NeoAI / Portkey
Portkey manages your AI requests. NeoAI optimizes what happens inside them.
Portkey is an edge AI gateway managing API keys, rate limits, virtual keys, and request-level load balancing. NeoAI sits behind Portkey inside your VPC: it decomposes multi-step tasks, routes each sub-step to the cheapest model tier that passes your quality bar, and distils reviewer corrections into reusable workflow recipes.
Last updated 25 Oct 2026 · By NeoAI
Better together: Portkey at the edge, NeoAI inside your VPC.
Edge Layer · Portkey Gateway
VPC Layer · NeoAI Delegation Engine
Architecture topology. Illustrative NeoAI connects behind Portkey with one upstream config change.
Side-by-side technical comparison.
| Capability | Portkey Gateway | NeoAI Delegation |
|---|---|---|
| Primary Focus | API Governance & Edge Observability | Step-Level Cost & Rework Reduction |
| Routing Unit | Per-Request (picks 1 model for prompt) | Per-Substep (mixes tiers within task) |
| Deployment Model | Cloud Managed or Hybrid Gateway | 100% Inside Customer VPC |
| Quality Feedback | User feedback tags / Log traces | Distilled DAG recipes from reviewer diffs |
| Handling Failures | Provider fallbacks & retries | Automatic tier escalation at step gate |
| Commercial Model | SaaS per request / Seat fee | Gainshare (paid only from savings) |
Portkey is a trademark of Portkey AI. Comparison reflects published architectures as of October 2026.
Gateways log token spend. NeoAI eliminates rework hours.
The Gateway Blind Spot
Portkey logs that a request took 1,200 tokens and 800ms. It cannot tell whether the output was rejected or required 20 minutes of staff edits.
Recipe Distillation
NeoAI captures the differences between accepted runs and manual corrections, synthesizing concrete validation gates so work succeeds on pass 1.
Compound Economics
Reducing attempts cuts both total token consumption and human review time, driving the true cost per accepted task down 70% or more.
Illustrative resume screening benchmark. Illustrative Your pilot measures your actual workflow numbers.
Questions buyers ask before they book.
Do I replace Portkey with NeoAI?
No. NeoAI is designed to sit behind Portkey. You keep Portkey for API key governance, provider load balancing, and edge caching. In your app or Portkey config, you simply route upstream requests through NeoAI in your VPC.
Why can't Portkey optimize step-level model costs?
Portkey sees requests as atomic units passing through its gateway proxy. It cannot decompose an prompt into discrete sub-steps, run assertions against rubric gates, or escalate individual failed sub-steps without failing the whole request.
How do the pricing models differ?
Portkey charges per request or enterprise subscription for gateway infrastructure. NeoAI operates purely on gainshare: you pay a share of measured savings against a verified baseline on your own evaluation tasks. No savings, no fee.
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