Portkey

AI gateway for reliable and fast LLM applications

⭐6,000
LLM APIs & InferenceFree + Pro plans
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About Portkey

Portkey is an AI gateway that makes LLM applications reliable and fast. It provides automatic fallbacks, load balancing, caching, rate limiting, and observability for production AI applications.

Features

✦AI gateway
✦Fallbacks
✦Load balancing
✦Caching
✦Observability

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • +Automatic fallbacks
  • +Load balancing
  • +Request caching
  • +Observability built-in
  • +Open-source gateway

Cons

  • −Added infrastructure layer
  • −Learning curve
  • −Some features need Pro
  • −Latency overhead

Platforms

WebDocker

Tags

#gateway#reliability#observability#api

Related AI Concepts

API

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