Comparison

Cloptima vs Portkey

Portkey, now Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, is a mature gateway with routing, caching, and a broad guardrail catalog. Cloptima is built around governance you can prove: one policy on every request, personal data redacted before the provider and restored in the response, budgets held before the call, and an attributed spend record for chargeback and unit economics — on a hosted gateway or a private edge gateway in your VPC.

FeatureCloptimaPortkey
AI FinOps Capabilities
Full request latency (p95), governance and execution includedp95 7–9msNot published as a policy-on measurement
Policy on every requestNo policy, no traffic: a request without a policy you bound is refused with a clear reasonConfigs attached to keys or requests
GuardrailsBuilt-in credential detection and personal-data rules, plus Azure AI Content Safety, AWS Bedrock Guardrails, Google Model Armor, a webhook, or Cloptima-managed scans20+ deterministic and LLM-based checks plus partner guardrails, by plan tier
Redact and restorePersonal data and secrets are redacted before the provider sees them, then restored to the original text in the response, including streamed responses, tool calls, and structured outputGuardrails can transform content, such as redacting PII
Guardrail rollout and outagesMonitor only before enforcing, versioned and audited profiles, and a per-profile choice when a scan cannot run, with Not checked recordsAsync checks that log, or synchronous checks that deny
BudgetsDaily and monthly budgets per team, app, environment, or key, one org-wide ceiling, Alert only or Block, held before the provider callCost and token usage limits and rate limits
Org baseline policyOne organization-wide baseline for models, tools, guardrails, limits, and budgets. Every request gets its own policy plus the baseline, and the stricter setting wins, so teams can tighten the rules but never loosen themConfigs per key or request
MCP and tool governanceAllow and deny lists for tool servers and tools (denied tools are taken out of the request), approvals before a server goes live, tool definition changes flagged, and spend by tool, set per policy on top of your org baselineRemote MCP server support
Response cachingPolicy-scoped exact and semantic cache, both with Monitor only before ServeSimple and semantic caching
Spend record and chargebackAttributed spend record by team, app, environment, and your own fields, with chargeback, AI unit economics, and FOCUS exportUsage analytics and metadata-based reporting
Private deploymentPrivate edge gateway in your VPC with guardrails, budgets, and policy enforced locallyOpen-source gateway and self-hosted deployments
Use models without provider keysManaged credits at provider list prices, or bring your own keysBring your own provider keys
Where Cloptima fits

When Cloptima is the better fit

Governance That Starts Closed

Every request needs a policy you bound. There is no implicit default, so shadow AI turns into a visible error a developer fixes in a minute.

Protect Data Without Breaking Apps

Personal data is redacted before the provider sees it and restored to the original text in the response, so it stays out of model providers while answers stay useful.

Guardrails Priced, Not Just Enforced

Local rules run first, so a request they block never pays for a provider scan. Scan cost is reported beside the spend it protects, and every profile change is versioned and audited.

Full Governance At Negligible Latency Cost

Cloptima publishes what a fully governed request costs end to end, guardrails on real personal data included. See our benchmark for the current figures.

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