Jarvis vs Portkey
Honest comparison, updated June 2026. Portkey is an excellent AI gateway — now part of Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS. If you need cloud API middleware for a dev team, it's a fine choice. Jarvis solves a different problem: governing autonomous shadows of you on hardware you own.
| Jarvis | Portkey | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | Your Mac / your office / your pod — works offline | Their cloud (or enterprise VPC tier) |
| What it governs | Agents: actions, tools, spending, autonomy | API requests: routing, retries, keys |
| Human-in-the-loop approvals | ✅ Telegram/WhatsApp buttons, TTL'd, action-bound | — |
| Autonomy levels (L0–L3) with platform floors | ✅ payments/deletes always need approval | — |
| Audit trail | Ed25519-signed, hash-chained, offline-verifiable | Admin-action log |
| Semantic caching | ✅ on-device (pgvector), all tiers | Enterprise tier |
| Log retention | Your disk — unlimited, free | Metered (3–30 days on lower tiers) |
| Memory of your history | ✅ imports your ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini exports, per-company isolation | — |
| Gateway features (routing, fallbacks, budgets, guardrails) | ✅ via embedded gateway + policy engine (see roadmap) | ✅ mature, 1,600+ models |
| Open source | Agent SDK + audit chain (Apache-2.0) | Gateway (MIT) |
DRAFT — claims to be re-verified against current Portkey docs before publication.