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Portkey

Portkey

AI gateway for production LLM apps

Portkey provides an AI gateway with caching, fallbacks, load balancing, guardrails, and observability for LLM applications. Production reliability for AI apps.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

The gateway approach adds caching, fallbacks, and guardrails without code changes. Production AI apps need this layer.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Reliability features — caching, retries, fallbacks — are table stakes for production AI. Portkey makes them easy.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

AI gateways will be standard infrastructure. Portkey's focus on reliability and guardrails addresses real production needs.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,665 mentions
67% positive22% neutral11% negative
Hacker News310 mentions
69%22%9%

The guardrails feature is underrated — blocks prompt injection before it reaches your LLM

Reddit480 mentions
67%23%10%

Portkey caching cut our OpenAI bill by 30% on repeated queries — no brainer

Twitter/X700 mentions
64%24%12%

Switched from LiteLLM to Portkey for the observability — both solid but different tradeoffs

Product Hunt175 mentions
72%18%10%

Production-grade AI gateway with real fallback logic — finally built for teams not hobbyists