Portkey

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Heat Score

7-Day Change

-19

A.R.C. Grade

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Pricing

freemium

Portkey is an AI gateway that routes requests across 200+ language models with automatic fallbacks, load balancing, and caching for production LLM applications.

AI gateway for production LLM apps. Routes requests across 200+ models, adds automatic fallbacks, load balancing, caching, and a unified observability dashboard for cost and latency tracking.

What the signals say about Portkey

Portkey holds a HookFlow heat score of 18/100 in Developer Tools, currently showing cooling interest after an earlier surge. Over the last 7 days its score moved -19 points (down), -5 over 30 days. On the Lock-In Index it scores 100/100 (high lock-in, with significant switching cost).

Heat Score

0–100 viral momentum index combining social buzz, search trends & growth velocity

14-day trend

-1

24h

-19

-5

30d

Computed from 1 live source in the latest pipeline run — more sources, higher confidence.

Heat Score Breakdown

Creator Buzz (30%)3

Search Interest (25%)67

Community Discussion (20%)2

Growth Momentum (25%)0

What is an AI gateway and why use one?

An AI gateway sits between your application and language models, managing request routing, failover, and optimization. Portkey provides this functionality for production LLM apps, handling routing across 200+ models and implementing automatic fallbacks to reduce downtime.

How does Portkey handle model failover?

Portkey includes automatic fallback capabilities that route requests to alternative models when your primary choice is unavailable or experiencing issues, improving application reliability.

What observability features does Portkey provide?

Portkey offers a unified observability dashboard that tracks cost and latency metrics across your LLM requests, enabling monitoring and optimization of production deployments.

What load balancing options does Portkey include?

Portkey provides load balancing capabilities to distribute requests across multiple models, helping optimize performance and resource utilization in production environments.

Does Portkey offer a free plan?

Portkey operates on a freemium pricing model, offering both free and paid tiers for different usage levels.

A.R.C. Score

A.R.C. ratings are calculated for developer infrastructure and API-first tools. This tool hasn't been evaluated yet or falls outside the A.R.C. scope.

🔓Data Lock-In Index

100/ 100

Lower = more portable. 0 = fully open, 100 = maximum lock-in.

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Pricing

freemium

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