ClawPipe vs Portkey

When you want a pipeline, not just a proxy. Portkey is the breadth-and-guardrails leader (1,600+ models, PII redaction). ClawPipe leads on pre-LLM cost avoidance and self-learning routing.

Honest feature matrix

Choose ClawPipe if...

• You want to avoid LLM calls entirely — Booster runs deterministic rules before the network hop. Skip rate per workload pending public measured benchmark.
• You want routing that adapts to your traffic (weighted bandit), not a config file you maintain by hand.
• Your stack is polyglot — we ship native TypeScript, Python, Go, PHP, .NET, Elixir SDKs.

Choose Portkey if...

• You need 1,600+ models on day one — Portkey's catalog is the broadest in the category.
• PII redaction and prompt-injection guardrails are mandatory (regulated buyers — healthcare, fintech). ClawPipe ships no guardrails module today.
• You want a proven enterprise dashboard out of the box.

Pricing snapshot

Migration from Portkey

// before — Portkey gateway
import Portkey from 'portkey-ai';
const portkey = new Portkey({ apiKey: 'pk-...' });

// after — ClawPipe SDK (or keep OpenAI client + swap base URL)
import { ClawPipe } from 'clawpipe-ai';
const pipe = new ClawPipe({ apiKey: 'cp_...' });
const { text } = await pipe.prompt(messages);

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