--- title: "Portkey: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory" description: "Portkey: An AI gateway with an MCP Gateway that checks the caller, injects upstream credentials. Scored on the published rubric, read 4 November 2026." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/portkey site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-04 section: "Hosts and registries" --- # Portkey: rubric and evidence | Agent MCP Directory > Portkey: An AI gateway with an MCP Gateway that checks the caller, injects upstream credentials. Scored on the published rubric, read 4 November 2026. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/portkey Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 # Portkey Portkey (Portkey, now offered as Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS AI Gateway): An AI gateway with an MCP Gateway that checks the caller, injects upstream credentials, provisions tools per user and logs every tool call; now sold as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway. ## Fact sheet | Product | Portkey (Prisma AIRS AI Gateway) | | --- | --- | | Operator | Portkey, now offered as Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS AI Gateway | | Kind | AI gateway | | Home | portkey.ai | | Pricing | Developer free (10K logs a month), Production 49 USD a month (100K logs), Enterprise custom; read 2026-11-04. (source, read 4 November 2026) | | Vendor profile | Portkey | ## Rubric | Dimension | Value | Evidence | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Protocols fronted | model APIs and MCP | MCP Gateway and Registry. | portkey.ai, read 2026-11-04 | | Auth passthrough | credential injection | Caller checked, upstream credentials injected. | portkey.ai, read 2026-11-04 | | Caching | simple cache, 1-day TTL on Developer | Pricing page. | portkey.ai, read 2026-11-04 | | Pricing | free / 49 USD / custom | Dated 2026-11-04. | portkey.ai, read 2026-11-04 | | Observability | per tool call logs | User, parameters, response. | portkey.ai, read 2026-11-04 | ## What it does not do - The MCP Gateway page does not mention caching of tool results. - Does not publish an acquisition date on its home page. ## Dated facts - The Portkey home page says Portkey is now Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, generally available for enterprises. ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/), read 4 November 2026) - The MCP Gateway checks the caller's Portkey API key or IdP token, then injects upstream credentials (OAuth, API keys or custom headers). ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/docs/product/mcp-gateway), read 4 November 2026) - Tool Provisioning enables or disables specific tools for each user. ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/docs/product/mcp-gateway), read 4 November 2026) - Every tool call is logged with user, parameters and response, filterable by server, user or time. ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/docs/product/mcp-gateway), read 4 November 2026) - Developer is free with 10K recorded logs a month; Production is 49 USD a month with 100K logs and 9 USD per extra 100K. ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/pricing), read 4 November 2026) - Requests past the log cap still go through; only the logs are not recorded. ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/pricing), read 4 November 2026) ## Compare and alternatives - [Alternatives to Portkey](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/portkey/alternatives/) - [Portkey vs Kong AI Gateway](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/portkey-vs-kong-ai-gateway/) - [Portkey vs Cloudflare AI Gateway](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/portkey-vs-cloudflare-ai-gateway/) - [Composio vs Portkey](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/compare/composio-vs-portkey/) Edition 4 November 2026 Method [How rows are verified](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/method/) Data [CSV and JSON](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/data/) Markdown [This page as markdown](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/portkey/index.md) ## Sources - [Portkey home](https://portkey.ai/), read 4 November 2026 - [Portkey pricing](https://portkey.ai/pricing), read 4 November 2026 - [Portkey: portkey.ai/docs/product/mcp-gateway](https://portkey.ai/docs/product/mcp-gateway), read 4 November 2026 Last reviewed 4 November 2026