Portkey vs Requesty

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	Portkey AI gateway: routing, caching, observability, guardrails across providers.	Requesty LLM routing gateway providing a single API across 400+ models with cost and reliability controls.
Category	routing	routing
Vendor type	hybrid	commercial
Pricing	freemium	usage
Strengths	+ Provider-agnostic gateway + Built-in fallbacks and caching + Open source with managed option	+ Single API across 400+ models from 30+ providers + Routing strategies by cost, latency, and availability with automatic failover + Prompt caching and per-budget spend controls + Observability dashboards and governance such as RBAC and PII masking
Tradeoffs	− One more hop in the request path	− 5% markup on model costs versus calling providers directly − Proprietary, closed gateway that adds a hop in the request path
Used in stacks	2	0