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Portkey vs Dify

PortkeyDify

Bottom line: Portkey for teams routing production traffic across many LLMs; Dify for teams building LLM apps and agents quickly.

PortkeyPortkey

Open-source AI gateway and control plane for production Gen AI.

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DifyDify

Open-source platform for building production-ready LLM apps and agents.

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryCodingCoding
Tags
ai-gatewayllmopsopen-sourceobservabilitygovernance
llmopsopen-sourceai-agentsragworkflow
Best for
  • Teams routing production traffic across many LLMs
  • Organizations needing governance and reliability tooling
  • Developers wanting an open-source, self-hostable gateway
  • Teams building LLM apps and agents quickly
  • Organizations with data-residency needs
  • Developers who want an open-source, self-hostable stack
Pros
  • Fully open-source, self-hostable gateway for data control and no lock-in
  • Access to more than 1,600 models through one API
  • Broad feature set spanning observability, guardrails, routing, prompts, and cost control
  • Transparent, relatively cheap entry with free and ~$49 tiers
  • Battle-tested at very large scale
  • Genuinely open-source and self-hostable for strong data control
  • All-in-one: workflow, RAG, agents, and prompt IDE in one workspace
  • Low-code visual canvas lowers the barrier to building
  • Broad model and provider support, including self-hosted models
  • Large, active community and a marketplace ecosystem
Cons
  • Adds a network hop and dependency in the critical request path
  • Log-volume-based pricing can get complex or expensive at scale
  • Free-tier logging caps and short retention are tight for real debugging
  • Self-hosting the open-source gateway shifts ops burden to you
  • It is a gateway and ops layer, not a full build-and-eval IDE
  • License is not fully permissive; multi-tenant resale and branding removal are prohibited
  • Real cost is dominated by separate LLM token spend, not the platform fee
  • Message-credit model on paid tiers can feel limiting at scale
  • Self-hosting adds ops and maintenance burden
  • Free tier's one-time credits are essentially a demo allowance

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