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Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey: 2026 Comparison of PII Protection for LLM Apps

Choose Enigma Vault NoPII if you need customer PII tokenized before it reaches the model provider and restored in the response, while you should choose Portkey if you need an AI gateway for routing, caching, and observability with PII redaction as one guardrail among many.

AK Abhilash Kumar Nov 10, 2026 16 min read
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    Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey both sit between your application and the LLM provider and can keep names, emails, and account numbers out of your prompts.

    Portkey is a full-featured AI gateway with routing, observability, caching, and 60+ guardrails including PII redaction, whereas Enigma Vault NoPII does one thing: deterministic PII tokenization for LLM traffic, with real values restored in the response. The question is whether your PII protection needs a dedicated solution or a gateway feature.

    This guide compares Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey, now Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, on architecture, features, pricing, compliance, and reviews.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey at a Glance

    VendorEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey (Prisma AIRS AI Gateway)
    Best forTeams that need PII out of their own app’s LLM calls without losing contextTeams that need one gateway for many models, with routing, caching, and observability
    What it does with PIITokenizes it, then restores real values in the responseRedacts it with placeholders; its docs say this is irreversible
    Entry priceFree, then $49/moFree Developer plan; Production $49/mo
    Free optionLite: 1M protected tokens a month, no card, no expiryDeveloper: 10,000 logs a month, labelled not for production
    DeploymentManaged cloud; self-hosted edition on EnterpriseHosted; open-source gateway; private cloud or VPC on Enterprise
    G25/5 (1)4.6/5 (18)
    Next stepOne million protected tokens a month free. No card needed.

    Figures are as of 10 November 2026, from each vendor’s own site and docs, and from G2 and Capterra. For more options, see our list of the best PII tokenization software for LLMs.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey: Quick Verdict

    Enigma Vault NoPII: A hosted privacy proxy for LLM APIs. You change your model client’s base URL, and Enigma Vault NoPII swaps PII, secrets, and API keys for consistent tokens before the request reaches the model provider, then restores the real values in the response. It fronts 9 providers, is free for one million protected tokens a month, and runs on Enigma Vault’s platform, which is PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 2 Type II.

    Portkey: An AI gateway with a unified API across many models, plus fallbacks, load balancing, caching, budgets, observability, an MCP gateway, and a guardrails framework. PII redaction is one of those guardrails, and its docs describe it as one-way. Portkey was acquired by Palo Alto Networks in May 2026.

    I’d point you to Enigma Vault NoPII first if the job is keeping customer data out of what your model provider sees:

    • You need the model’s answer to come back with the real names and numbers in it, not placeholders.
    • You want the same customer to map to the same token across a conversation, so the model can still reason about who is who.
    • You want a log your auditor can read that never stores plaintext, and erasure by token purge.
    • You want to prove it on real traffic for free before you talk to anyone.

    Portkey’s real strength is everything around the model call: routing across providers, retries and fallbacks, caching, cost tracking, and one place to see every request. It matters most if you’re running many models and teams and need a control plane for all of them, with PII redaction as a checkbox rather than the main job.

    Enigma Vault NoPII

    Enigma Vault NoPII changes one line in your model client. Detection, tokenization, restore, and the fail-closed block are identical on every plan, including the free Lite tier.

    • Choose Enigma Vault NoPII if: PII protection is the requirement, your app needs real values back in responses, and you want a published price and a free tier to test with.
    • Choose Portkey if: You need a full AI gateway for many models and teams, and one-way redaction of a handful of PII types is enough for your use case.

    Verdict: Portkey manages your LLM traffic, whereas Enigma Vault NoPII protects the personal data inside it. If the question is how to keep PII from the model provider without breaking your AI feature, Enigma Vault NoPII answers it more directly.

    Privacy Proxy or AI Gateway: How Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey Differ at the Core

    Enigma Vault NoPII is built around one task, which is swapping sensitive values for tokens and swapping them back, while Portkey is built around managing model traffic, with guardrails that can check or change a request on the way through.

    To make it concrete, follow one support message on its way to an LLM.

    StepEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    1. Your app sends a ticket with a name, email, and card numberThe request goes to the Enigma Vault NoPII base URL with your provider key, as usualThe request goes to the Portkey gateway with a config that names the guardrails to run
    2. The model receivesConsistent tokens: the same customer maps to the same token across the conversationPlaceholders such as {{EMAIL_ADDRESS_1}}, if a redaction guardrail is turned on
    3. The reply comes backReal values restored in the response, including streamed outputThe placeholders stay; Portkey’s docs describe no restore step
    4. If detection failsThe request is blocked; this is not a settingSet per guardrail in your Portkey config
    5. What you can auditToken, masked value, entity type, confidence, session, provider, model, and time; never plaintextRequest logs and guardrail verdicts in the observability dashboard
    Next stepPortkey’s free Developer plan includes basic guardrails only.

    Enigma Vault NoPII’s Architecture: A reverse proxy in front of the provider’s API. There is no Enigma Vault NoPII SDK and no Enigma Vault NoPII API key; it identifies your account from the provider key already in the request and stores only a hash of it.

    Portkey’s Architecture: A gateway that sits between your app and many providers, applying routing rules, caches, budgets, and guardrails defined in a config. PII redaction is a toggle on a guardrail, or a partner integration such as AWS Bedrock Guardrails, Azure, or Pangea.

    Tokenization vs Redaction: What Reaches the Model and What Comes Back

    This is the difference that decides whether your AI feature still works. Here is one prompt as each product would handle it, based on each vendor’s documented behavior.

    StageWhat happens
    Original prompt“Draft a refund email to Maria Lopez (maria@example.com). Maria was charged twice.”
    Sent by Enigma Vault NoPIIMaria’s name and email become tokens, and both mentions of Maria get the same name token, so the model still knows it is one person.
    Sent by Portkey with redaction onMaria’s email becomes {{EMAIL_ADDRESS_1}}, with numbered placeholders for other detected values.
    Returned by Enigma Vault NoPIIA draft addressed to Maria Lopez at maria@example.com, with the real values restored before your app sees it.
    Returned through PortkeyA draft containing the placeholders, which your own code would have to replace, with no mapping documented by Portkey.

    Redaction is the right call when you never need the values back, for example when you are only classifying a ticket. Tokenization is the right call when the answer has to go back to a customer or into a system of record. Our guide to tokenization vs masking vs redaction for AI covers the trade-off in depth.

    Enigma Vault NoPII

    Enigma Vault NoPII also neutralizes context phrases that can trigger model safety refusals, so a prompt about a patient or a lawsuit is less likely to be refused once its identifiers are tokenized.

    Context Phrase Neutralization: Why Redacted Prompts Get Refused

    Removing a value is only half the job. If the words around it still say “social security number,” models can recognize a sensitive category and refuse the request. Enigma Vault NoPII rewrites those labels in the proxy, while Portkey’s docs describe value replacement only.

    Label in your promptEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey PII redaction
    social security numberRewritten to “ID number”Label kept; the number becomes a placeholder
    credit card numberRewritten to “account number”Label kept; the number becomes a placeholder
    date of birthRewritten to “date”Label kept; no date placeholder in the pre-built check
    passport numberRewritten to “document number”Label kept; needs a regex or partner guardrail
    The value itselfA consistent token, restored in the responseA placeholder such as {{EMAIL_ADDRESS_1}}, not restored
    Next stepBring a prompt that gets refused today and compare the two outputs.

    Portkey’s pre-built PII check covers phone, email, location, IP address, SSN, names, and credit card, so dates and passport numbers need your own rules. If refusals or missing types are a problem in your redacted prompts, this is the difference to test.

    Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey Features Side by Side

    Compare Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey on PII handling, LLM guardrails, detection, streaming, agents, gateway features, and deployment. Enigma Vault NoPII goes deep on protecting personal data in LLM traffic, whereas Portkey goes wide on managing that traffic.

    FeatureEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    PII handlingReversible, deterministic tokenizationOne-way redaction with placeholders
    Restore values in responsesAutomatic, including streamed outputNot documented
    Built-in PII types11 on by default, 25+ opt-in per workspacePhone, email, location, IP address, SSN, names, and credit card
    Secrets and API keys14 credential pattern families, same passThrough regex or partner guardrails
    Custom terms25 to 500 by planRegex match guardrails
    Partner detectorsNot offeredAWS Bedrock, Azure, Pangea, Patronus, and others
    StreamingTokens replaced on the fly as chunks arriveOutput guardrails run after the stream ends, informational only
    Agents and tool callsDetection on tool-call arguments and tool resultsMCP gateway for auth, access, and observability
    EmbeddingsEmbeddings endpoint tokenized the same way as chatRouted through the gateway
    Failure behaviorFail-closed block, alwaysConfigurable per guardrail
    Providers9 providers, plus LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, LiteLLM, and Vercel AI SDKMarketed as 1,600+ LLMs
    Routing, fallbacks, and cachingNot offeredIncluded
    Cost tracking and budgetsNot offeredIncluded
    Images, audio, and filesNot covered (text only)Depends on the partner guardrail
    Audit logPII-specific log, never plaintext; 7 days on Lite to unlimited on EnterpriseRequest logs; 3 days on Developer, 30 on Production
    DeploymentManaged; self-hosted on EnterpriseHosted; MIT open-source gateway; VPC on Enterprise
    Next stepPortkey’s pages give different model counts: 1,600+ on its homepage and 250+ in its GitHub README.

    Here is how the biggest differences play out in practice.

    Where Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey Differ in Practice

    PII Detection and Entity Coverage

    Portkey’s built-in PII guardrail covers seven types: phone number, email, location, IP address, SSN, names, and credit card. Its docs say these patterns are standardized and not customizable for the pre-built check, though you can add your own regex rules or call a partner such as Azure or AWS Bedrock Guardrails.

    Enigma Vault NoPII turns on 11 entity types by default and lets you switch on more than 25 others per workspace, including regional identifiers. It checks checksums where the format allows, catches 14 families of credentials in the same pass, and lets you add 25 to 500 custom terms depending on plan.

    Restoring Real Values in Responses

    Portkey’s PII redaction docs say redaction is irreversible by design and the transformation is one-way. If your feature writes a reply to a customer, your own code has to put the values back, and Portkey documents no mapping to do it with.

    Enigma Vault NoPII keeps a mapping in Enigma Vault and restores the real values in the response before your app sees it. Real values are revealed only to the end user who created the token, within their own session, under a time-boxed reveal grant, or to a server key with an opt-in scope, and every reveal attempt is logged.

    Streaming Responses

    Portkey’s guardrails docs say input guardrails run before the stream starts, while output guardrails run on the full response after the stream completes and take no action, so their results are informational only.

    Enigma Vault NoPII

    Enigma Vault NoPII replaces tokens as each chunk arrives, so latency impact stays small even on long completions. Tool-call arguments are buffered until the call completes and released as one piece, so a token split across chunks never breaks the JSON your agent is parsing.

    Agents, Tool Calls, and MCP

    Portkey offers an MCP gateway that centralizes authentication, access, and observability for MCP servers. That is valuable if you run many agents against many tools.

    Enigma Vault NoPII is not an MCP gateway. It runs detection on message content, system prompts, tool-call arguments, and tool results, so an agent that reads a ticket and calls a CRM never sends the customer’s details to the model provider in either direction.

    Routing, Caching, Fallbacks, and Observability

    This is Portkey’s home ground. It offers a unified API, automatic fallbacks, load balancing, retries, simple and semantic caching, budgets, rate limits, and a dashboard that reviewers on G2 single out. Enigma Vault NoPII does none of this; it fronts 9 providers and keeps your privacy controls the same when you switch between them.

    Enigma Vault NoPII does support tracing: Langfuse tracing on Growth and above records tokenized content only, and Enigma Vault NoPII honors the W3C traceparent header for OpenTelemetry.

    Deployment and Self-Hosting

    Portkey’s gateway is open source under the MIT license, and you can run it yourself for free. Its GitHub README lists PII redaction under the enterprise version, though, and Enterprise adds private cloud, VPC hosting, and data isolation.

