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OpenRouterPortkey AI Gateway
Paid

Pay-as-you-go pricing per model, with no subscriptions.

 Freemium

The gateway is free and open source under MIT; Portkey sells hosted and enterprise…

Web Self-hosted
  • One API for over 500 models
  • Automatic fallback between providers
  • One API for a large number of model providers
  • Automatic retries, fallbacks and load balancing
  • Adds a third party between you and the model provider
  • Requires an account and prepaid usage
  • Aimed at developers building AI applications, not end users
  • Version 2.0 is still a pre-release
Web application, Hosted service Self-hosted, Hosted service
Closed source Open source
License not stated License: MIT
Account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Needs internet Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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