Looking for a Portkey Alternative?

Compare doteb's full-platform deployment, automatic provider routing, and transparent pricing against Portkey's gateway and LLMOps suite.

Full-Platform DeployAutomatic RoutingImage & Video GenTransparent Pricing
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The best Portkey alternative for teams who want one open platform

Compare doteb and Portkey features side by side

Why choose doteb?

Self-host the entire platform, not just the router
Automatic routing that scores providers on live metrics
Image & video generation through the same API
Transparent pricing - 5% platform fee, or 0% with your own keys

doteb

SELF-HOSTABLE & PRODUCTION-READY

From $0

Self-host free forever

Portkey

GATEWAY + LLMOPS PLATFORM

Usage-based

Free tier, then paid plans

Managed cloud

Fully managed, production-ready hosted service

Self-host the full platform

Run the entire stack on your own infrastructure

Available
Gateway only

Deployment scope

What can be deployed in your environment

Full platform
Gateway/router (MIT)

One-command Docker deploy

Single image with dashboard, worker, and gateway

Gateway only

Automatic provider scoring

Routes on live uptime, throughput, price, and latency

Manual config

Failover & retries

Transparent retry on a healthy provider

Load balancing

Spread traffic across providers for a model

Response caching

Built-in caching for repeated requests

Redis, 10s-1yr TTL
Incl. semantic

Bring your own keys

Use your own provider keys

0% markup

Transparent platform fee

Predictable, easy-to-reason-about pricing

5% or 0% (BYOK)
Usage/seat tiers

Real-time cost analytics

Per-request cost tracking in the dashboard

Free to start

Get going without a paid plan

Free self-host
Free tier (limited)

Model coverage

Models and providers available through one API

300+ models, 25+ providers
1,600+ (vendor claim)

Image & video generation

Generative media through the same API

Limited

Guardrails

Prompt injection, PII, jailbreak, and secret detection

Versioned prompt management

Prompt registry, templates, and deployments

Playground only

OpenTelemetry & deep tracing

Export traces into an existing observability stack

No credit card required - Self-host option available - Enterprise support included