Introduction: Control Panel for AI Apps with Portkey's AI Gateway, Guardrails, and Observability Suite.
Added on: Jan 21, 2025
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What is portkey.ai

Portkey provides a comprehensive control panel for AI applications, enabling teams to ship reliable, cost-efficient, and fast apps. With features like AI Gateway, Guardrails, and Observability Suite, Portkey ensures seamless integration and management of AI models in production environments.

How to Use portkey.ai

  1. Replace the OpenAI API base path in your app with Portkey's API endpoint.
  2. Start routing all your requests to OpenAI through Portkey.
  3. Manage prompts, parameters, and monitor performance from a single control panel.

Use Cases of portkey.ai

Portkey is designed for teams building AI applications that require reliable, scalable, and efficient management of AI models. It is particularly useful for applications that need to monitor costs, quality, and latency, and those that require fallbacks, load balancing, retries, and caching.

Features of portkey.ai

  • Monitor costs, quality, and latency

    Get insights from 40+ metrics and debug with detailed logs and traces.

  • Route to 200+ LLMs, reliably

    Call any LLM with a single endpoint and setup fallbacks, load balancing, retries, cache, and canary tests effortlessly.

  • Build and deploy effective prompts

    Collaboratively develop the best prompts and deploy them from a single place without using git.

  • Enforce reliable LLM behaviour with guardrails

    Synchronously run Guardrails on your requests to ensure predictable and reliable LLM behavior.

  • Put your agents in prod

    Integrate with Langchain, CrewAI, Autogen, and other major agent frameworks to make your agent workflows production-ready.

  • Build agents with access to real-world tools

    Use Portkey's MCP client to build AI agents that can call 1,000+ verified tools and take up any task in natural language.

FAQs from portkey.ai

1

How does Portkey work?

You can 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 to give you control of everything that's happening. You can then unlock additional value by managing your prompts & parameters in a single place.
2

How do you store my data?

Portkey is ISO:27001 and SOC 2 certified. We're also GDPR compliant. We maintain the best practices involving security of our services, data storage and retrieval. All your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. For enterprises, we offer managed hosting to deploy Portkey inside private clouds.
3

Will this slow down my app?

No, we actively benchmark to check for any additional latency due to Portkey. With the built-in smart caching, automatic fail-over and edge compute layers - your users might even notice an overall improvement in your app experience.