Enterprise LLM observability, evaluation, debugging, and prompt testing platform.

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Production AI Gateway and control plane for routing, semantic caching, and guardrails.

Executive Verdict & Recommendation

LangSmith is the premier platform for deep agent trace trees, evaluation datasets, and prompt engineering, while Portkey is the leading AI Gateway for semantic caching, fallback routing, guardrails, and production traffic governance.

Decision Matrix: Which Should You Choose?

Choose LangSmith if...

    Choose Portkey if...