Google Vertex AI

Portkey provides a robust and secure gateway to facilitate the integration of various Large Language Models (LLMs) into your applications, including Google Vertex AI.

With Portkey, you can take advantage of features like fast AI gateway access, observability, prompt management, and more, all while ensuring the secure management of your LLM API keys through a virtual key system.

Portkey SDK Integration with Google Vertex AI

Portkey provides a consistent API to interact with models from various providers. To integrate Google Vertex AI with Portkey:

1. Install the Portkey SDK

Add the Portkey SDK to your application to interact with Google Vertex AI API through Portkey's gateway.

NodeJS

npm install --save portkey-ai

Python

pip install portkey-ai

2. Initialize Portkey with the Virtual Key

Set up Portkey with your virtual key as part of the initialization configuration. You can create a virtual key for Vertex AI in the UI.

NodeJS SDK

import Portkey from 'portkey-ai'
 
const portkey = new Portkey({
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY", // defaults to process.env["PORTKEY_API_KEY"]
    virtualKey: "VERTEX_VIRTUAL_KEY", // Your Vertex AI Virtual Key
})

Python SDK

from portkey_ai import Portkey

portkey = Portkey(
    api_key="PORTKEY_API_KEY",  # Replace with your Portkey API key
    virtual_key="VERTEX_VIRTUAL_KEY"   # Replace with your virtual key for Google
)

If you do not want to add your Vertex AI details to Portkey vault, you can directly pass them while instantiating the Portkey client. More on that here.

3. Invoke Chat Completions with Vertex AI and Gemini

Use the Portkey instance to send requests to Gemini models hosted on Vertex AI. You can also override the virtual key directly in the API call if needed.

Vertex AI uses OAuth2 to authenticate its requests, so you need to send the access token additionally along with the request.

NodeJS SDK

const chatCompletion = await portkey.chat.completions.create({
    messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Say this is a test' }],
    model: 'gemini-pro',
}, {authorization: "vertex ai access token here"});

console.log(chatCompletion.choices);

Python SDK

completion = portkey.with_options(authorization="...").chat.completions.create(
    messages= [{ "role": 'user', "content": 'Say this is a test' }],
    model= 'gemini-pro'
)

print(completion)

Function Calling

Portkey supports function calling mode on Google's Gemini Models. Explore this ⬇️ Cookbook for a deep dive and examples:

pageFunction Calling

Managing Vertex AI Prompts

You can manage all prompts to Google Gemini in the Prompt Library. All the models in the model garden are supported and you can easily start testing different prompts.

Once you're ready with your prompt, you can use the portkey.prompts.completions.create interface to use the prompt in your application.

Making Requests Without Virtual Keys

You can also pass your Vertex AI details & secrets directly without using the Virtual Keys in Portkey.

Vertex AI expects a region, a project ID and the access token in the request for a successful completion request. This is how you can specify these fields directly in your requests:

NodeJS SDK

import Portkey from 'portkey-ai'
 
const portkey = new Portkey({
    apiKey: "PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    vertexProjectId: "sample-55646",
    vertexRegion: "us-central1",
    provider:"vertex_ai",
    authorization: "VERTEX_AI_ACCESS_TOKEN"
})

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

console.log(chatCompletion.choices);

Python SDK

from portkey_ai import Portkey

portkey = Portkey(
    api_key="PORTKEY_API_KEY",
    vertex_project_id="sample-55646",
    vertex_region="us-central1",
    provider="vertex_ai",
    authorization="VERTEX_AI_ACCESS_TOKEN"
)

completion = portkey.chat.completions.create(
    messages= [{ "role": 'user', "content": 'Say this is a test' }],
    model= 'gemini-pro'
)

print(completion)

REST

curl 'https://api.portkey.ai/v1/chat/completions' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'x-portkey-api-key: PORTKEY_API_KEY' \
-H 'x-portkey-provider: vertex-ai' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer VERTEX_AI_ACCESS_TOKEN' \
-H 'x-portkey-vertex-project-id: sample-94994' \
-H 'x-portkey-vertex-region: us-central1' \
--data '{
    "messages": [{"role": "user","content": "Hello"}],
    "max_tokens": 20,
    "model": "gemini-pro"
}'

For further questions on custom Vertex AI deployments or fine-grained access tokens, reach out to us on [email protected]

Next Steps

The complete list of features supported in the SDK are available on the link below.

pagePortkey SDK Client

You'll find more information in the relevant sections:

1. Add metadata to your requests

2. Add gateway configs to your Vertex AI requests

3. Tracing Vertex AI requests

4. Setup a fallback from OpenAI to Vertex AI APIs