---
sidebar_label: Portkey AI
description: Integrate Portkey AI gateway with promptfoo for LLM testing, including prompt management, observability, and custom configurations with OpenAI models and APIs.
---

# Portkey AI integration

Portkey is an AI observability suite that includes prompt management capabilities.

To reference prompts in Portkey:

1. Set the `PORTKEY_API_KEY` environment variable.

2. Use the `portkey://` prefix for your prompts, followed by the Portkey prompt ID. For example:

   ```yaml
   prompts:
     - 'portkey://pp-test-promp-669f48'

   providers:
     - openai:gpt-5-mini

   tests:
     - vars:
         topic: ...
   ```

Variables from your promptfoo test cases will be automatically plugged into the Portkey prompt as variables. The resulting prompt will be rendered and returned to promptfoo, and used as the prompt for the test case.

Note that promptfoo does not follow the temperature, model, and other parameters set in Portkey. You must set them in the `providers` configuration yourself.

## Using Portkey gateway

The Portkey AI gateway is directly supported by promptfoo. See also:

- [Portkey's documentation on integrating promptfoo](https://portkey.ai/docs/integrations/libraries/promptfoo)

Example:

```yaml
providers:
  id: portkey:gpt-5-mini
  config:
    portkeyProvider: openai
```

More complex portkey configurations are also supported.

```yaml
providers:
  id: portkey:gpt-5-mini
  config:
    # Can alternatively set environment variable, e.g. PORTKEY_API_KEY
    portkeyApiKey: xxx

    # Other configuration options
    portkeyVirtualKey: xxx
    portkeyMetadata:
      team: xxx
    portkeyConfig: xxx
    portkeyProvider: xxx
    portkeyApiBaseUrl: xxx
```