# Cyber Company Profiles: Portkey

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## At a Glance

- Website: [portkey.ai](https://portkey.ai)
- Profile: https://cybercompanyprofiles.com/companies/portkey
- Type: Security for AI
- Status: acquired
- Market readiness: Established (28/40)
- Defensibility: Contested (13/21)
- Founded: 2023
- Last updated: 2026-07-11

## Executive Summary

Palo Alto Networks closed its purchase of Portkey on May 29, 2026, at a price neither company disclosed, and made it the core AI gateway of Prisma AIRS, its AI security platform. Portkey sells software that sits between a company's applications and the AI models they call, checking and routing each request, with its core code published as open source. The public record documents Portkey's usage far better than its paying customers. Press coverage reported more than 120 million AI requests a day across some 24,000 organizations. The customers Portkey names appear in homepage testimonials from Qoala, Internet2, and QA.tech rather than in documented contracts, and the company had raised about 18 million dollars when it sold.

## Contents

- [Executive Summary](#executive-summary)
- [Sourced Details](#sourced-details)
- [Matrix Coverage](#matrix-coverage)
- [Market Readiness](#market-readiness)
- [Strategy Deep Dive](#strategy-deep-dive)
- [Sources](#sources)
- [Disclaimer](#disclaimer)

## Sourced Details

| Detail | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Description | Portkey is an AI gateway and control plane for teams putting generative AI into production. It routes requests to language models and adds observability, guardrails that redact sensitive data, governance, and prompt management in one platform. | [\[f1\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Acquisition | Palo Alto Networks, announced 2026-04-30 | [\[f2\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Founded | 2023 | [\[f3\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| HQ | San Francisco, California, US | [\[f4\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Latest funding | Series A, $15M, led by Elevation Capital (2026) | [\[f5\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Deployment | SaaS, Self-hosted | [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources) |
| Compliance | GDPR, HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2 | [\[f6\]](#company-detail-sources) |

### Products

| Product | What it does |
|---|---|
| Portkey | AI gateway and control plane that routes requests across many LLM providers and runs guardrails on inputs and outputs to catch prompt injection, PII leaks, and unsafe content. |

## Matrix Coverage

Mapped to the [AI Defense Matrix](https://aidefensematrix.com) [\[f7\]](#company-detail-sources):

| Asset | Govern | Identify | Protect | Detect | Respond | Recover |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Gateways & Routers |  | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |
| Runtime AI Data |  |  | ✓ | ✓ |  |  |

Portkey is an AI gateway and control plane that routes requests across many LLM providers and runs guardrails on inputs and outputs to catch prompt injection, PII leaks, and unsafe content. It is mapped to the AI Defense Matrix.

## Market Readiness

How well the company can compete in its security market, scored across eight dimensions against public evidence.

**Established (28/40)**

Analyzed 2026-07-10. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Problem Clarity | 3/5 |
| Capability Depth | 4/5 |
| Market Timing | 4/5 |
| Team Credibility | 3/5 |
| GTM Proof | 3/5 |
| Funding Efficiency | 4/5 |
| Category Clarity | 4/5 |
| Incumbent Defensibility | 3/5 |

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## Strategy Deep Dive

A closer look at the company's product strategy, measuring how [defensible](https://zeltser.com/scoring-security-product-strategy) it is against market forces and examining the [eight areas](https://zeltser.com/security-product-creation-framework) behind it.

### Defensibility

**Contested (13/21)**

Band guidance: reinforce or reposition. Analyzed 2026-07-11. Scope: whole company.

| Dimension | Score |
|---|---|
| Value Delivery | 1/3 |
| Switching Cost | 2/3 |
| Compliance Moat | 1/3 |
| Problem Complexity | 3/3 |
| Buyer Profile | 2/3 |
| Layer | 3/3 |
| Proprietary Data, Content, or IP | 1/3 |

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## Sources

### Company Detail Sources

Cited from the Sourced Details and Matrix Coverage rows.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| f1 | [Portkey: Production Stack for Gen AI Builders](https://portkey.ai) | official | 2026-07-10 |
| f2 | [Palo Alto Networks: Intent to Acquire Portkey (April 30, 2026)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-to-acquire-portkey-to-secure-the-rise-of-ai-agents) | official | 2026-07-10 |
| f3 | [Inc42 on Portkey](https://inc42.com/startups/how-portkey-ai-is-steering-indian-enterprises-through-the-genai-maze/) | press | 2026-07-10 |
| f4 | [Portkey contact page](https://portkey.ai/contact) | official | 2026-06-14 |
| f5 | [Portkey Series A announcement](https://portkey.ai/blog/series-a-funding/) | press | 2026-07-10 |
| f6 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog entry](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/portkey/) | other | 2026-06-13 |
| f7 | [AI Defense Matrix Catalog mapping](https://catalog.aidefensematrix.com/products/portkey/) | other | 2026-06-23 |

