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LiteLLM

Orchestration Intermediate Open source Open core

A gateway and SDK that gives you one OpenAI-compatible API across hundreds of model providers, local backends included. As a proxy it adds routing, rate limiting, cost tracking, and key management in front of your models.

Strengths

  • One consistent API across local and remote models, easy to swap between them
  • Proxy adds routing, budgets, cost tracking, and key management
  • Works cleanly with local backends like Ollama and vLLM

Weaknesses

  • Another service to run and maintain in front of your models
  • Some advanced and enterprise features are gated
  • Adds a layer that can complicate debugging

At a glance

Licence
MIT
Pricing
Open core
Platforms
Docker, Linux, macOS, Windows
GPU required
No

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Entry last verified 30 July 2026.