Portkey by Portkey AI
AI gateway with routing, fallbacks, caching, guardrails, prompt management and observability.
LLM gateways and routers Open source
Price
Free plan
paid plans from $49/mo
Free tier
Yes
Developer: 10k recorded logs/month, 3-day log retention
SDK downloads
925K
npm portkey-ai · PyPI portkey-ai
Pricing
| Free tier | Developer: 10k recorded logs/month, 3-day log retention |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month |
| Usage price | Production $49/month for 100k recorded logs; +$9 per additional 100k requests (up to 3M) |
| Good to know | Gateway is open source and self-hostable with no request limit. Exceeding the free log limit does not block requests, only logging. Portkey offers an MCP gateway for your servers rather than its own MCP server. |
From the official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | None found |
|---|---|
| npm | npm install portkey-ai |
| PyPI | pip install portkey-ai |
| GitHub | Portkey-AI/gateway · 13.2K stars · last push May 25, 2026 |
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