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Portkey vs Together AI

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Bottom line: Portkey for teams routing production traffic across many LLMs; Together AI for cost-conscious teams on open models.

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

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Inference, fine-tuning, and GPU clusters for open models.

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PricingFreemiumFreemium
CategoryCodingCoding
Tags
ai-gatewayllmopsopen-sourceobservabilitygovernance
inferencefine-tuninggpu-cloudopen-sourcellm-api
Best for
  • Teams routing production traffic across many LLMs
  • Organizations needing governance and reliability tooling
  • Developers wanting an open-source, self-hostable gateway
  • Cost-conscious teams on open models
  • ML teams that fine-tune
  • Startups scaling inference volume
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
  • Large catalog of open and open-weight models
  • Competitive per-token pricing
  • Fine-tuning with weight ownership
  • Dedicated GPU clusters for scale
  • OpenAI-compatible API
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
  • Broad pricing surface across several product lines
  • You own quality and safety evaluation of open models
  • Dedicated clusters require commitment and planning
  • Less turnkey than closed frontier APIs
  • Model catalog and prices change over time

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