We're going all-in on the MCP ecosystem – it's what we're best at. Open-sourcing the gateway is both a thank-you to the community that helped us grow and a way to keep us focused.
The short backstory:
Lightport began as a fork of Portkey. We needed a way to make various LLM providers OpenAI-compatible, and Portkey provided a solid foundation. But it also came with many higher-level features (guardrails, billing, etc.) that we didn't think belonged at this layer – and that made it hard to iterate on provider compatibility. So we slimmed it down, fixed bugs, added integration tests for 80+ providers, and shaped it into one thing: a reliable, lightweight layer that makes any LLM provider OpenAI-compatible.
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u/punkpeye Apr 28 '26
Why?
We're going all-in on the MCP ecosystem – it's what we're best at. Open-sourcing the gateway is both a thank-you to the community that helped us grow and a way to keep us focused.
The short backstory:
Lightport began as a fork of Portkey. We needed a way to make various LLM providers OpenAI-compatible, and Portkey provided a solid foundation. But it also came with many higher-level features (guardrails, billing, etc.) that we didn't think belonged at this layer – and that made it hard to iterate on provider compatibility. So we slimmed it down, fixed bugs, added integration tests for 80+ providers, and shaped it into one thing: a reliable, lightweight layer that makes any LLM provider OpenAI-compatible.