Honest, dimension-by-dimension. Where another tool is the better fit for your situation, we say so.
Cloudflare AI Gateway is a hosted edge layer for observability, caching, and rate limiting across AI providers. Perishable is a self-hosted proxy focused on keeping API keys out of client binaries. The differences are where the secret lives and what the browser sees.
Portkey is a feature-rich AI gateway aimed at server-to-server reliability and observability across many providers. Perishable is a smaller, narrower tool focused on one job: not leaking your API key from the browser. Different problems, sometimes deployed together.