### Profile Analysis Sources

The sources the full Market Readiness analysis cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Portkey: Production Stack for Gen AI Builders (acquisition banner live on 2026-07-10)](https://portkey.ai) “We're excited to announce Palo Alto Networks has completed the acquisition of Portkey.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s2 | [Portkey: AI Gateway feature page](https://portkey.ai/features/ai-gateway) “Connect, manage, and secure AI interactions across 3000+ LLMs with centralized control, real-time monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s3 | [Portkey: Guardrails feature page](https://portkey.ai/features/guardrails) “Portkey runs 60+ powerful AI guardrails on top of the open-source Gateway, so you can filter, fix, or route every LLM request as it happens.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s4 | [Portkey: Pricing (Enterprise compliance certificates and deployment options)](https://portkey.ai/pricing) “SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA Compliance Certificates ... BAA Signing for Compliances ... VPC Managed Hosting ... Private Tenancy” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s5 | [Portkey-AI/gateway: open-source repository (more than 12,000 stars, MIT license)](https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway) “A blazing fast AI Gateway with integrated guardrails. Route to 1,600+ LLMs, 50+ AI Guardrails with 1 fast & friendly API.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s6 | [Palo Alto Networks: Completes Acquisition of Portkey, Expands Prisma AIRS (May 29, 2026)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-portkey-to-secure-ai-agents) “today announced it has closed the acquisition of Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways. By establishing Portkey as the core AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, the comprehensive AI security platform, Palo Alto Networks will be able to deliver a solution that natively integrates.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s7 | [Palo Alto Networks: Intent to Acquire Portkey (April 30, 2026)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-to-acquire-portkey-to-secure-the-rise-of-ai-agents) “Portkey delivers a critical centralized control plane to manage and protect autonomous AI agents, already processing trillions of tokens per month with the low latency required for agent-to-agent communication.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s8 | [Inc42: Portkey Bags 3 Million Dollar Seed Funding (Lightspeed-led, 2023)](https://inc42.com/buzz/portkey-bags-3-mn-seed-funding-to-help-enterprises-ride-the-generative-ai-wave/) “The startup currently claims to serve millions of requests a day and has so far partnered with names such as Postman, Jio Haptik, and Springworks, among others.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s9 | [Portkey: Series A announcement (15 million dollars, February 2026)](https://portkey.ai/blog/series-a-funding/) “Today we're proud to announce Portkey has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Lightspeed.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s10 | [National Vulnerability Database: CVE-2025-66405 (Portkey-AI gateway SSRF, fixed in 1.14.0)](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66405) “Prior to 1.14.0, the gateway determined the destination baseURL by prioritizing the value in the x-portkey-custom-host request header ... This can be maliciously used by users for SSRF attacks. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.14.0.” | research | 2026-07-10 |
| s11 | [MITRE CVE Record: CVE-2025-66405 Portkey.ai Gateway Server-Side Request Forgery in Custom Host](https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2025-66405) “Portkey.ai Gateway: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Custom Host” | research | 2026-07-10 |
