Self-Hosted
$0
Perpetual
- Open-source
- Basic observability
- Self-managed
- Community support
Portkey: Observability, Prompts & Evals
Founded 2023|San Francisco, California|11-50 people
What is Portkey?
Portkey Observability is the monitoring and analytics component of the Portkey AI platform, providing comprehensive visibility into LLM applications. The platform tracks requests, costs, latency, errors, and user behavior across all LLM providers. Portkey Observability integrates seamlessly with the Portkey AI Gateway, offering unified monitoring for multi-provider AI applications. The platform provides real-time dashboards, alerting, and detailed trace analysis to help teams optimize AI performance and costs. Portkey processes over 10 billion requests monthly with sub-40ms overhead, providing enterprise-grade observability for production AI systems.
Strengths and tradeoffs
What this tool does well, and the limitations to keep in mind.
Pros
- Enterprise-scale monitoring (10B requests/month)
- Sub-40ms overhead
- Comprehensive analytics and tracing
- Strong security certifications
Cons
- Professional tier expensive (USD 2-5k/mo)
- Open-source has limited features
- Complex for small teams
Plans & pricing
What's included in each plan, and how the tiers compare.
Professional
$2,000-5,000
Per month
- Managed service
- Advanced analytics
- Standard support
- Team features
Enterprise
$10,000+
Per month
- Custom limits
- SOC2, ISO27001
- Priority support
- Private deployment
- SLA guarantees
Using Portkey with Respan
Integrate Portkey Observability with Respan to monitor AI applications across all providers. Track costs, latency, and errors in real-time. Combine Portkey's enterprise-grade monitoring with Respan's multi-provider orchestration for complete visibility.
- Monitor 10B+ requests monthly with 99.9999% uptime
- Track costs and usage across all LLM providers
- Real-time alerts and dashboards
- Detailed trace analysis for debugging
Run Portkey in production with Respan
10KFree traces/mo
1,000+Models
5 minSetup
Respan lets you trace LLM and agent calls across any model or framework, A/B test prompts on production traffic, and route requests across 1,000+ models through one gateway.
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Last verified: March 10, 2026