Pick Portkey if
platform teams who will put a gateway in front of several providers and pay when logs exceed 10k.
Read the Portkey pagePortkey vs Traceloop
Our take
Pick Portkey if you're on a platform team who will put a gateway in front of several providers and pay when logs exceed 10k. Pick Traceloop if you're on a team who will stay on Free at $0 (50k spans, 5 seats, 24-hour retention) while they open a first Trace details, then Enterprise when they need >50k spans or on-prem. Skip Portkey if you're solo builders who only need a request table and a $0 Hobby card (Helicone).
Best for
Portkey Route and observe production LLM calls
Traceloop OTel LLM spans at $0 / 50k
Free plan
Portkey $0 · for the gateway. Universal API, retries, routing, basic dashboard. Community support
Traceloop $0 · /month. Up to 50k spans / month. Up to 5 seats. 24-hour retention. Monitoring + evaluation dashboards. CI/CD. Prompt management
Lowest paid
Portkey Production $49/mo
Traceloop Not published by the vendor
Runs where
Portkey Local or hosted
Traceloop Local or hosted
Watch out
Portkey Developer drops logs after 10k
Traceloop Free retention is 24 hours
Last checked
Portkey 2026-10-22 · portkey.ai/pricing
Traceloop 2026-10-27 · traceloop.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Traceloop if
teams who will stay on Free at $0 (50k spans, 5 seats, 24-hour retention) while they open a first Trace details, then Enterprise when they need >50k spans or on-prem.
Read the Traceloop page