About LiteLLM
What is LiteLLM?
LiteLLM is a developer-focused platform that provides seamless access to over 100 large language models, offering features like usage tracking, budgets, rate limits, and fallbacks. It standardizes logging, API calls, and authentication across models, enabling teams to quickly adopt new LLMs without operational overhead. LiteLLM supports both open-source self-hosted deployments and enterprise solutions with additional features like JWT authentication, SSO, audit logs, and custom SLAs. Widely adopted by companies like Netflix and Lemonade, LiteLLM enhances developer productivity by providing Day 0 access to new models and simplifying cost allocation, team management, and LLM observability.
How to use LiteLLM?
To get started with LiteLLM, visit their website and create an account. Once you're set up, explore features like Unified Model Access, Spend Tracking, Budgets & Rate Limits.
What Are the Key Features of LiteLLM?
Provides a single interface for accessing multiple LLMs including OpenAI, Azure, Bedrock, Anthropic, and more.
Tracks usage and costs per key, user, team, or organization, supporting automatic logging to cloud storage.
Allows teams to enforce spending budgets and rate limits for LLM usage to control costs and ensure fairness.
Automatically routes requests to alternate models if the primary model is unavailable or fails.
Supports prompt formatting for various models including Hugging Face and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
Provides enterprise features like JWT authentication, SSO, audit logs, and custom SLAs for secure deployments.
LiteLLM can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud, giving teams flexibility in managing LLM infrastructure.