| s12 | [SEC Form D: Portkey, Inc. Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities (CIK 0001989908, filed 2023-08-22)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1989908/000198990823000001/primary_doc.xml) “entityName Portkey, Inc. ... industryGroupType Other Technology ... totalOfferingAmount 3000000 ... totalAmountSold 2699999” | regulatory | 2026-07-10 |
| s13 | [Portkey: Homepage customer testimonials (QA.tech, Qoala, Internet2, Fortune 500 pharma)](https://portkey.ai) “Trusted by Fortune 500s & Startups ... Patrick L, Founder and CPO, QA.tech ... With 30 million policies a month, managing over 25 GenAI use cases became a pain ... Prateek Jogani, CTO, Qoala ... Tim Manik, Cloud Solutions Architect, Internet2” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s14 | [LiteLLM Docs: Getting Started (Call 100+ LLMs using the OpenAI Input/Output Format)](https://docs.litellm.ai/) “Call 100+ LLMs using the OpenAI Input/Output Format ... Central service (LLM Gateway) to access multiple LLMs” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s15 | [The New Stack: Portkey open-sources its AI gateway after processing 2 trillion tokens a day (March 31, 2026)](https://thenewstack.io/portkey-gateway-open-source/) “This month, the company launched its newly unified Portkey Gateway service and made it fully open-source.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s16 | [The New Stack: Portkey usage figures at the March 2026 open-source launch](https://thenewstack.io/portkey-gateway-open-source/) “The company's platform is already processing trillions of tokens and more than 120 million AI requests every day, managing $180 million in annualized AI spend across some 24,000 organizations.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s17 | [The New Stack: Palo Alto Networks makes a $700M-class AI bet on Portkey gateway (Janakiram MSV, May 4, 2026)](https://thenewstack.io/palo-alto-portkey-ai-gateway/) “Portkey, LiteLLM, Kong AI Gateway, and Cloudflare AI Gateway each solved the same fragmentation problem in slightly different ways.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s18 | [Futurum: Can Palo Alto Networks Route the Agentic Future Through Portkey's AI Gateway? (Fernando Montenegro, May 7, 2026)](https://futurumgroup.com/insights/can-palo-alto-networks-route-the-agentic-future-through-portkeys-ai-gateway/) “Portkey fits meaningfully within the Prisma AIRS portfolio, adding a gateway capability that addresses a real and growing control gap as agentic AI workloads move from pilot to production.” | research | 2026-07-10 |
| s19 | [SDxCentral: Palo Alto Networks completes Portkey acquisition, adding AI gateway to flagship platform](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-completes-portkey-acquisition-adding-ai-gateway-to-flagship-platform/) “Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s20 | [Inc42: Lightspeed partner Dev Khare on backing the Portkey founders (2023 seed coverage)](https://inc42.com/buzz/portkey-bags-3-mn-seed-funding-to-help-enterprises-ride-the-generative-ai-wave/) “Lightspeed Partner Dev Khare said, We are excited to partner with Portkey ... We are equally excited by the founding team of Rohit and Ayush whom we've known for the past decade through multiple 0 to 1 journeys.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s21 | [Inc42 on the Portkey founders Rohit Agarwal and Ayush Garg](https://inc42.com/startups/how-portkey-ai-is-steering-indian-enterprises-through-the-genai-maze/) “This prompted Agarwal to join hands with Pepper Content's erstwhile director of engineering Ayush Garg to build a control panel for AI apps, Portkey.ai. Founded in April 2023” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s22 | [GitHub API repository record for Portkey-AI/gateway (pushed_at, star count, license)](https://api.github.com/repos/Portkey-AI/gateway) “"pushed_at": "2026-05-25T13:54:51Z", "stargazers_count": 12391, "license": MIT License, "archived": false” | other | 2026-07-10 |

