Portkey

Palo Alto Networks

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An AI gateway putting one endpoint in front of 1,600+ models, with observability, guardrails and prompt management. No lifecycle review is recorded for this listing. Its inclusion in the directory does not confirm current availability; check the vendor before relying on it.

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Overview

Portkey is an AI gateway: one endpoint in front of 1,600-plus models, with observability, guardrails and prompt management layered on, so that switching provider or logging every call is configuration rather than a rewrite. The underlying idea is simple and sound — your application talks to one interface, and routing, retries, caching, fallbacks and cost accounting happen behind it.

The thing to know before adopting it is that the name is changing. The site now says "Portkey is now PRISMA AIRS AI Gateway", generally available for enterprises: the product has been folded into Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS line. That is not a shutdown notice, but it does mean the roadmap, pricing and security posture now belong to a large security vendor rather than a standalone startup. And a gateway is a dependency in a specific way — it sees your prompts and your keys, so its own reliability and data handling become part of your risk surface, which is the argument for the self-hosted option. Treat the model count as a feature-list number rather than a quality signal.

Sources

The factual claims in this review were read from the pages below. Each date is when an editor last opened the source, not when the product changed.

Vendor site Checked 2026-09-19

Pros / Cons

Pros

Provider swaps become configuration instead of a code change
Logging, guardrails and prompt management in one control plane
Self-hosting addresses the fact that the gateway sees your prompts and keys

Cons

The product is being folded into Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS, so the roadmap and pricing are changing hands
As a control plane it sees your prompts and API keys
The 1,600-model figure describes breadth, not the quality of any model

Who it's for

Routing one application across several model providers

Logging and cost accounting for production LLM traffic

Applying input and output guardrails centrally

Managing prompts without hard-coding them

Bottom line

A sensible way to stop hard-coding one model vendor — with the caveat that the product is mid-acquisition and a gateway sees everything you send it.

Key Features

Unified API across 1,600+ models

Observability and logging

Guardrails on inputs and outputs

Prompt management

Caching, retries and fallbacks

Frequently asked questions

Is Portkey currently available?

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What is Portkey?

Portkey is a AI Platforms tool developed by Palo Alto Networks. It was introduced in 2023, and its developer is headquartered in San Francisco, USA. An AI gateway putting one endpoint in front of 1,600+ models, with observability, guardrails and prompt management.