Open-source AI infrastructure
Six alternatives to Portkey compared on deployment control, licence terms and published pricing, with a straight read on what the Palo Alto Networks acquisition doe…
Palo Alto Networks has completed its acquisition of Portkey, which now ships as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway. Acquisitions of infrastructure vendors routinely bring repricing, enterprise repackaging and roadmap reprioritisation. They also bring stronger continuity and compliance answers than a young independent vendor can give. Be specific about which of those matters to you before moving.
Portkey is primarily cloud-hosted, with self-hosting positioned on enterprise plans. If a data residency or deployment constraint is why you are shopping, that constraint does not go away, and it narrows the shortlist to options where self-hosting is the default rather than a tier.
Portkey config objects and virtual keys have to be re-expressed as routing policy and API keys wherever you go, and guardrail rules need re-declaring. The endpoint itself is a base URL and header change, because both ends are OpenAI-compatible. Plan a dual-run period rather than a cutover.