EUrouter vs Portkey

EUrouter

A straight answer to a specific procurement problem: European teams that cannot send prompts to a US endpoint but still want the whole model catalogue behind one key. The OpenAI-compatible schema means existing code moves over with a base URL change, and the markup shrinks from 15% to 3% as you climb tiers. It competes head-on with OpenRouter and wins mainly on jurisdiction, not on price or model count.

Pros

• +173 models from ten-plus providers behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint
• +Requests route through EU infrastructure, with GDPR compliance as the default
• +Automatic routing by price, quality or latency rather than a fixed model choice
• +Token markup falls from 15% to 3% as you move up the plans
• +The operating company is named and registered in Amsterdam with a public registration number

Cons

• −The plan fee is only part of the cost — token usage carries a percentage markup on top
• −Prices are set in euros, so USD costs move with the exchange rate
• −The free tier's 15% markup makes it the most expensive per token
• −As a proxy layer it adds a hop and depends on upstream provider availability

Portkey

Portkey is a mature way to put one gateway in front of many model providers, with failover, caching and logging included. It suits teams running LLM apps in production that want cost and reliability controls without writing them. The acquisition by a security vendor is likely to steer the roadmap toward enterprise governance, so small teams should watch pricing and packaging.

Pros

• +Open-source MIT-licensed gateway that can be self-hosted
• +Routing, fallbacks, load balancing and semantic caching in one place
• +Free developer tier and a $49 production tier with published overage pricing
• +Observability, guardrails and prompt management on the same platform

Cons

• −The free tier is limited to 10,000 logs and is not meant for production
• −Brand and packaging are shifting under Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS
• −Advanced governance, SSO and VPC hosting need the Enterprise plan

Is EUrouter cheaper than Portkey?

On published entry prices, EUrouter starts lower — $42/mo against $49/mo for Portkey. Entry price is the lowest paid plan as we last verified it; what each plan includes differs.

Does EUrouter or Portkey have a free tier?

Both: EUrouter has a free tier, and Portkey has a free tier.

Which has a public API, EUrouter or Portkey?

Both ship a public API, so either can be built on; the fact table above shows the platforms each one runs on.