Bring Your Own LLM

Portkey provides a robust and secure platform to observe, integrate, and manage your locally or privately hosted custom models.

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Integrating Custom Models with Portkey SDK

You can integrate any custom LLM with Portkey as long as it’s API is compliant with any of the 15+ providers Portkey already supports.

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1. Install the Portkey SDK

• NodeJS
• Python

npm install --save portkey-ai

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2. Initialize Portkey with your Custom URL

Instead of using a provider + authorization pair or a virtualKey referring to the provider, you can specify a **provider** + **custom_host** pair while instantiating the Portkey client.

custom_host here refers to the URL where your custom model is hosted, including the API version identifier.

• NodeJS SDK
• Python SDK

import Portkey from 'portkey-ai'

const portkey = new Portkey({
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    provider: "PROVIDER_NAME", // This can be mistral-ai, openai, or anything else
    customHost: "http://MODEL_URL/v1/", // Your custom URL with version identifier
    authorization: "AUTH_KEY", // If you need to pass auth
})

More on custom_host here.

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3. Invoke Chat Completions

Use the Portkey SDK to invoke chat completions from your model, just as you would with any other provider.

• NodeJS SDK
• Python SDK

const chatCompletion = await portkey.chat.completions.create({
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Say this is a test' }]
});

console.log(chatCompletion.choices);

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Forward Sensitive Headers Securely

When integrating custom LLMs with Portkey, you may have sensitive information in your request headers that you don’t want Portkey to track or log. Portkey provides a secure way to forward specific headers directly to your model’s API without any processing.

Just specify an array of header names using the **forward_headers** property when initializing the Portkey client. Portkey will then forward these headers directly to your custom host URL without logging or tracking them.

Here’s an example:

• NodeJS
• Python
• cURL

import Portkey from 'portkey-ai'

const portkey = new Portkey({
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    provider: "PROVIDER_NAME", // This can be mistral-ai, openai, or anything else
    customHost: "http://MODEL_URL/v1/", // Your custom URL with version identifier
    authorization: "AUTH_KEY", // If you need to pass auth
    forwardHeaders: [ "authorization" ]
})

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Forward Headers in the Config Object

You can also define forward_headers in your Config object and then pass the headers directly while making a request.

{
    "strategy": {
        "mode": "loadbalance"
    },
    "targets": [
        {
            "provider": "openai",
            "api_key": ""
        },
        {
            "strategy": {
                "mode": "fallback"
            },
            "targets": [
                {
                    "provider": "azure-openai",
                    "custom_host": "http://MODEL_URL/v1",
                    "forward_headers": ["my-auth-header-1", "my-auth-header-2"]
                },
                {
                    "provider": "openai",
                    "api_key": "sk-***"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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Next Steps

Explore the complete list of features supported in the SDK:

You’ll find more information in the relevant sections:

1. Add metadata to your requests
2. Add gateway configs to your requests
3. Tracing requests
4. Setup a fallback from OpenAI to your local LLM