Mid-marketnewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 6 of 54, unchanged
2 categories · Named, not rankedPortkey AI Gateway
6Judge labels
3First choices
0Negative labels
3 / 14Models named it
2Categories
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
3 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Portkey AI Gateway was named 3 times in LLM gateways and 1 other category, where LiteLLM led with 31%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small businessnot named
0%
No model named it for this buyer.
Mid-market6 of 69
4%2 labels
under the label threshold
Enterprise13 of 87
2%2 labels
under the label threshold
In llm gateways · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Portkey AI Gateway for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM gateways and observability | Data platform | 4% | 6 of 69 | 0% | 2 | under 10 labels · led by LiteLLM at 31% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. |
| AI governance platforms | Data platform | 0% | 75 of 135 | 0% | 1 | under 10 labels · led by Credo AI at 18% |
Movement
Since September 2026, Portkey AI Gateway held within the floor in all two categories: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · LLM gateways · by segment
EnterprisenewNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 11 pointsRank 38 of 75, unchanged
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LLM gateways | 0% | 4% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 4% now. | New this edition | Rank 6 of 69, unchanged |
| AI governance | 0% | 0% | newNew since September 2026: not ranked then, 0% now. | New this edition | Rank 75 of 135, unchanged |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Portkey AI Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Portkey AI Gateway across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labels2
Paraphrase1 label1
Comparative1 labelNone
Budget-constrained2 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative0 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative6 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Top Recommendation: Portkey AI Gateway (now part of Palo Alto Networks)” Grok 4.1 Fast · LLM gateways · direct prompt · first choice
“I'd recommend Portkey as the strongest all-around choice” DeepSeek V4 Flash · LLM gateways · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Portkey free (if you use an LLM API gateway) for budget control.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · AI governance · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
No model argued against it.
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Portkey AI Gateway, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Portkey AI Gateway was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Portkey AI Gateway, over the 6 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Portkey AI Gateway was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Portkey AI Gateway. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 6 of the 6 answers that named Portkey AI Gateway and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
portkey.aiYour site4
cequence.ai3
dev.to3
getmaxim.ai3
opper.ai3
respan.ai3
agenta.ai2
aiopsschool.com2
atlan.com2
difinity.ai2
Twenty-three of the twenty-seven domain citations in answers naming Portkey AI Gateway came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
portkey.ai ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Portkey AI Gateway takes 4% of first choices and LiteLLM takes 31%.ShowHide
Search and answers
portkey.ai ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Portkey AI Gateway takes 4% of first choices and LiteLLM takes 31%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “llm gateway”
9
Position for “llm gateways”
–
not in the top ten
- Organic visits to its site
- about 5,999 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 2,014 · 76 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 2,372
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 6 of 69 in LLM gateways
Segment leader
31%
LiteLLM
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 6 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 6 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on portkey.ai
2,282
subdomains included
Content
138
counted in the table below
Documentation
1,485
Product · Integration
9 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Report or ebook | 70 | undated | |||
| Blog | 45 | 2 | 2026-09-15 | LLM gateways | |
| Case study | 8 | 8 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Glossary or explainer | 8 | 0 | 2026-05-04 | ||
| Comparison | 5 | 4 | 2026-09-15 | ||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated | |||
| Template or tool | 1 | 0 | 2023-07-01 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-15Portkey vs litellm comparison
- 2026-09-15All case study
- 2026-09-15Leading delivery platform case study
- 2026-09-15Portkey ai info page blog
- 2026-09-15Openrouter alternatives comparison
- 2026-09-15Litellm alternatives comparison
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page portkey.ai exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Follow Portkey AI Gateway
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
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The company
Portkey AI Gateway is its own company.ShowHide
The company
Portkey AI Gateway is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- Production Stack for Gen AI Builders
- For
- AI teams
- Price stated
- Free Forever; $49/month; Custom Pricing portkey.ai/pricing
- Starting price
- 49 portkey.ai/pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Get started for free portkey.ai
- Integrations claimed
- 1600 portkey.ai
- Certifications
- HIPAA COMPLIANTSOC2 Type 2GDPRHIPAASOC2ISO27001SOC 2 compliance
- Customers named
- FiggHaptikQoalaArioInternet2Snorkel AIQA.techPerficient
- Not stated on the pages read
- Hosting
What Portkey AI Gateway's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: portkey.ai, portkey.ai/pricing, trust.portkey.ai, portkey.ai/features/mcp. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Portkey AI Gateway's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Portkey AI Gateway, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Portkey AI Gateway by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where Portkey AI Gateway is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Portkey AI Gateway, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.