    Enigma Vault NoPII runs as NoPII Cloud on every plan. The self-hosted edition runs the proxy and vault inside your own environment under an annual Enterprise license with no token meter.

    What Portkey’s Own PII Docs Say

    Portkey does not publish a comparison page against Enigma Vault NoPII, so the fairest view of its PII features is its own documentation. Here is what it says, in plain terms.

    • Redaction Is One-Way: The docs say redaction is irreversible by design. That suits logging and classification, and it does not suit replies that must contain real values.
    • Pre-Built Patterns Are Fixed: The docs say redaction patterns are not customizable for the pre-built guardrail, though regex rules can be added.
    • Detect Is Not Redact: The Pro “Detect PII” check returns a yes or no verdict. Changing the request requires a redaction guardrail.
    • Plan Limits Apply: The guardrails docs give the free Developer plan basic, deterministic checks only, with partner and Pro guardrails on Production and Enterprise.
    • Streaming Output Is Monitored, Not Changed: Output guardrail results on streamed responses are informational.

    Portkey’s guardrail counts also vary across its pages, from 20+ deterministic checks in the docs to 60+ guardrails on its features page, so ask which ones apply to PII on your plan.

    Portkey After the Palo Alto Networks Acquisition

    Palo Alto Networks completed its acquisition of Portkey on 29 May 2026 and announced general availability of Prisma AIRS AI Gateway on 16 July 2026. Here is what that means if you are evaluating it now.

    What changedWhat it means for you
    Portkey’s pages now say Portkey is Prisma AIRS AI GatewayContracts, support, and roadmap now run through Palo Alto Networks
    Runtime inspection is powered by Prisma AIRSThe gateway is becoming part of a larger security platform
    The portkey.ai pricing page still lists Developer, Production, and EnterpriseAsk whether self-serve plans and prices will stay the same
    G2 now lists Palo Alto Networks as the vendorReviews written before the deal describe the startup product

    For a large company already on Palo Alto Networks, that may be welcome. For a small team that chose Portkey as a startup tool, it is worth asking about pricing and roadmap before renewal.

    Why Not Build It on Portkey’s Open-Source Gateway?

    Portkey’s gateway is MIT-licensed, so some teams plan to add their own tokenization around it. That is possible, and here is what the build involves.

    Piece you would buildWhat it must doIn Enigma Vault NoPII
    Detection libraryFind PII and secrets across regions and languages11 types on by default, 25+ opt-in, 14 credential families
    Token vaultStore mappings with per-customer keys and expiryEnigma Vault, AES-256, token retention by plan
    Proxy layerSwap values both ways, including streams and tool callsBuilt in, fail-closed on any error
    Admin consoleEntity settings, keys, workspaces, and rolesDashboard, PII settings, and live playground
    Audit loggingProve what was protected without storing plaintextToken, masked value, entity, confidence, provider, and model

    Each piece works on its own, and the seams between them are where data leaks. Enigma Vault NoPII replaces the whole build with a base-URL change, maintained as a product rather than a backlog item.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey Pricing

    Enigma Vault NoPII Plans and Prices

    Enigma Vault NoPII bills on protected tokens, which means everything in a request or response that flows through the proxy. Every plan includes every provider, detection, tokenization, restore, and the audit trail.

    Enigma Vault NoPII planWhat you get
    Lite, free1M protected tokens a month, hard cap, no card; 1-day token retention; 7-day log history
    Starter, $49/mo ($550/yr)50M tokens, then $1.00 per million; 30-day retention; browser SDK
    Growth, $249/mo ($2,700/yr)500M tokens, then $0.80 per million; workspaces, 5 users, Langfuse, CSV log export
    Business, $499/mo ($5,500/yr)2B tokens, then $0.60 per million; SSO, reveal grants, staff access log
    Enterprise, customCustom token band and retention, SLA, BAA, and the self-hosted edition
    Start on Lite with real traffic, then upgrade in the console.

