 Labs) integrates with — Portkey docs have an AI21 LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Jina AI Embeddings integrates with — Portkey docs have a Jina AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Lakera Guard / Lakera Red integrates with — Portkey docs have a Lakera guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangChain (framework) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Langchain Agents agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langflow integrates with — Portkey docs have a Langflow app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Langfuse integrates with — Portkey docs have a Langfuse tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangGraph (orchestration) integrates with — Portkey docs have a LangGraph agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LangSmith integrates with — Portkey docs have a Langsmith tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Lasso Security integrates with — Portkey docs have a Lasso Security guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LiveKit Agents integrates with — Portkey docs have a LiveKit agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- LlamaIndex (framework) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Llama Agents by Llamaindex agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mastra integrates with — Portkey docs have a Mastra Agents agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Microsoft Semantic Kernel integrates with — Portkey docs have a Microsoft Semantic Kernel app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Milvus integrates with — Portkey docs have a Milvus vector database integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Mistral Large 2 / Mixtral family integrates with — Portkey docs have a Mistral AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- MLflow integrates with — Portkey docs have an MLflow Tracing tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Modal integrates with — Portkey docs have a Modal Labs LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- n8n (AI agent flows) integrates with — Portkey docs have a n8n app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Nomic Embed integrates with — Portkey docs have a Nomic LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Agents SDK integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenAI Agents SDK (Python) agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Codex CLI integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenAI Codex app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI GPT family (GPT-5 / GPT-4o / o3 / o4) integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenAI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenAI Swarm (deprecated) integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenAI Swarm agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Opencode (SST) integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenCode app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenLLMetry (Traceloop) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Traceloop (OpenLLMetry) tracing provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenRouter integrates with — Portkey docs have an OpenRouter LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Patronus AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Patronus AI guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Portkey docs have an Agno AI agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pillar Security integrates with — Portkey docs have a Pillar guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Promptfoo integrates with — Portkey docs have a Promptfoo app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Protect AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS guardrails integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Pydantic-AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Pydantic AI agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Qdrant integrates with — Portkey docs have a Qdrant vector database integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Reka Core / Flash / Edge integrates with — Portkey docs have a Reka AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Replicate integrates with — Portkey docs have a Replicate LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Roo Code integrates with — Portkey docs have a Roo Code app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Salesforce Agentforce integrates with — Portkey docs have a Salesforce Agentforce app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Strands Agents (AWS) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Strands Agents agent framework integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Supabase Vector integrates with — Portkey docs have a Supabase app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Together AI integrates with — Portkey docs have a Together AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — Portkey docs have a Vercel AI SDK app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
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- Voyage AI (MongoDB) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Voyage AI LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- xAI Grok 4 integrates with — Portkey docs have an xAI (Grok) LLM provider integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Zed (Agentic Editing) integrates with — Portkey docs have a Zed app/library integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
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- Langfuse integrates with — Langfuse's integrations directory has a Portkey AI integration page. (verified 2026-10-29)
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- OpenAI Agents SDK integrates with — OpenAI Agents SDK tracing docs list Portkey AI under external tracing processors. (verified 2026-10-29)
- OpenInference integrates with — The OpenInference repo README lists an OpenInference instrumentation package for Portkey AI. (verified 2026-10-29)
- Phidata (now Agno) integrates with — Agno ships a portkey model provider module (agno.models.portkey). (verified 2026-10-29)
- Vercel AI SDK integrates with — AI SDK docs have a Portkey community provider page. (verified 2026-10-29)