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Portkey AI Gateway vs LiteLLM: catalog facts
Portkey AI Gateway	LiteLLM
Freemium The gateway is free and open source under MIT; Portkey sells hosted and enterprise…	Free Free to download and self-host.
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
One API for a large number of model providers Automatic retries, fallbacks and load balancing	One OpenAI-style API for over 100 providers Cost tracking, load balancing and logging built in
Aimed at developers building AI applications, not end users Version 2.0 is still a pre-release	You run and maintain the gateway yourself Aimed at developers and teams rather than end users
Self-hosted, Hosted service	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: MIT	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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