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Cloudways vs Portkey

Managed cloud hosting across DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Google Cloud
vs. Enterprise AI gateway + observability + guardrails + prompt mgmt

Cloudways website ↗Portkey website ↗

Pricing tiers

Cloudways

Autonomous — Free Trial
3-day free trial. 1 server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
Free
Flexible — DO Micro
DigitalOcean-backed. 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage, 2 TB bandwidth. Starting tier.
$11/mo
Flexible — DO Medium
4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 160 GB, 5 TB bandwidth.
$88/mo
Autonomous — Growth
WordPress-optimized autoscaling. 1 baseline server, 20 GB disk, 150 GB bandwidth.
$100/mo
Autonomous — Scale
2 baseline servers, 50 GB disk, 250 GB bandwidth.
$200/mo
Flexible — DO 8XL
24 vCPU, 128 GB RAM, 2.56 TB storage, 11 TB bandwidth.
$342/mo
Autonomous — Plus
3 baseline servers, 100 GB disk, 1 TB bandwidth.
$400/mo
Enterprise
Custom autoscale, volume pricing.
Custom
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Portkey

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 10k logs/month. Universal API + key management. 3 prompt templates. Basic observability.
Free
Gateway (OSS)
MIT-licensed gateway only (no observability UI). Self-host for routing/fallbacks.
$0 base (usage-based)
Production
$49/month. 100k logs ($9 per additional 100k). Fallbacks, load balancing, retries, semantic caching. Unlimited prompts. RBAC.
$49/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ logs/month. Custom guardrails, advanced evals, SSO, budget controls, VPC + on-prem, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR.
Custom
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Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing auto-free-trial on Cloudways vs free on Portkey.

MetricCloudwaysPortkey
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Cloudways · 17 features

  • Autonomous (WordPress) — Fully managed WordPress with autoscaling.
  • Backups — Automated daily + on-demand. Retention configurable.
  • Bot Protection — Cloudflare Enterprise bot filtering add-on.
  • Bot Scaler — Autonomous: auto-scale based on traffic patterns.
  • Breeze (WP cache plugin) — In-house WordPress caching plugin.
  • CloudwaysCDN — Built-in CDN add-on (StackPath-backed).
  • Flexible Plans — BYO-sized servers on any of 5 providers. Full control over stack.
  • Free Let's Encrypt SSL — 1-click cert install + auto-renewal.
  • Free Migration — 1 free app migration per plan. Cloudways team moves your site.
  • Horizontal Scaling — Auto-scale app servers (Autonomous plans).
  • Malware Protection — Add-on ($4/app/month). Scan + clean.
  • Object Cache Pro — Included on certain plans. Redis-backed object cache for WP.
  • SafeUpdates — Automated WordPress plugin/theme updates with rollback.
  • Staging Environments — 1-click staging clones with push-to-live.
  • Team Collaboration — Invite team members with granular role permissions.
  • Thunderstack (Optimized) — Apache + Nginx + Varnish + Redis + Memcached preconfigured for speed.
  • Vertical Scaling — Resize server specs without migration.

Portkey · 18 features

  • AI Gateway — Unified OpenAI-compatible API to 250+ LLMs.
  • Alerts — Thresholds on latency, error rate, cost, usage.
  • Budget Controls — Per-key + per-team spending limits.
  • Evaluations — Built-in evaluator templates + custom.
  • Fallbacks — Config-driven provider fallback chains.
  • Guardrails — Pre/post processors for safety + compliance.
  • Load Balancing — Round-robin, weighted, least-latency across providers.
  • MCP Support — Use MCP servers as tools through gateway.
  • Observability — Logs, traces, feedback, alerts, cost tracking.
  • OSS Gateway — Open-source gateway (portkey-ai/gateway).
  • Prompt Library — Shared prompt library + public marketplace.
  • Prompt Templates — Version + test + collaborate on prompts.
  • Retries — Configurable retry policies per route.
  • Role-Based Access Control — Team permissions on prompts + keys.
  • Semantic Caching — Vector-based cache on query meaning.
  • Simple Caching — Exact-match cache.
  • Virtual Keys — Per-app keys with budget + rate limits + permissions.
  • VPC Deployment (Ent) — Deploy in your own VPC for compliance.

Developer interfaces

KindCloudwaysPortkey
CLI—Portkey CLI
SDK—portkey-ai (Node), portkey-ai (Python)
RESTCloudways APIPortkey API (OpenAI-compat)
MCP—Portkey MCP
OTHERCloudways Platform (web UI), Server SSH Access, SFTPPortkey Dashboard
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