Comparisons

Pick Portkey for recorded request logs, audit logs, and a data plane in your VPC on your own model keys, and canary its cache changes: one took a production platform down in 2025. Pick OpenRouter to buy 500+ models through one balance with a fee on credit purchases.

Pick Portkey, now Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, for hosted observability priced by recorded logs. Pick LiteLLM for free key budgets in a gateway you run yourself.