Router compare
AIRouter vs Portkey
Router-vs-router comparison for integration shape, routing policy, target providers, pricing model, and data handling. Use this view for the routing layer; use model compare when choosing the model itself.
Heureka Labs UG
Commercial LLM router that analyzes incoming requests and routes to the optimal model for cost/quality/latency via a drop-in OpenAI-compatible API, with a privacy-preserving embedding mode that avoids sending prompt content.
Portkey AI
Production AI gateway routing to 1,600+ LLMs with failover, load balancing, semantic caching, and guardrails; Apache 2.0 core is fully self-hostable with the complete feature set.
Facet comparison
Type
AIRouter
Router
Portkey
Gateway
Openness
AIRouter
Commercial
Portkey
Open source
Hosting
AIRouter
Hosted SaaS
Portkey
Hosted SaaS
Decision mechanism
AIRouter
Classifier, Predictive learned
Portkey
Rules / heuristics, Cascade
Optimizes for
AIRouter
Cost, Quality, Latency
Portkey
Reliability, Cost, Latency
Routing scope
AIRouter
Cross-provider
Portkey
Cross-provider
Pricing
AIRouter
Passthrough + fee
Portkey
Subscription
Data retention
AIRouter
Unknown
Portkey
Opt-in logging
Models reachable
AIRouter
-
Portkey
1.6K models
API compatibility
AIRouter
OpenAI
Portkey
OpenAI