### Deep-Dive Sources

The sources the full Strategy Deep Dive cites.

| Id | Source | Tier | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| s1 | [Portkey homepage (Production Stack for Gen AI Builders, acquisition banner live on 2026-07-10)](https://portkey.ai) “Portkey equips AI teams with everything they need to go to production - AI Gateway, Observability, Guardrails, Governance, and Prompt Management, all in one platform.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s2 | [Portkey AI Gateway feature page](https://portkey.ai/features/ai-gateway) “Connect, manage, and secure AI interactions across 3000+ LLMs with centralized control, real-time monitoring, and enterprise-grade governance.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s3 | [Portkey guardrails feature page (60+ guardrails and Patronus integration)](https://portkey.ai/features/guardrails) “Portkey runs 60+ powerful AI guardrails on top of the open-source Gateway, so you can filter, fix, or route every LLM request as it happens ... Patronus AI's suite of evaluators are now available on the Portkey Gateway.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s4 | [Portkey pricing page (Production plan and compliance certificates)](https://portkey.ai/pricing) “Production $49/month ... 100k recorded logs per month ... +$9 overages per additional 100k requests ... SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR, HIPAA Compliance Certificates ... BAA Signing for Compliances ... VPC Managed Hosting ... Private Tenancy ... Enterprise-Grade Reliability, backed by robust SLAs” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s5 | [Portkey-AI/gateway open-source repository (more than 12,000 stars, MIT license)](https://github.com/Portkey-AI/gateway) “A blazing fast AI Gateway with integrated guardrails. Route to 1,600+ LLMs, 50+ AI Guardrails with 1 fast & friendly API.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s6 | [Palo Alto Networks completes acquisition of Portkey (May 29, 2026)](https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/company/press/2026/palo-alto-networks-completes-acquisition-of-portkey-to-secure-ai-agents) “today announced it has closed the acquisition of Portkey, a pioneer in AI Gateways ... Portkey's unique architecture is purpose-built to secure AI deployments at scale, with its ability to process trillions of tokens ... By establishing Portkey as the core AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s7 | [Portkey homepage customer testimonials (Qoala, Internet2, QA.tech, Fortune 500 pharma)](https://portkey.ai) “Trusted by Fortune 500s & Startups ... Patrick L, Founder and CPO, QA.tech ... With 30 million policies a month, managing over 25 GenAI use cases became a pain ... Prateek Jogani, CTO, Qoala ... AI Leader, Fortune 500 Pharma Company ... Tim Manik, Cloud Solutions Architect, Internet2” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s8 | [Portkey AI Gateway routing features (conditional routing, fallbacks, load balancing)](https://portkey.ai/features/ai-gateway) “Conditional Routing ... Fallbacks. Switch between LLMs during failures or errors. Automatic retries ... Load balancing. Use the AI gateway to distribute network traffic across LLMs.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s9 | [Inc42 on how Portkey steers enterprises through the GenAI maze (founders and named clients)](https://inc42.com/startups/how-portkey-ai-is-steering-indian-enterprises-through-the-genai-maze/) “This prompted Agarwal to join hands with Pepper Content's erstwhile director of engineering Ayush Garg to build a control panel for AI apps, Portkey.ai. Founded in April 2023 ... our client companies like Postman or Quizizz ... have built their own products using generative AI.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s10 | [Inc42 on Rohit Agarwal's product and AI background before Portkey](https://inc42.com/startups/how-portkey-ai-is-steering-indian-enterprises-through-the-genai-maze/) “The genesis of Portkey started with a problem statement when Agarwal was still working with Freshworks, where he led the product and AI vertical from 2015 to 2020 ... he transitioned to Pepper Content in 2021 ... scaling up the company's AI writing assistant, Peppertype.ai.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s11 | [The New Stack: Portkey open-sources its AI gateway after processing 2 trillion tokens a day (March 31, 2026)](https://thenewstack.io/portkey-gateway-open-source/) “This month, the company launched its newly unified Portkey Gateway service and made it fully open-source.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s12 | [The New Stack: Portkey usage figures at the March 2026 open-source launch](https://thenewstack.io/portkey-gateway-open-source/) “The company's platform is already processing trillions of tokens and more than 120 million AI requests every day, managing $180 million in annualized AI spend across some 24,000 organizations.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s13 | [Futurum: Can Palo Alto Networks Route the Agentic Future Through Portkey's AI Gateway? (Fernando Montenegro, May 7, 2026)](https://futurumgroup.com/insights/can-palo-alto-networks-route-the-agentic-future-through-portkeys-ai-gateway/) “Portkey fits meaningfully within the Prisma AIRS portfolio, adding a gateway capability that addresses a real and growing control gap as agentic AI workloads move from pilot to production.” | research | 2026-07-10 |
| s14 | [SDxCentral: Palo Alto Networks completes Portkey acquisition, adding AI gateway to flagship platform](https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/palo-alto-networks-completes-portkey-acquisition-adding-ai-gateway-to-flagship-platform/) “Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.” | press | 2026-07-10 |
| s15 | [Portkey Series A announcement (15 million dollars, February 2026)](https://portkey.ai/blog/series-a-funding/) “Today we're proud to announce Portkey has raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Elevation Capital, with participation from Lightspeed.” | official | 2026-07-10 |
| s16 | [SEC Form D: Portkey, Inc. Notice of Exempt Offering of Securities (CIK 0001989908, filed 2023-08-22)](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1989908/000198990823000001/primary_doc.xml) “entityName Portkey, Inc. ... industryGroupType Other Technology ... totalOfferingAmount 3000000 ... totalAmountSold 2699999” | regulatory | 2026-07-10 |
| s17 | [GitHub API repository record for Portkey-AI/gateway (pushed_at, star count, license)](https://api.github.com/repos/Portkey-AI/gateway) “"pushed_at": "2026-05-25T13:54:51Z", "stargazers_count": 12391, "license": MIT License, "archived": false” | other | 2026-07-10 |

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