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Kong AI Gateway vs Portkey
Compare Kong AI Gateway and Portkey side by side. Both are tools in the LLM Gateways category.
Quick Comparison
| Category | LLM Gateways | LLM Gateways |
| Pricing | Enterprise | Freemium |
| Best For | Enterprises using Kong who want to extend their API gateway with AI capabilities | Engineering teams who need a reliable, observable gateway for production LLM applications |
| Website | konghq.com | portkey.ai |
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When to Choose Kong AI Gateway vs Portkey
- Enterprise AI API management
- Load balancing across LLM providers
- AI traffic governance and security
- Enterprise LLM deployment with reliability
- Multi-provider failover and load balancing
- Cost reduction through semantic caching
About Kong AI Gateway
Kong AI Gateway extends the popular Kong API gateway with AI-specific capabilities including multi-LLM routing, prompt engineering, semantic caching, rate limiting, and cost management.
About Portkey
Portkey is an AI gateway that provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs with built-in reliability features including automatic retries, fallbacks, load balancing, and caching. The platform includes observability with detailed request logs, cost tracking, and performance analytics. Portkey also offers guardrails, access controls, and virtual keys for managing LLM usage across teams.
What is LLM Gateways?
Unified API platforms and proxies that aggregate multiple LLM providers behind a single endpoint, providing model routing, fallback, caching, rate limiting, cost optimization, and access control.
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