    How Portkey Prices Its Plans

    Portkey bills on recorded logs, and its pricing page lists four options. Exceeding a log limit does not block requests; logs past the limit are simply not recorded.

    • Open Source: Free to host yourself, with community support.
    • Developer: Free, 10,000 recorded logs a month, 3 days of log retention, basic guardrails only, and labelled not suitable for production.
    • Production: $49 a month for 100,000 recorded logs, plus $9 per additional 100,000, with 30 days of log retention.
    • Enterprise: Custom, with 10 million or more logs, custom retention, VPC hosting, SSO, and custom BAAs.

    Capterra lists Portkey as contact the vendor for pricing, with no free trial.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey Cost at Four Stages

    StageEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    Trying it outLite: 1M protected tokens a month, full PII protectionDeveloper: free, basic guardrails only
    First production feature$49/mo (Starter, 50M tokens)$49/mo (Production, 100,000 logs)
    Growing workload$249/mo (Growth, 500M tokens)$49/mo plus $9 per extra 100,000 logs
    Large or regulated deployment$499/mo (Business), or Enterprise with self-hosting and a BAAEnterprise quote, with VPC and custom BAAs
    Next stepThe units differ: protected tokens against recorded logs. Run your own traffic through each.

    How to Read This Table: Portkey counts logged requests and Enigma Vault NoPII counts the tokens that pass through it, so the rows show stage, not equal volume. The prices also buy different things: Portkey’s $49 buys a gateway, whereas Enigma Vault NoPII’s $49 buys reversible PII protection.

    The Practical Takeaway: If your team needs to prove PII protection on real traffic this week, Enigma Vault NoPII’s free Lite tier includes the full protection, while Portkey’s free plan limits you to basic guardrails and is not meant for production. If you need a gateway anyway, price Portkey for the gateway, then judge whether one-way redaction is enough.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey Security and Compliance

    Enigma Vault NoPII runs on Enigma Vault’s platform, which is PCI DSS Level 1 and SOC 2 Type II, and a BAA is available on Enigma Vault NoPII Enterprise. Portkey lists SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA on its pricing and security pages, with custom BAAs on Enterprise.

    ControlEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    SOC 2Type II (Enigma Vault platform)Type 2, stated on its pricing page
    ISO 27001In progressStated on its pricing page
    PCI DSSLevel 1 Service Provider (Card, Data, File Vault in scope)Not listed
    HIPAA and BAABAA on EnterpriseHIPAA listed; custom BAAs on Enterprise
    GDPR erasureToken purge, with the proof kept in the logGDPR listed
    Plaintext in logsNever writtenDepends on your logging configuration
    Next stepAsk whether Portkey’s certifications carry over under Palo Alto Networks.

    Portkey holds ISO 27001 by its own account and Enigma Vault NoPII’s is still in progress, so if ISO 27001 is a hard requirement today, ask both for the certificate. Either way, request the audit documents under NDA before you send production data.

    Enigma Vault NoPII vs Portkey Reviews on G2 and Capterra

    SourceEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    G25/5 from 1 review4.6/5 from 18 reviews
    CapterraNo listingListed, no reviews
    Most praisedContext kept after tokenization, two-line setupOne gateway for many models, dashboard, observability
    Most criticizedThe interfaceLearning curve, documentation, and analytics gaps
    Next stepOne review is not a sample. Test detection on your own prompts.

    Praise and Complaints From Portkey Users

    Reviewers on G2 like having a single gateway to many models, a dashboard that makes monitoring straightforward, and structure in what one calls a chaotic part of building AI products. One mentions guardrails as a reason they chose it.

    On the critical side, reviewers describe a learning curve for teams new to LLMOps, documentation gaps, missing advanced analytics, no easy data export from the dashboard, and pricing that one finds high for smaller teams.

    Feedback on Enigma Vault NoPII

    Enigma Vault NoPII

    The one G2 reviewer values that tokenization solves the context loss of AI redaction and that setup took two lines of code, and finds the interface clunky. One review is not a sample, so the better evidence is the free tier on your own traffic.

