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portkey.ai
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AI gateway and observability suite for governing and optimizing LLM apps; strong dev-tool traffic.
266K visits/mo
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metaflow.org
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Open-source Python framework, born at Netflix, for building, scaling, and deploying real-world ML, AI, and data science workflows.
20K visits/mo
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Helicone
✓ verifiedFreemium
LLM observability platform and AI gateway that lets teams route, log, debug and analyze their model requests.
100K visits/mo
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liteLLM
✓ verifiedFreemium
Open-source AI gateway giving dev teams unified access, fallbacks and spend tracking across 100+ LLMs.
703K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
No public pricing
Hobby: Free (10,000 requests/mo)
Pro: $79/mo (unlimited seats)
Team: $799/mo (SOC-2 & HIPAA)
Free trial available
Open Source: $0 (self-hosted, 100+ providers)
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦AI Gateway for reliable LLM routing
- ✦Prompt Engineering for collaborative prompt management
- ✦Guardrails for enforcing reliable LLM behavior
- ✦Observability Suite for monitoring costs, quality, and latency
- ✦MCP Client for building AI agents with real-world tool access
- ✦Plain-Python workflow orchestration
- ✦Automatic versioning and experiment tracking
- ✦Scale-out compute with GPUs and parallel instances
- ✦One-command deployment to production
- ✦Runs on AWS, Azure, GCP, or Kubernetes
- ✦Event-based triggering of workflows
- ✦Request logging and LLM observability
- ✦AI gateway with routing and automatic fallbacks
- ✦Caching and rate limiting
- ✦Session, user and custom-property analytics
- ✦Prompts, playground and datasets for testing
- ✦Integrations with OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure and more
- ✦Unified access to 100+ LLMs in OpenAI format
- ✦Cost/spend tracking per key, user and team
- ✦Budgets and rate limiting
- ✦Automatic provider fallbacks and retries
- ✦Virtual keys and team management
- ✦Logging and observability integrations
Use cases
- →Monitor costs, quality, and latency of AI applications.
- →Route to 250+ LLMs reliably with a single endpoint.
- →Streamline and scale prompt engineering.
- →Enforce reliable LLM behavior with guardrails.
- →Build agents with access to real-world tools.
- →Developing and debugging ML pipelines locally
- →Scaling model training to cloud GPUs
- →Deploying experiments to production unchanged
- →Building reactive, event-driven data systems
- →Monitoring and debugging LLM apps
- →Analyzing model usage and cost
- →Caching responses to cut spend
- →Managing prompts and testing datasets
- →Giving developers governed access to many LLMs
- →Attributing and controlling LLM spend
- →Keeping apps running during provider outages
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