# Portkey alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 133 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Portkey holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/portkey/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- LiteLLM: 31
- Bifrost: 13
- Helicone: 4
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: 3
- OpenRouter: 3
- Confident AI: 2

## LLM gateways and observability

**Small business**: 41 of 84 answers did not name Portkey (Portkey is #1 of 9 at 36%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 14 of those 41
- Helicone: first choice in 3 of those 41
- OpenRouter: first choice in 3 of those 41
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 41
- Langfuse: first choice in 2 of those 41
- Anthropic: first choice in 1 of those 41
- Bifrost: first choice in 1 of those 41
- LLM Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 41

**Mid-market**: 45 of 84 answers did not name Portkey (Portkey is #2 of 9 at 32%).

- LiteLLM: first choice in 11 of those 45
- Bifrost: first choice in 3 of those 45
- Braintrust Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Cloudflare AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Helicone: first choice in 1 of those 45
- LangSmith: first choice in 1 of those 45
- LocalAI: first choice in 1 of those 45
- Ollama: first choice in 1 of those 45

**Enterprise**: 47 of 84 answers did not name Portkey (Portkey is #3 of 10 at 14%).

- Bifrost: first choice in 9 of those 47
- LiteLLM: first choice in 6 of those 47
- Confident AI: first choice in 2 of those 47
- Kong AI Gateway: first choice in 2 of those 47
- AWS Bedrock AgentCore Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Azure AI Gateway: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Azure API Management: first choice in 1 of those 47
- Datadog LLM Observability: first choice in 1 of those 47

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