# Portkey — Managed AI gateway

Pricing: Free tier; paid from ~$49/mo

## Verdict

Managed gateway with the strongest built-in semantic caching, plus guardrails, routing, and cost analytics. The low-ops route to the same control points LiteLLM gives you self-hosted.

## Strengths

- Semantic + simple caching out of the box
- Config-driven routing, retries, fallbacks without code changes
- Good cost dashboards with per-metadata breakdowns

## Limitations

- Your traffic transits a third party (self-hosted enterprise option exists)
- Costs money at scale — model the gateway fee against the savings

Website: https://portkey.ai

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