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A developer portal is good at what it does: a service catalog that aggregates and surfaces your services, ownership, docs, and scorecards in one place. For visibility and standardization, that is a real answer. IntegraCI starts from a different place. It includes a portal surface itself, then governs around it: golden paths, security gates, a governed AI gateway, a tamper-evident audit trail, and tenant isolation sit at the centre, and delivery is one of the things they gate. You connect the CI, scanners, and clouds you already run, and the platform governs and acts on them. A portal is the window; IntegraCI is the governed platform behind it.
Side by side
Both help your platform team standardize and see what they run. The difference is emphasis: a developer portal leads with visibility and a service catalog, IntegraCI leads with governance, security gates, and governed AI, with a catalog included. The table below shows where each one focuses.
| Dimension | A developer portal | IntegraCI |
|---|---|---|
| Centre of gravity | Visibility and standardization. A service catalog that aggregates and surfaces your services, ownership, docs, and scorecards in one place. | Governance and delivery first. A platform that includes a portal surface, then governs around it: policy, audit, and tenant isolation sit at the centre, with the catalog as one view onto them. |
| Security gates | Scorecards and checks show where a service stands. Acting on that signal, and blocking a risky change, is left to the pipelines and tools you wire in around the catalog. | Security scans run in the pipeline and a build that breaks policy is blocked before it promotes. Gates are part of the platform, not a scorecard you read and act on by hand. |
| AI in the workflow | A catalog surfaces information. AI assistance, if used, comes from tools you bring and govern yourself, around the portal. | AI is native and governed: a single AI gateway, human-in-the-loop approvals, and policy gates on every agent action, so automation stays inside your rules. |
| Governance & compliance | Surfaces ownership, docs, and maturity so teams can self-serve and standardize. Broader compliance evidence is something you assemble around it. | Policy lives as code, the audit trail is tamper-evident and exportable, and compliance policy bundles ship for common frameworks (policy bundles, not certification). |
| Connectors | Ingests metadata from your repos, CI, and tools to build the catalog and keep it current. | You connect your own: a broad library of connectors to the CI, scanners, and clouds you already run. IntegraCI governs them and acts on them, rather than only cataloging them. |
| Multi-tenancy | Typically organized by teams, groups, and ownership within a shared catalog instance. | Database-enforced tenant isolation out of the box. Database-enforced row-level security keeps tenants apart on its own, so there is no app-layer filtering to trust. |
| Hosting & licensing | Adopted and run as a catalog layer, self-hosted or managed depending on the offering. | Self-hostable to air-gapped infrastructure, or managed. A guided evaluation to begin, self-hosted to air-gapped or managed. |
"A developer portal" here means the category of developer portals and service catalogs in general, not any one product. This comparison reflects a difference in emphasis (a catalog that shows versus a platform that governs and delivers), not a knock on a capable category. IntegraCI includes a portal surface of its own.
Beyond the catalog, in practice
A catalog shows you where a service stands. Governance decides whether a change should ship, records it, and acts on it. These are the controls IntegraCI keeps at the centre of every run, around the portal surface it includes.
Your scans run in the pipeline and a build that breaks policy stops before it promotes. The decision to ship is enforced, not a scorecard you read and act on by hand.
A single AI gateway, human-in-the-loop approvals, and policy gates on each agent action keep automation inside the rules you set.
A tamper-evident audit trail and exportable compliance evidence, so the day the auditor asks, you can prove what the platform did.
An honest fit check
Neither choice is universally "better." It comes down to whether your sharpest problem is visibility and standardization, or whether you need security gates, governed AI, and audit at the centre of how you ship, with a catalog included.
Request a demo and run policy gates, governed AI, and a tamper-evident audit trail over the tools you already use, with a portal surface included. Or talk to us about a self-hosted rollout.