    Enigma Vault NoPII or Portkey by Company Size and Team Setup

    The better fit depends less on industry than on how many models and teams you run, and whether the answer has to come back with real values in it.

    Company stageEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    Seed-stage startup with one AI featureBest fit: free Lite tier, two lines of code, full PII protection from day oneFree Developer plan has basic guardrails only and is not meant for production
    Series A to C SaaS facing customer security reviewsBest fit: $49 to $249 a month, a plaintext-free audit log to show reviewers, and real values back in replies$49 Production plan if you also need routing and caching; redaction stays one-way
    Mid-market company with several AI productsWorkspaces per product, roles, and Langfuse tracing on GrowthBest fit if most of the pain is model sprawl, budgets, and fallbacks
    Enterprise platform team serving many business unitsBusiness or Enterprise for SSO, reveal grants, and self-hostingBest fit for a central gateway, now backed by Palo Alto Networks
    Next stepCompany size is a starting point; your data path decides the rest.

    Single-Product Teams

    If one engineering team owns one AI feature, a gateway adds moving parts you may not need. Enigma Vault NoPII protects that feature’s traffic with no new SDK, and you can read what was caught in the first week of logs.

    Best fit: Enigma Vault NoPII.

    Platform Teams Running Many Models

    Portkey gives a platform team one API across many providers, with fallbacks, caching, budgets, and a dashboard that its G2 reviewers rate highly. Enigma Vault NoPII fronts 9 providers and offers none of the gateway features, so on model management alone Portkey is ahead.

    The test is whether any of those apps must return real customer values. If they must, Portkey’s one-way redaction cannot restore them, and that single requirement decides it.

    Best fit: Portkey, unless your apps must return real customer values, in which case Enigma Vault NoPII.

    Regulated Industries With an Auditor

    Healthcare, legal, insurance, and financial teams are asked to prove what reached the provider. Enigma Vault NoPII’s log stores the token and a masked value, never plaintext, and a BAA is available on Enterprise. Portkey lists HIPAA with custom BAAs on Enterprise, so the deciding factor is whether you need values restored. Our guide to PII protection for LLMs in healthcare covers the healthcare case.

    Best fit: Enigma Vault NoPII.

    Questions to Ask Before You Choose Enigma Vault NoPII or Portkey

    Bring these to both vendors. The answers shown are what each publishes today, so you can see where a sales call is needed.

    QuestionEnigma VaultNoPIIPortkey
    Will my app get real values back?Yes, restored in every responseAsk; its docs say redaction is irreversible
    Which PII types are covered on my plan?The same detection on every plan, including freeAsk which guardrails your plan includes
    What happens to streamed output?Tokens replaced as chunks arriveOutput guardrails are informational on streams
    What happens if detection fails?The request is blockedSet per guardrail; ask for the default
    Who will support us next year?Enigma VaultAsk how support and pricing change under Palo Alto Networks
    How do we leave?Ask for the export process in writingAsk for the export process in writing
    Next stepPut the same questions to both vendors.

    Moving From Portkey Guardrails to Enigma Vault NoPII

    If one-way redaction is breaking replies that need real values, the move is a change in where your requests go, so plan it before you turn anything off.

    • List Where Redaction Runs: Find every Portkey config with a PII guardrail, and every place your code tries to fill placeholders back in.
    • Check What You Rely On: If you use Portkey for routing, caching, or budgets, decide whether you still need a gateway for those jobs.
    • Route One Provider First: Point one model client at the Enigma Vault NoPII base URL and compare what reaches the provider in the audit log.
    • Run Both for a Few Weeks: Then cut over.

    If you want help mapping your AI data path, book a migration call, or read our guide to LLM privacy proxies.

    Final Verdict: Enigma Vault NoPII or Portkey?

    Portkey is a capable AI gateway, and if you need routing, caching, budgets, and observability across many models, it belongs on your shortlist. I would tell you that directly. Its PII redaction is one guardrail among many, and its own docs say it cannot be reversed.

    If what you need is to keep customer PII from the model provider without breaking the answer your users see, Enigma Vault NoPII does that with a base-URL change, a price you can read, and a free tier that does not expire. It is not a gateway, and it does not scan images, audio, or files, so if your project depends on those, look elsewhere.

