Portkey: MCP vendor profile
Portkey, now presented as Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, runs an MCP Gateway with a central registry of servers and tools, identity-provider sign-in and per-user tool policy, self-hosted or managed, as documented by the vendor. Portkey describes its MCP Gateway as "A unified layer to access and govern MCP tools, without modifying your agents or servers" (portkey.ai).
At a glance
What it does for this layer
Portkey supports OAuth 2.1, API tokens and header auth for vendor and partner MCP servers (portkey.ai). Portkey lists SOC 2 compliance and HIPAA, with SaaS, private cloud, VPC or fully self-hosted deployment (portkey.ai). Portkey's open-source gateway repository is MIT licensed, had about 13.3k stars on 5 Nov 2026, and says it routes to "1,600+ LLMs" with "50+ AI Guardrails" (github.com).
Portkey's MCP page is headed "Portkey is now PRISMA AIRS AI Gateway" (portkey.ai). Portkey's MCP Gateway can be self-hosted, deployed to the customer's cloud or run fully managed (portkey.ai). Portkey lists a central registry for MCP servers and tools and bring-your-own auth with Okta, Entra and other providers (portkey.ai).
Products and plans
Portkey: products read on 5 November 2026, with the price where the page gave one| Product | What it does | Price |
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| MCP Gateway | Governed access layer for MCP servers and tools. | price not read |
| Portkey AI Gateway (open source) | MIT-licensed LLM gateway with guardrails. | open source, MIT; from 0 USD (source, as of 5 November 2026) |
Standards
Portkey: what the vendor's pages state about the standards, by the part of each standard| Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source |
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| MCP | OAuth 2.1 upstream | Supports | OAuth 2.1, API tokens and header auth for upstream servers. | portkey.ai |
Checks on its own domain
Portkey: the checks run on portkey.ai| Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method |
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| Ora cached score | portkey.ai | 69 of 100, grade C | 20 October 2026 | how it was taken |
| Cloudflare agent-readiness scan | portkey.ai | 27 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence; 4 of 15 counted checks passed | 5 November 2026 | how it was taken |
What it does not do
- Portkey's MCP page does not give an acquisition date for the Palo Alto Networks rebrand.