GILD Review

GILD's call and the buying facts behind it.

From GILD research

Should we adopt Portkey?

Will your team run Portkey as a hosted service from Palo Alto Networks, or self-host a gateway that has merged no fixes since May 2026?

30-Second TakePick Portkey if security wants every model call logged, filtered and audited without running a logging stack.
Best fitPlatform teams that call model makers on their own keys and need hosted request logs, guardrails, and Enterprise audit logs, with the data plane in their VPC when required.GILD Review
Consider another workflowIf you want model access bought through one balance, evaluate OpenRouter, which Stripe agreed to acquire on August 19, 2026. If the whole gateway and its logs must run in your own network at no license cost, evaluate LiteLLM.GILD Review

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GILD analysis

Portkey Review

Practitioners credit Portkey with one API, fallbacks, and cost data per request, and file a long run of provider translation and streaming bugs against its open-source gateway. The hosted gateway meters recorded logs on your own model keys, with budgets, SSO, and audit logs on Enterprise. Adopt the hosted or hybrid service with every provider route tested, and get Palo Alto Networks' terms for the legacy plans in writing.

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The decision

Best fit: Platform teams that call model makers on their own keys and need hosted request logs, guardrails, and Enterprise audit logs, with the data plane in their VPC when required.
Consider another workflow: If you want model access bought through one balance, evaluate OpenRouter, which Stripe agreed to acquire on August 19, 2026. If the whole gateway and its logs must run in your own network at no license cost, evaluate LiteLLM.
Adoption condition: Every provider route you depend on tested through the gateway, an Enterprise contract if you need key budgets, SSO, or audit logs, and written terms from Palo Alto Networks on how long the portkey.ai plans last.

Basis: Portkey's pricing page and documentation and Palo Alto Networks' announcement and 10-K, fetched on October 28, 2026, and 56 public accounts from people using Portkey, most of them GitHub issues on the open-source gateway. Buying facts rechecked Oct 31, 2026.

Buying & deployment factsWhat a team building on it should verify before production traffic grows.

How you buy it

US$49 a month

Production includes 100,000 recorded logs; Developer is free for prototypes and Enterprise is custom.

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Details

Portkey.ai plans stay on sale. Developer is free with 10,000 recorded logs a month for prototyping, and Portkey calls it unsuitable for production workloads. Production costs US$49 per month with 100,000 recorded logs. Enterprise is custom, with 10 million or more recorded logs a month. Through its AI gateway, Portkey connects to 1600+ LLMs and providers. Each model maker bills its tokens on your own API keys, which you add in Portkey's Model Catalog. Portkey's docs mark the older virtual keys as deprecated.

Cost drivers

US$9 per 100,000

Production overage on recorded requests up to 3 million a month; logs kept 30 days.

Source 1, Portkey, Portkey pricing: Portkey pricing

Details

Recorded logs drive the bill. Production adds US$9 per additional 100,000 requests up to 3 million a month. Developer allows no overage: requests past its 10,000-log limit still run but are not recorded. Logs are kept 3 days on Developer and 30 days on Production, with custom retention on Enterprise.

Where it runs

Cloud or your VPC

Hybrid Enterprise keeps the data plane in your VPC; the open-source gateway runs on your servers.

Source 4, Portkey, Hybrid deployment: Hybrid deployment Source 1, Portkey, Portkey pricing: Portkey pricing

Details

Portkey cloud by default. A hybrid Enterprise setup runs the data plane in your VPC, keeping LLM traffic in your environment, while Portkey's control plane handles administration, configs, and analytics. Enterprise also offers private cloud and VPC hosting. The open-source gateway runs on your own servers.

What to verify

Enterprise controls

SSO, key budgets, custom retention, and audit logs of admin actions need the Enterprise plan.

Source 2, Portkey, Enterprise offering: Enterprise offering Source 3, Portkey, Audit logs: Audit logs Source 1, Portkey, Portkey pricing: Portkey pricing

Details

SSO with Okta and Microsoft, budget and rate limits on API keys, and custom retention are Enterprise features. Audit logs record who did what to which resource, and when, on the Enterprise plan. Portkey states SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA compliance, with custom BAAs on Enterprise.