Portkey alternatives
Depot pick for production AI gateway (fallbacks, virtual keys, budgets). OpenRouter when you want a model…
Overall 8.31 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: multi-model-router, llm-tracing, cost-monitoring, llm-input-guardrails, llm-ai-gateway, prompt-caching-optimization, llm-rate-limit-shield, llm-cost-anomaly-alerts
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter Best multi-model router for agents that need failover and experimentation. Pin providers in production; don’t… | same_jtbd_pick, same_jtbd_runner · multi-model-router, cost-monitoring, llm-ai-gateway | 8high | -0.31 | 2026-09-14 |
| Langfuse Depot default observability for most agent teams: open, affordable, good enough to serious. | same_jtbd_pick, same_jtbd_runner · llm-tracing, cost-monitoring, llm-cost-anomaly-alerts | 8.66high | +0.35 | 2026-09-14 |
| Vantage Depot pick for unified cloud+GPU+LLM FinOps. Helicone/Langfuse still own request-path token tracing; Vantage… | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · cost-monitoring, llm-cost-anomaly-alerts | 8.42high | +0.11 | 2026-09-14 |
| Cloudflare AI Gateway Free edge gateway peer to Portkey/OpenRouter. Depot llm-ai-gateway pick stays Portkey for virtual… | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · llm-ai-gateway, llm-rate-limit-shield | 8.41high | +0.1 | 2026-09-14 |
| Arthur AI Monitoring/evals peer with a real $60 Premium. Prefer Braintrust/Langfuse for tracing defaults; Arthur when… | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · llm-input-guardrails, runtime-llm-firewall | 7.89high | -0.42 | 2026-09-14 |
| Anthropic Depot default for serious coding and production agents. Prefer Sonnet for cost/quality; reserve Opus for hard… | same_jtbd_pick · prompt-caching-optimization | 8.42high | +0.11 | 2026-10-19 |
| NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails When OpenAI Moderation taxonomy is not enough and you need programmable rails. Host Llama Guard on Groq for… | same_jtbd_pick · llm-input-guardrails | 7.87high | -0.44 | 2026-09-14 |
| Helicone Maintenance mode since 2026-03-03 (Mintlify); site now says 'no longer part of Mintlify'. Runner-up only, not a pick. | same_jtbd_runner · llm-tracing, cost-monitoring, llm-ai-gateway | 8.13high | -0.18 | 2026-10-19 |
| Lakera Guard Depot pick for a dedicated prompt-injection firewall in front of any LLM. NeMo when you need programmable… | same_jtbd_runner · llm-input-guardrails, runtime-llm-firewall | 8.21high | -0.1 | 2026-09-14 |
| Vercel AI Gateway Best when the app already ships on Vercel/AI SDK. Portkey remains production-gateway default; OpenRouter for… | same_jtbd_runner · llm-ai-gateway, llm-rate-limit-shield | 8.21high | -0.1 | 2026-09-14 |
| Guardrails AI OSS programmable rails peer to NeMo Guardrails. Lakera when you want a hosted injection firewall API… | same_jtbd_runner · llm-input-guardrails, runtime-llm-firewall | 8.2medium | -0.11 | 2026-09-14 |
| Amazon Bedrock Enterprise multi-model switchboard. Great when AWS is mandatory; mediocre when you just want the best Claude… | same_jtbd_runner · multi-model-router, prompt-caching-optimization | 7.75high | -0.56 | 2026-09-14 |
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