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Portkey + multi-LLM gateway setup

Production-grade AI agents with failover, load balancing, caching across 250+ LLMs from 45+ providers without vendor lock-in.

Prerequisites

  • Node.js/npm for local gateway
  • Python/pip install portkey-ai
  • Provider API keys (OpenAI
  • Anthropic
  • etc.)
  • Optional: Portkey account for hosted/virtual keys/configs.

Further reading