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Kong AI Gateway vs Portkey AI Gateway

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Kong AI Gateway

Kong AI Gateway

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Kong AI Gateway extends Kong's enterprise API management platform. It provides LLM-specific capabilities such as prompt compression, semantic caching, and dynamic model routing. This solution integrates LLM routing and governance into a broader, enterprise-grade API management framework. It offers robust API management, access control, and policy enforcement specifically for LLM traffic. The gateway includes strong token compression features and provides robust routing and fallback mechanisms. It is designed for organizations already utilizing Kong's API management ecosystem.

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Portkey AI Gateway

Portkey AI Gateway

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Switchboard for LLM endpoints that handles key management, retries, caching, and AB routing.

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Paid
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Kong AI Gateway

Pricing

paid

Key Features

Integrates LLM routing and governance into a broader, enterprise-grade API management framework. · Offers robust API management, access control, and policy enforcement specifically for LLM traffic. · Includes strong token compression features and provides robust routing and fallback mechanisms.

Portkey AI Gateway

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Build, Serving, Inference Gateways

Pricing

paid

Key Features

Supports over 1,600 models from more than 40 providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. · Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in April 2026 to become the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS. · The unified Gateway, including governance and observability features, was made open source in March 2026.

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