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

Flowise

Automation Platforms

Drag-and-drop LLM flow builder

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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