Looking for a Portkey Alternative?
Compare LLM Gateway's fully open-source platform, automatic provider routing, and transparent pricing against Portkey's gateway and LLMOps suite.
The best Portkey alternative for teams who want one open platform
Compare LLM Gateway and Portkey features side by side
Why choose LLM Gateway?
LLM Gateway
OPEN-SOURCE & PRODUCTION-READY
From $0
Self-host free forever
Portkey
GATEWAY + LLMOPS PLATFORM
Usage-based
Free tier, then paid plans
Managed cloud
Fully managed, production-ready hosted service
Self-host the full platform
Run the entire stack on your own infrastructure
Open-source license
What ships under an open-source license
One-command Docker deploy
Single image with dashboard, worker, and gateway
Automatic provider scoring
Routes on live uptime, throughput, price, and latency
Failover & retries
Transparent retry on a healthy provider
Load balancing
Spread traffic across providers for a model
Response caching
Built-in caching for repeated requests
Bring your own keys
Use your own provider keys
Transparent platform fee
Predictable, easy-to-reason-about pricing
Real-time cost analytics
Per-request cost tracking in the dashboard
Free to start
Get going without a paid plan
Model coverage
Models and providers available through one API
Image & video generation
Generative media through the same API
Guardrails
Prompt injection, PII, jailbreak, and secret detection
Versioned prompt management
Prompt registry, templates, and deployments
OpenTelemetry & deep tracing
Export traces into an existing observability stack
No credit card required • Self-host option available • Enterprise support included