Oberhahn vs. Portkey
Portkey governs the traffic on its gateway (and ingests OpenTelemetry data). Oberhahn measures usage, spend, and individual impact across the organization, gateway or not.
Portkey is an AI gateway: route across providers, add caching, and apply guardrails on requests it handles. Oberhahn is not in the request path by default, it focuses on real-time visibility and per-person attribution across all AI usage. Here is how they compare.
and climbing, including the AI usage that never touches your gateway
of AI usage runs agent-driven and unattended
and tool, not only the traffic you route
| Feature | Oberhahn | Portkey |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage & reach | ||
| Coverage beyond instrumented apps & routed traffic | Yes | |
| Security | ||
| Session-level tracing | Yes | |
| Audit logs | Yes | |
| Context intelligence | ||
| Tracks repeated context | Yes | |
| Attribution | ||
| Per-person attribution, every tool, no manual tagging | Yes | |
| Agentic & autonomous work | ||
| Unattended vs. interactive classification | Yes | |
| Real capacity incl. background agents | Yes | |
| Runaway-agent loop detection | Yes | |
| Key-person / concentration risk | Yes | |
| Open & extensible | ||
| Build your own AI-attribution views | Yes | |
Straight talk for engineers: Oberhahn reports billed cash only, status means completion not quality, and interactive-vs-automated is a classification, not a judgment. No individual-hour surveillance, and no capacity baseline unless you set one.
Beyond the request path, a model of the org
Portkey governs the traffic flowing through its gateway. Oberhahn sees the whole picture, including the AI usage that never touches a gateway. The Floor, the Rhythm, and the Organizational Map render how every person and agent uses AI in real time, routed or not.
Then let individuals prove their impact
A gateway groups by route and key; Oberhahn groups by people. Individuals surface what they shipped with AI, and managers find champions and unowned workflows across teams and providers.
- Individuals surface the work they shipped with AI
- Managers find champions and unowned, high-value workflows
- Attribution rolls up to teams, projects, and reviews
And build on an open layer, not the request path
Portkey is extensible at the gateway and accepts OpenTelemetry data. Oberhahn is extensible at the org layer: send custom events from any agent, query your data, and build your own views, visibility that is not tied to routing traffic through one path, with no lock-in.
- Visibility that is not tied to the request path
- Send custom events and query your data via API
- Build your own views; export everything, no lock-in
Choose Oberhahn if you
- Agents run unattended, including outside your gateway
- You want visibility that is not tied to the request path
- You want interactive vs. unattended usage classified out of the box
- Individual and team attribution matter
- You need a view across providers and tools, not just routed traffic
Choose Portkey if you
- You want a routing/gateway layer in front of models
- Guardrails and fallbacks at request time are the goal
- Caching through the gateway cuts your cost
- You are standardizing model access on one gateway
- Is Oberhahn a gateway?
- No. Oberhahn is a visibility and attribution layer. If you need routing, fallbacks, and request-time guardrails, a gateway like Portkey does that job.
- Can they work together?
- Yes. Run Portkey for routing and Oberhahn for org-wide visibility and attribution.
- Do I have to change my request path for Oberhahn?
- No, which is a key difference from a gateway that sits inline.
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