Portkey AI Free Gateway and Pricing Guide
Portkey AI is an API gateway and observability platform for production LLM apps, commonly used to route across OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, and other providers. It fits teams that already manage several model keys and need logs, caching, retries, budget controls, and fallback policies. Free tier limits, request volume, log retention, and team features vary by plan; actual token cost still depends on upstream providers or Portkey billing settings.
🎁 Free Tier
Daily Limit: Free developer plan / trial gateway usage is available; request volume, logs, and team features depend on current plan
| Model | Context | Limit | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| openai/gpt-4o-mini | upstream provider dependent | Portkey plan and upstream provider dependent | Common route for testing gateway logs and fallback policies |
| anthropic/claude-3-5-haiku | upstream provider dependent | Portkey plan and upstream provider dependent | Useful for testing cross-provider routing policies |
| google/gemini-1.5-flash | upstream provider dependent | Portkey plan and upstream provider dependent | Useful for multimodal or long-context fallback experiments |
🔑 Free API
Free Credits: Free gateway/developer tier recorded; model tokens still depend on your upstream provider keys or Portkey plan
Rate Limit: Portkey plan plus upstream provider quota; verify logs, cache, retries, and spend controls before automation
Portkey AI is an LLM gateway and observability platform focused on unified keys, routing, caching, logs, retries, and cost controls; its free tier helps build provider fallback but does not automatically mean free model tokens.