Haystack vs Portkey

Haystack is an open-source AI orchestration framework for developers building agents, multimodal applications, advanced retrieval-augmented generation systems and scalable search. Applications are assembled as modular pipelines from components such as retrievers, routers, memory layers, tools, evaluators and generators. Pipelines can run on users’ own infrastructure and be served as REST APIs or MCP servers with Hayhooks. The integrations directory lists 189 options across model providers, vector databases, monitoring tools and community components, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Elasticsearch, Pinecone and Datadog. A separate Enterprise Platform adds a visual pipeline builder, debugging, templates, indexing, a playground, prompt exploration, deployment and monitoring tools. It can run in managed cloud or self-hosted infrastructure and exposes a REST API. Listed enterprise security and compliance provisions include SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, CSA Star Level 1, RBAC, audit logs, traces, guardrails and SSO. A free platform trial is available by form request and includes cloud infrastructure for prototypes.

Portkey is a platform for managing, observing, and governing generative AI across teams. Its gateway offers a unified API for models and providers across modalities, with configurable routing, failovers, retries, and load balancing. Monitoring tools include logs, traces, feedback, metadata, filters, and alerts; prompt management adds templates, a playground, API endpoints, versioning, and variables. Listed integrations include OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure, Amazon Bedrock, and Ollama, as well as agent frameworks including CrewAI, LangChain, LangGraph, and the OpenAI Agents SDK. The gateway offers simple and semantic caching for repeat requests. Security features include virtual provider keys, access controls, inbound IP and geographic rules, and sensitive-data redaction. Self-hosted and local deployment options are listed, while Enterprise adds private cloud deployment and VPC hosting. Developer is free and includes 10k recorded logs/month, 3 days log retention, and 30 days metrics retention. Production costs $49 a month, billed $49/month, with 100k recorded logs/month and production support. Enterprise pricing is custom. Portkey lists San Francisco as its headquarters and March 2023 as its launch date.