Palo Alto Networks has announced its intent to acquire Portkey, a pioneer in AI gateways.
Portkey will serve as the AI gateway for Palo Alto’s Prisma AIRS service, acting as the central nervous system that can monitor, route and secure every AI transaction across the enterprise.
According to Palo Alto, fragmented security tools have forced a choice between innovation and safety. By establishing Portkey as the AI Gateway for Prisma AIRS, Palo Alto Networks is eliminating that trade-off. Its unified architecture allows organizations to move autonomous workloads into production with built-in security, reliability and management, designed to:
- Secure AI interactions: Portkey will inspect AI traffic and security and governance policies for prevention at runtime, to identify threats and safeguard data.
- Ensure mission-critical reliability. Organizations can now achieve 99.99% uptime for autonomous workloads through semantic routing and automated failovers, ensuring peak performance at scale. This reliability is paired with deep technical telemetry and audit logs, providing the real-time visibility and governance required to inspect every AI interaction.
- Global AI Governance. Centralized artifact management allows seamless versioning and secure access control across all AI models, agents and MCP servers, transforming fragmented AI experiments into a disciplined, global production engine. In addition, organizations can now eliminate “bill shock” and dramatically reduce operational costs through caching techniques and granular quotas, while accessing over 3,000 LLMs and MCP tools via a unified interface.
Following the close, Palo Alto Networks will continue to support existing and new Portkey customers, who will also be able to benefit from the tighter integration with Prisma AIRS as part of a comprehensive AI Security platform.
The transaction is expected to close during Palo Alto’s fourth quarter in fiscal 2026.
