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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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Openlayer
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI governance and observability platform with 100+ automated tests and real-time guardrails to evaluate and monitor ML/LLM systems.
24K visits/mo
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LangWatch
✓ verifiedFreemium
Platform to test, evaluate and observe LLM and voice AI agents, with prompt management and red-teaming for production.
23K visits/mo6.4K saves
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ApX Machine Learning
✓ verifiedFreemium
Tools, model specs and courses for LLM engineers-VRAM calculator, benchmarks and model directory-with free and paid tiers.
355K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Basic: Free (20k inferences/mo, 1 member, 5 projects)
No public pricing
Developer: €0 (50k events/mo)
Growth: €29/core-seat/mo (+ €5 per 100k events)
Basic: $0/mo (free forever)
Pro: $19/mo
Pro+: $59/mo
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
- ✦100+ automated AI tests
- ✦Offline evaluation and CI/CD for AI
- ✦Real-time observability and tracing
- ✦Guardrails against PII leaks, injection, hallucination
- ✦Data-quality and drift monitoring
- ✦Compliance/governance alignment
- ✦Git, SDK, CLI and REST API integration
- ✦Open-Source AI Gateway
- ✦Multi-LLM Management & Cost Optimization
- ✦Efficient and Secure LLMs Invocation
- ✦Unified API Signature for LLMs
- ✦Load Balancer for seamless switching between LLMs
- ✦Fine-Grained Traffic Control for LLMs
- ✦LLM Quota Management
- ✦Real-time LLM Traffic Monitoring
- ✦Caching Strategies for AI in Production
- ✦Flexible Prompt Management
- ✦Scenario-based agent testing
- ✦LLM evaluation and quality scoring
- ✦Observability for cost and latency
- ✦Prompt management with GitHub sync
- ✦Voice AI simulation
- ✦LLM red-teaming and governance
- ✦VRAM/GPU-memory calculator for LLMs
- ✦LLM performance rankings and benchmarks
- ✦Model directory and comparison
- ✦AI/ML courses and learning roadmap
- ✦Calculator API and exportable cost reports
- ✦Engineering blog and guides
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.
- →Evaluate models before production
- →Monitor live AI systems for issues
- →Prevent unsafe or non-compliant outputs
- →Catch data drift and quality problems
- →Building API portals for secure sharing of internal APIs with partners.
- →Tracking API usage and driving API monetization.
- →Managing and securing API access in compliance with enterprise policies.
- →Connecting to multiple AI large models simultaneously.
- →Optimizing LLM costs and improving efficiency.
- →Protecting against LLM attacks and data leaks.
- →Catch agent issues before production
- →Evaluate and monitor LLM quality
- →Test voice AI agents at scale
- →Estimating GPU memory before training or inference
- →Comparing and selecting LLMs
- →Learning ML and LLM engineering
- →Modeling production deployment costs
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