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Anthropic API vs Portkey

API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning
vs. Enterprise AI gateway + observability + guardrails + prompt mgmt

Anthropic website ↗Portkey website ↗

Pricing tiers

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Portkey

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 10k logs/month. Universal API + key management. 3 prompt templates. Basic observability.
Free
Gateway (OSS)
MIT-licensed gateway only (no observability UI). Self-host for routing/fallbacks.
$0 base (usage-based)
Production
$49/month. 100k logs ($9 per additional 100k). Fallbacks, load balancing, retries, semantic caching. Unlimited prompts. RBAC.
$49/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ logs/month. Custom guardrails, advanced evals, SSO, budget controls, VPC + on-prem, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR.
Custom
Portkey website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing opus-4-7 on Anthropic API vs free on Portkey.

MetricAnthropic APIPortkey
discount batch50 % off—

Features

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Portkey · 18 features

    • AI Gateway — Unified OpenAI-compatible API to 250+ LLMs.
    • Alerts — Thresholds on latency, error rate, cost, usage.
    • Budget Controls — Per-key + per-team spending limits.
    • Evaluations — Built-in evaluator templates + custom.
    • Fallbacks — Config-driven provider fallback chains.
    • Guardrails — Pre/post processors for safety + compliance.
    • Load Balancing — Round-robin, weighted, least-latency across providers.
    • MCP Support — Use MCP servers as tools through gateway.
    • Observability — Logs, traces, feedback, alerts, cost tracking.
    • OSS Gateway — Open-source gateway (portkey-ai/gateway).
    • Prompt Library — Shared prompt library + public marketplace.
    • Prompt Templates — Version + test + collaborate on prompts.
    • Retries — Configurable retry policies per route.
    • Role-Based Access Control — Team permissions on prompts + keys.
    • Semantic Caching — Vector-based cache on query meaning.
    • Simple Caching — Exact-match cache.
    • Virtual Keys — Per-app keys with budget + rate limits + permissions.
    • VPC Deployment (Ent) — Deploy in your own VPC for compliance.

    Developer interfaces

    KindAnthropic APIPortkey
    CLIClaude Code CLIPortkey CLI
    SDKGo SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)portkey-ai (Node), portkey-ai (Python)
    RESTAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)Portkey API (OpenAI-compat)
    MCP—Portkey MCP
    OTHER—Portkey Dashboard
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