“Portkey - This has been a real life-saver trying to debug LLM requests at times.”
LLM APIMaker says so · source ↗
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.txtCLIWhere 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.
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.
Reliability and open issues
- [Feature] NeuralTrust TrustGuard👍 15 · opened Aug 2026 · active Aug 2026
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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 ↗