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Customers who want a neutral, framework-agnostic AI gateway under a permissive Apache 2.0 licence have a clear reason to evaluate an independent alternative.

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FAQ

On the gateway feature set (205 providers, failover, retry, BYOK, usage/token tracking) yes. Tracelane adds inline heuristic predictive guardrails, an audit ledger with an EU AI Act Article 12 control mapping, and OTel GenAI semconv as the canonical wire format. Portkey ships a guardrails library; Tracelane ships inline heuristic guardrails that run on every request.
Tracelane reads OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Google-shaped requests directly. There is no Portkey config importer; you re-create your provider list, fallback chain and BYOK keys in Tracelane.
Verified as of 2026-08-26 against each vendor’s public documentation and public repositories. A — means we found no such capability documented at that date — not that the vendor lacks it. Vendors change their products; if anything here is inaccurate or out of date, please open an issue and we will correct it.