Compare 31 free alternatives to Portkey for AI / ML. Every one of their free tier limits side by side, each with the date we last verified it.

Best Portkey Alternatives with Free Tiers (2026)

31 free alternatives in AI / ML. Sorted by pricing stability.

Current Portkey Situation

Risk Level: source unconfirmed
Why: When we last read the page we cite for Portkey, on 2026-09-02, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. We are not publishing a stability judgement for it until that is fixed.
Category: AI / ML
Pricing Page: portkey.ai/

All Free Alternatives (31)

20 of these carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold; their order rotates daily. 8 are demoted with the reason named, and 3 are listed last because they are not generally available or are not a free offer. How we rank.

Left out of this list: Pinecone (shares no subtype with this product), Qdrant (shares no subtype with this product), Deepgram (shares no subtype with this product), Kaggle (shares no subtype with this product), Roboflow (shares no subtype with this product), Scale AI (shares no subtype with this product), AssemblyAI (shares no subtype with this product), Replicate (shares no subtype with this product), Weights & Biases (shares no subtype with this product), Clarifai (we have not classified this record), Neptune.ai (we have not classified this record), Labelbox (shares no subtype with this product), Composio (shares no subtype with this product), DeepAR (none of this category's subtypes apply), OCR.Space (shares no subtype with this product), Parseur (shares no subtype with this product), Reducto (shares no subtype with this product), Tavily AI (shares no subtype with this product), paperspace (shares no subtype with this product), Audio Enhancer (none of this category's subtypes apply), Clair (none of this category's subtypes apply), Langtrace (we have not classified this record), Mediaworkbench.ai (none of this category's subtypes apply), Othor AI (none of this category's subtypes apply), Pollinations.AI (shares no subtype with this product), ReportGPT (none of this category's subtypes apply), Zenable (none of this category's subtypes apply), Exa (shares no subtype with this product), GPU-Bridge (we have not classified this record), Google Vertex AI Agent Engine (we have not classified this record), Google Vector Search 2.0 (shares no subtype with this product), Google Gemini Embedding 2 (shares no subtype with this product), Alibaba Cloud Qwen Code (none of this category's subtypes apply), E2B (shares no subtype with this product), Modal (shares no subtype with this product). Each is still listed in its category, with the vendor's own words we read that from on its page. How we decide this.

Arize AX stable
Free
AI / ML Read and confirmed 2026-09-03
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-08-09
Groq stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-08-15 · tried again 2026-09-13 and did not read the page
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-09-01
Keywords AI stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-08-08
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-19
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-15
Free (Limited)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-16 · catalogue date 2026-08-20
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-09-01
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-03
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-08-20 · tried again 2026-09-16 and did not read the page
Braintrust stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-20
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-08-28 · catalogue date 2026-07-31
Maxim AI stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-07-30
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-15
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-13 · catalogue date 2026-08-09
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-14 · catalogue date 2026-08-10
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-08-17 · tried again 2026-09-16 and did not read the page
Free ($1 credits)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-24
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free ($1 credits)" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Fireworks AI stable
Free ($1 credits)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-07 · catalogue date 2026-08-25
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free ($1 credits)" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Free Credits + Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits + Pay-as-you-go" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Basic (Free Credits)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-10 · catalogue date 2026-08-01
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Basic (Free Credits)" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Trial Key
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-16
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Trial Key" is a trial that expires, not an ongoing free tier.
OpenAI stable
Free
AI / ML Read 2026-09-10
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded product deprecation on 2026-08-26: Assistants API deprecated, full shutdown August 26, 2026. Developers must migrate to Responses API + Conversations API Source: https://community.openai.com/t/assistants-api-beta-deprecation-august-26-2026-sunset/1354666
Free (Reduced)
AI / ML Read 2026-09-03 · catalogue date 2026-08-18
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded product deprecation on 2026-06-01: Gemini 2.0 Flash and 2.0 Flash-Lite will be deprecated June 1, 2026. Developers must migrate to Gemini 2.5 Flash or 3.x Flash models. Google is consolidating the model lineup — 2.0 generation reaching end of life as 2.5 and 3.x become production-ready. Source: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/deprecations
xAI
Free Credits
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-14
−3 free_tier_withdrawn Recorded free tier removal on 2026-04-13: No longer in force (2026-09-05). $25/month free API credits no longer offered — Grok API paid-only No longer in force as of 2026-09-05. This record cites nothing and xAI does not publish its sign-up credit terms on a page we can read, so it cannot be retracted on evidence; it is withdrawn because the claim it makes is contradicted by our own later record. Our xAI offer, verified 2026-08-14 and re-checked 2026-09-02, reads "Sign-up gives $25 in free API credits". Recorded separately: the URL that offer cites, docs.x.ai/developers/models, contains no occurrence of "free", "credit" or "$25" in its 5,452 characters of visible text, so that claim is also uncited and needs a source of its own. We hold no source for this record, so it does not set xAI's rating.
−2 time_limited_offer Tier "Free Credits" is a credit grant that runs out, not an ongoing free tier.
Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Read 2026-09-12 · catalogue date 2026-07-09
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Pay-as-you-go
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-15
not_a_free_offer Tier "Pay-as-you-go" is usage-billed from the first request.
Retired
AI / ML Read 2026-09-02 · catalogue date 2026-08-20
offer_retired GitHub Models's offer is recorded as Retired.
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-17
query_key
alternative-to:Portkey
seed
1ef0b6fd12d5caf9d1c5ae43cce533beb7307c8f81814fd5aeac9a9a55520145
tie_count
20

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best free alternatives to Portkey?
We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 31 free alternatives to Portkey, each listed below with its tier, category and the date we last verified it. Of those, 20 carry no recorded demerit and are indistinguishable under every signal we hold, so they are listed in an order that rotates daily, 8 are demoted with the reason named, 3 are listed last behind a stated gate. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.
Is Portkey's free tier still available?
When we last read the page we cite for Portkey, on 2026-09-02, we found a change we could not reconcile with the terms we publish for it. Our stored record says Portkey offers a free tier (Free), and we are not publishing a stability judgement over it.
How many free alternatives to Portkey exist?
There are 31 free alternatives to Portkey tracked on AgentDeals across the AI / ML category.
Has Portkey changed their pricing?
No, Portkey has no recorded pricing changes on AgentDeals. This indicates stable pricing.

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