--- title: "Portkey: MCP vendor profile | Agent MCP Directory" description: "Portkey: gateway or proxy. Products: MCP Gateway, plus 1 more. 7 dated facts, prices, standards and two checks, each sourced, read 5 November 2026." canonical: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/portkey site: "Agent MCP Directory" last_updated: 2026-11-05 section: "Vendors" --- # Portkey: MCP vendor profile | Agent MCP Directory > Portkey: gateway or proxy. Products: MCP Gateway, plus 1 more. 7 dated facts, prices, standards and two checks, each sourced, read 5 November 2026. Source: https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/portkey Site: Agent MCP Directory Last reviewed: 2026-11-05 # 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 | Listed as | Portkey (Prisma AIRS AI Gateway) | | --- | --- | | Type | Gateways and proxies | | Operator | Palo Alto Networks | | Home | portkey.ai | | Price | open source, MIT | | Read | 5 November 2026 | ## What it does for this layer Portkey supports OAuth 2.1, API tokens and header auth for vendor and partner MCP servers ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp)). Portkey lists SOC 2 compliance and HIPAA, with SaaS, private cloud, VPC or fully self-hosted deployment ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp)). 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](https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway)). Portkey's MCP page is headed "Portkey is now PRISMA AIRS AI Gateway" ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp)). Portkey's MCP Gateway can be self-hosted, deployed to the customer's cloud or run fully managed ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp)). Portkey lists a central registry for MCP servers and tools and bring-your-own auth with Okta, Entra and other providers ([portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp)). ## Products and plans | Product | What it does | Price | | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | MCP | OAuth 2.1 upstream | Supports | OAuth 2.1, API tokens and header auth for upstream servers. | portkey.ai | ## Checks on its own domain | Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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. ## Related on this site Hosts page - [Portkey](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/hosts/portkey/) Type - [Gateways and proxies](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/by-type/gateway/) Standards - [MCP](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/standards/mcp/) Section - [All vendors](https://agentmcpdirectory.com/vendors/) 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/vendors/portkey/index.md) ## Sources - [Portkey home](https://portkey.ai/), read 5 November 2026 - [MCP Gateway - Secure Access to MCP Servers | Portkey](https://portkey.ai/features/mcp), read 5 November 2026 - [GitHub - Portkey-AI/gateway](https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway), read 5 November 2026 Last reviewed 5 November 2026