Portkey is a strong production gateway — fallbacks, retries, semantic caching, prompt management. Tokmeter sits on the finance and governance side of the same wire. The two coexist cleanly.
Install in 5 minutes without touching app code. Built for procurement, finance, and the CTO conversation.
A capable proxy with caching, prompt management, and guardrails — best when reliability on the request path is the priority.
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| Capability | Tokmeter | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
Install without engineers Paste a read-only billing key, see spend in 5 min | SDK or proxy change required | |
No code-path change | drop-in for OpenAI SDK | |
Proxy / gateway on hot path Sits in front of every model call | optional — only when you want caps |
| Capability | Tokmeter | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
Chargeback report (PDF/CSV by team, cost center, GL code) | ||
Budget approvals with email sign-off | ||
Hard $ caps per org / team / virtual key / model | budgets per virtual key | |
IDE seats (Cursor, Copilot) in same view as API spend | ||
Anonymized industry benchmarks (Spend Index) | ||
Outcome KPIs (cost per PR, cost per ticket) |
| Capability | Tokmeter | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
Automatic fallback / retry across providers | ||
Semantic caching | not our wedge | |
Prompt management & versioning | ||
Guardrails (PII redaction, prompt injection) | PII redaction | |
Load balancing across keys |
| Capability | Tokmeter | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Azure, Bedrock, Vertex | ||
IDE-tool ingest (Cursor, GitHub Copilot) | ||
n8n / workflow ingest | ||
Manual CSV upload for non-API spend |
| Capability | Tokmeter | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
Free tier with real connections | 1 provider, full dashboards | 10k requests/mo |
Paid plans start at | $49/mo Starter | $49/mo Pro |
Pay per gateway request | flat tiers | above quota |
Keep it. Tokmeter ingests your provider billing read-only and sits alongside — so you get FinOps without changing your request path.