Scaling production AI: Cerebras joins the Portkey ecosystem
Cerebras inference is now available on the Portkey AI Gateway,bringing ultra-fast performance with enterprise-grade governance and control.
Enterprises are going beyond experimenting with AI; they are scaling it into production. But as adoption grows, two challenges consistently surface: inference performance and enterprise control.
Teams want faster responses at lower costs, while platform leaders need governance, observability, and reliability across the organization.
Enterprise-grade AI performance, powered by Cerebras
When enterprises move AI into production, they run into a familiar set of jobs to be done:
Speed at scale: AI features need to respond in milliseconds, not seconds, even when serving thousands of concurrent requests.
Reliability: Platform teams can’t afford downtime or erratic throughput when these systems power customer-facing products.
Cost efficiency: AI budgets balloon quickly without infrastructure that’s both high-performance and cost-effective.
Cerebras Systems is the pioneer in wafer-scale compute. It addresses these directly with its wafer-scale compute. Enterprises get sub-50ms responses, over 1,100 tokens per second throughput, and 99.99% uptime, a strong combination of speed, stability, and efficiency.
What this partnership enables
With Cerebras integrated into the Portkey's AI Gateway, enterprises get ultra-fast inference performance with built-in governance and control.
Speed: Cerebras delivers sub-50ms responses and throughput of 1,100+ tokens/sec, now accessible through Portkey’s unified gateway
Reliability: Combined with Portkey’s high-availability architecture, enterprises can depend on 99.99% uptime across their AI stack.
Cost efficiency: Cerebras’ unique hardware design reduces inference costs, while Portkey provides clear cost tracking and budgets to keep usage in check.
Enterprise controls: From observability and guardrails to role-based access and secure credential sharing, Portkey ensures Cerebras can be safely adopted across teams.
Why it matters for enterprises
Most enterprises have teams already experimenting with generative AI. The harder challenge is making these systems work reliably, securely, and cost-effectively at scale.
Cerebras and Portkey together close this gap:
Faster path to production — Enterprises no longer need to stitch together inference providers and governance tooling on their own. Cerebras’ performance is delivered through Portkey’s ready-to-use enterprise gateway.
Unified visibility — Platform leaders can see how different teams and products are using Cerebras, with a central view of spend, latency, and usage patterns.
Governed adoption — Guardrails, budgets, and role-based access ensure that scaling with Cerebras is done responsibly and securely.
By combining breakthrough compute with enterprise-grade controls, this partnership helps organizations confidently deploy generative AI in production — across multiple teams, use cases, and business lines.
Looking ahead
Cerebras becomes part of the growing Portkey provider ecosystem, now spanning 1,600+ models and providers across cloud and on-prem environments. For enterprises, this means the ability to route workloads not just across OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models, but also through Cerebras’ breakthrough wafer-scale inference.
As enterprises continue scaling their AI adoption, the combination of performance (Cerebras) and governance (Portkey) will be critical. Starting today, organizations can access Cerebras directly through the Portkey AI Gateway, with built-in controls for cost, security, and reliability.
