Portkey AI Gateway Review — Self-Hosted AI Tool
Our review of Portkey AI Gateway — features, strengths, and trade-offs.
Portkey AI Gateway is an open-source, blazing-fast API gateway designed specifically for AI applications. It lets you route requests to 1,600+ LLMs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, open-source models, and more) through a single, unified API endpoint. Built-in features include automatic retries with fallbacks, caching, rate limiting, guardrails, and observability. Portkey is the perfect self-hosted solution for teams that need reliability, cost control, and monitoring across multiple AI providers without vendor lock-in. Deploy it in minutes with Docker on your own infrastructure.