Portkey has released a newly unified Gateway and made it fully open source. Capabilities that once required a separate SaaS subscription, including governance, observability, authentication, and cost management, are now freely available, along with the new MCP Gateway designed to manage and govern AI agents across enterprise tools and systems.
Portkey’s Gateway already runs in the critical path of production AI systems at global scale, processing 1T+ tokens and 120M+ AI requests every day, managing $180M+ in annualized AI spend, and supporting 24,000+ organizations worldwide. By open-sourcing its Gateway, Portkey is making this proven, enterprise-grade infrastructure available to every engineering team building production AI.
Portkey Gateway: Built for the era of agentic AI
Portkey’s initial Gateway gave engineering teams the foundation they needed to run AI in production: fast, reliable routing across every major model and provider. This release builds on that with a full governance and cost control layer, while adding the ability to manage and govern agentic workflows through the newly open-sourced MCP Gateway.
“The next phase of AI is already being shaped by agents interacting with the world around them,” said Rohit Agarwal, CEO and co-founder of Portkey. “Once agents access tools, query systems, and execute actions, they stop being software features and start becoming operational actors inside the enterprise. At that point, companies need the same thing they rely on for any critical infrastructure: a control plane that governs access, enforces policy, and provides visibility into what’s happening in real time. Our open-sourced Gateway provides that foundation for the agentic era.”
What’s New:
- Usage policies — Define and enforce model usage rules, limits, and access controls at the gateway level
- Model catalog — A continuously updated registry of models across providers
- Control plane connection — connect the gateway to observability and management infrastructure
- Real-time metrics — Track cost, latency, and usage in real time
- MCP registry — Discover, manage, and version MCP servers in one place
- Enterprise-grade authentication — Built-in support for OAuth 2.1, OAuth 2.0, for MCP traffic
The announcement builds on Portkey’s rapid growth as the control plane for production AI. The company recently raised a $15 million Series A led by Elevation Capital with participation from Lightspeed to expand its platform and support the next generation of AI infrastructure.
To learn more about Gateway and access the open-source project, visit the website here.
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