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Bolt.new vs Portkey

Prompt to full-stack app in your browser — by StackBlitz
vs. Enterprise AI gateway + observability + guardrails + prompt mgmt

Bolt.new ↗Portkey website ↗

Pricing tiers

Bolt.new

Free
1M tokens/month. 300K tokens/day cap. Public + private projects. 10MB file uploads. Hosting + unlimited DBs.
Free
Pro
$25/month. Starts at 10M tokens/month, no daily cap. No Bolt branding, 100MB uploads, custom domains, SEO support, image AI edit. Rollover tokens.
$25/mo
Teams
$30/member/month. Centralized billing, team access, private NPM registries, design system knowledge.
$30/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, audit logs, dedicated account manager, 24/7 support.
Custom
Bolt.new ↗

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 free on Bolt.new vs free on Portkey.

MetricBolt.newPortkey
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Bolt.new · 14 features

  • Browser Terminal — Real shell in-browser. Run npm install, scripts, etc.
  • Deploy to Netlify — One-click deploy to Netlify.
  • Deploy to Vercel — One-click deploy to Vercel.
  • Design System Knowledge — Team plan: shared design-system context for consistent UI.
  • Expo Support — Build React Native/Expo apps too.
  • GitHub Export — Push full project to a new GitHub repo.
  • Image Input — Upload image/sketch → Bolt generates matching UI.
  • Import Existing Project — Upload an existing repo and iterate in Bolt.
  • Live Edit + Run — Edit code + hot reload alongside AI agent.
  • Private NPM Registries — Team plan: use private packages.
  • Prompt to App — Describe app → Bolt scaffolds + codes + runs it in the browser.
  • Stripe Integration — Hook up Stripe payments in-chat.
  • Supabase Integration — Provision + connect Supabase from chat.
  • WebContainer runtime — Node.js + terminal + filesystem running entirely in your browser.

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

KindBolt.newPortkey
CLI—Portkey CLI
SDK—portkey-ai (Node), portkey-ai (Python)
REST—Portkey API (OpenAI-compat)
MCP—Portkey MCP
OTHERBolt Web App, GitHub Export, StackBlitz Sync, WebContainer runtimePortkey Dashboard
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