MCP and AI gateways · #3 by signal score
Portkey
AI gateway with an MCP gateway for centralized authentication, per-server access control, credential brokering, and request logging. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks in 2026; its gateway now ships in Prisma AIRS.
Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, announced 2026-04-30, closed 2026-05-29 ($117M, per SEC filing). Now sold as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway.
34Signal score / 100
- Capital
- 4.5/35
- Product
- 19/25
- Standards
- 0/20(not yet assessed)
- Momentum
- 10/20
Identity primitives
| Agent as a first-class identity | No public claim found |
| On-behalf-of token exchange | Not checked |
| Cross App Access (ID-JAG) | Not checked |
| Asynchronous human approval (CIBA) | Not checked |
| MCP authorization conformance | No public claim found |
| Fine-grained authorization | No public claim found |
| Short-lived, secretless credentials | Not checked |
| Token vault | Claimed |
| Kill switch | Claimed |
| Per-action audit chain | No public claim found |
Company
HQ: US
Funding: $18M disclosed, latest Series A
Product: Portkey AI Gateway
Open source
13,071 stars · 123 contributors
Last push 2026-05-25
Sources
- Portkey docs: MCP Gateway (vendor, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Portkey docs: MCP Gateway authorization (vendor, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Palo Alto Networks completes acquisition of Portkey to secure AI agents (press-release, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Portkey raises $15M Series A to scale the unified control plane for production AI (press-release, accessed 2026-09-23)
- Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended July 31, 2026 (sec, accessed 2026-09-23)
Last verified 2026-09-23.