    See it on your own data: try the Enigma Vault NoPII live demo or compare plans and start free.

    See what reaches your model provider.

    Book a demo to map your AI data path, or explore Enigma Vault NoPII first. The free tier covers one million protected tokens a month.

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    More comparisons: OpenAI privacy vs Enigma Vault NoPII, Protecto vs Skyflow, PII masking for LLMs, and the best AI data security software for enterprises.

    How We Researched This Comparison

    We checked every fact on 10 November 2026. Portkey facts come from portkey.ai, its pricing page, its guardrails and PII redaction docs, its GitHub repository, and Palo Alto Networks’ acquisition and launch announcements. Review data comes from G2 and Capterra, read live, and Enigma Vault NoPII facts come from our own product and pricing pages.

    Enigma Vault publishes this page, so read it as a vendor-written comparison. Where Portkey is the stronger product, we say so. If something here is out of date, tell us through our contact page and we will check it.

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    Abhilash Kumar Chief Growth Officer

    Abhilash Kumar is Chief Growth Officer at Enigma Vault, where he leads growth strategy, market positioning, and partnership development. He brings experience across B2B SaaS marketing, product marketing, brand building, and demand generation, with a career spanning technology companies and communications agencies.

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    Frequently asked questions

    What Is the Main Difference Between Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey?
    Enigma Vault NoPII is a privacy proxy built for one job: it tokenizes PII in your LLM API calls before it reaches the model provider and restores the real values in the response. Portkey is an AI gateway for routing, fallbacks, caching, observability, and governance, and PII redaction is one of its guardrails. Portkey’s own docs say that redaction is irreversible by design.
    Does Portkey Restore Redacted PII in the Model’s Response?
    No. Portkey’s PII redaction docs say redaction is irreversible by design and the transformation is one-way. Values are replaced with placeholders such as {{EMAIL_ADDRESS_1}}, and we found no documented step that puts the original values back. Enigma Vault NoPII replaces values with consistent tokens and restores them in the response, including streamed output.
    Is Enigma Vault NoPII or Portkey Cheaper?
    It depends on what you buy them for. Portkey’s Production plan is $49 a month for 100,000 recorded logs, but its free Developer plan is labelled not suitable for production and gets only basic guardrails. Enigma Vault NoPII is free for one million protected tokens a month, then $49, $249, or $499 a month. The units differ, so compare at your own traffic.
    Who Owns Portkey Now?
    Palo Alto Networks. It completed its acquisition of Portkey on 29 May 2026 and made the product generally available as Prisma AIRS AI Gateway on 16 July 2026. Portkey’s pages now carry a banner saying Portkey is now Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, and its G2 listing shows Palo Alto Networks as the vendor.
    Can Either Run Inside My Own Infrastructure?
    Yes, with different terms. Portkey’s gateway is open source under the MIT license and can be self-hosted free, and Enterprise adds private cloud and VPC hosting, though its GitHub README lists PII redaction as an enterprise feature. Enigma Vault NoPII’s self-hosted edition is available on Enterprise under an annual license with no token meter.
    Does Either Protect Streaming Responses?
    Enigma Vault NoPII replaces tokens on the fly as streamed chunks arrive, and buffers tool-call arguments until the call completes so a token split across chunks never breaks the JSON. Portkey’s docs say output guardrails on streaming run on the full response after the stream completes and are informational only.
    Which Is Better for AI Agents?
    Portkey offers an MCP gateway for authentication, access, and observability of MCP servers. Enigma Vault NoPII runs detection on message content, system prompts, tool-call arguments, and tool results, so an agent that calls functions is covered on the same pass, but it is not an MCP gateway.
    What Are the Reviews for Enigma Vault NoPII and Portkey?
    On G2, Portkey is rated 4.6/5 from 18 reviews and Enigma Vault NoPII is rated 5/5 from 1 review. Portkey reviewers praise its gateway, dashboard, and observability and mention a learning curve and documentation gaps. Neither has reviews on Capterra.