# Portkey Portkey is an [[AI Gateway]] with 250+ models behind one interface, sold as the production-grade option for teams that need governance rather than a cheap route. It ships in two halves: an open-source gateway you can self-host, and a managed control plane with observability, prompt management, guardrails and budgets. ## What sets it apart Compliance is the actual product. Portkey is ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certified, GDPR and HIPAA compliant, and encrypts data with AES-256 in transit and at rest. Enterprise customers can turn off storage of request and response bodies entirely, which is the setting most companies actually need before they can put a gateway in the path of customer data. It runs on edge workers worldwide and adds roughly 20 to 40 ms of latency. The free managed plan covers 10k requests per month. ## When to reach for it Pick Portkey when a compliance team has to sign off on the architecture. That is a genuinely different problem from picking the cheapest token price, and most of the gateway market ignores it. [[Cheaper Inference]] and [[Ramp Router]] optimize cost; Portkey optimizes for the review meeting where someone asks who holds the data and which certification covers it. If you would rather run everything yourself, [[LiteLLM]] covers similar ground with more operational work and no vendor. If you only need visibility on top of a single provider, [[Helicone]] is the lighter answer. ## References - Documentation: https://docs.portkey.ai/ - AI Gateway product docs: https://portkey.ai/docs/product/ai-gateway - Open-source gateway repository: https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway - Pricing: https://portkey.ai/pricing ## Related - [[AI Gateway]] - [[Model routing]] - [[AI Guardrails]] - [[AI Observability]] - [[LiteLLM]] - [[Helicone]] - [[Vercel AI Gateway]] - [[Cheaper Inference]] - [[Ramp Router]]