
What is Portkey?
Portkey empowers AI teams to observe, govern, and optimize their apps across the entire organization with just 3 lines of code. It offers an AI Gateway, Prompts, Guardrails, & Observability Suite, helping teams ship reliable, cost-efficient, and fast apps. Portkey integrates with Langchain, CrewAI, Autogen, and other major agent frameworks, making agent workflows production-ready. It also provides an MCP client to build AI agents with access to real-world tools.
How to use Portkey?
Integrate Portkey by replacing the OpenAI API base path in your app with Portkey’s API endpoint. Portkey will start routing all your requests to OpenAI, giving you control over everything that’s happening. You can then unlock additional value by managing your prompts & parameters in a single place.
Portkey’s Core Features
AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
Portkey’s Use Cases
- Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- Build agents with access to real-world tools.
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