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What Portkey really costs, from its own pricing page, and what that means for your LLM bill.
A free Developer tier (10K recorded logs a month), Production from $49 a month (100K logs), and custom Enterprise pricing. The open-source gateway can be self-hosted.
What Portkey charges
A free Developer tier (10K recorded logs a month), Production from $49 a month (100K logs), and custom Enterprise pricing. The open-source gateway can be self-hosted.
An AI gateway built for observability, guardrails and governance.
What Portkey costs at your spend
Portkey doesn't charge a percentage of your model spend. Your costs are the plan price, plus the full price of every token at your model providers.
What the price doesn't include
- The tokens themselves, at your providers' prices.
- The engineering time to set up caching, routing, batching and limits, and to keep them working.
- Any guarantee that your total bill goes down.
Portkey vs apicuts on cost
Portkey is priced for teams whose main problem is governance and visibility across many AI apps. apicuts is priced on results: 10% of the savings we verify, and if your all-in bill isn't at least 20% lower after that fee, you pay nothing. See apicuts pricing or APIcuts vs Portkey.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Portkey cost?
A free Developer tier (10K recorded logs a month), Production from $49 a month (100K logs), and custom Enterprise pricing. The open-source gateway can be self-hosted.
Does Portkey mark up model prices?
No. It charges for its plan, not a percentage of your model spend.
Sources: Portkey's pricing page. Checked October 30, 2026.
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