Portkey Pricing Explained (2026) | Mintive Blog
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Portkey, now operating as Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS AI Gateway following a May 2026 acquisition, provides a unified endpoint for routing requests to more than 1,600 language models while offering retries, fallbacks, caching, guardrails, cost tracking, and observability. Its hosted plans range from a free Developer tier with 10,000 monthly recorded logs and three-day retention to a $49-per-month Production tier with 100,000 logs, 30-day retention, and $9 per additional 100,000 requests, while enterprise capabilities such as SSO, VPC hosting, HIPAA BAAs, and custom retention require quote-based pricing; model-provider token charges remain separate. The platform emphasizes easy adoption through OpenAI-compatible APIs, configurable routing, semantic caching, virtual keys, and integrations with common AI development frameworks, while its open-source gateway can be self-hosted. The discussion notes that organizations with regulated or large-scale agent deployments may require longer audit retention, granular tool permissions, SSO and SCIM provisioning, and visibility into actions beyond model requests, presenting Mintive as an alternative focused on agent identities, governed MCP tool access, centralized credentials, and broader activity monitoring.
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