PortkeyvsFlowise

Full side-by-side comparison — features, pricing, platforms, and which one wins in 2026.

Portkey

LLM APIs & Inference

AI gateway for reliable and fast LLM applications

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Flowise

Automation Platforms

Drag-and-drop LLM flow builder

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FeaturePortkeyFlowise
CategoryLLM APIs & InferenceAutomation Platforms
PricingFree + Pro plansFree (open-source) + Cloud
GitHub Stars
6k
✓ More stars
35k
PlatformsWeb, DockermacOS, Linux, Windows, Docker
Key Features
  • ✓ AI gateway
  • ✓ Fallbacks
  • ✓ Load balancing
  • ✓ Caching
  • ✓ Observability
  • ✓ Visual flow builder
  • ✓ LangChain integration
  • ✓ Chatbot builder
  • ✓ Agent flows
  • ✓ API endpoints
  • ✓ Custom tools
Pros
  • + Automatic fallbacks
  • + Load balancing
  • + Request caching
  • + Observability built-in
  • + Open-source gateway
  • + No-code visual builder
  • + LangChain/LlamaIndex integration
  • + Easy deployment
  • + Good for prototyping
  • + Active community
Cons
  • − Added infrastructure layer
  • − Learning curve
  • − Some features need Pro
  • − Latency overhead
  • − Limited for complex custom logic
  • − Can be buggy with some nodes
  • − Documentation gaps
  • − Less flexible than code
Tags
gatewayreliabilityobservabilityapi
open-sourceno-codelangchainchatbotvisual

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