🚅 LiteLLM

Call all LLM APIs using the OpenAI format [Bedrock, Huggingface, VertexAI, TogetherAI, Azure, OpenAI, Groq etc.]

LiteLLM Proxy Server (LLM Gateway) | Hosted Proxy (Preview) | Enterprise Tier

LiteLLM manages:

• Translate inputs to provider's completion, embedding, and image_generation endpoints
• Consistent output, text responses will always be available at ['choices'][0]['message']['content']
• Retry/fallback logic across multiple deployments (e.g. Azure/OpenAI) - Router
• Set Budgets & Rate limits per project, api key, model LiteLLM Proxy Server (LLM Gateway)

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Jump to Supported LLM Providers

🚨 Stable Release: Use docker images with the -stable tag. These have undergone 12 hour load tests, before being published. More information about the release cycle here

Support for more providers. Missing a provider or LLM Platform, raise a feature request.

Usage (Docs)

Important

LiteLLM v1.0.0 now requires openai>=1.0.0. Migration guide here
LiteLLM v1.40.14+ now requires pydantic>=2.0.0. No changes required.

pip install litellm

from litellm import completion
import os

## set ENV variables
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-openai-key"
os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = "your-anthropic-key"

messages = [{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]

# openai call
response = completion(model="openai/gpt-4o", messages=messages)

# anthropic call
response = completion(model="anthropic/claude-3-sonnet-20240229", messages=messages)
print(response)

Response (OpenAI Format)

{
    "id": "chatcmpl-565d891b-a42e-4c39-8d14-82a1f5208885",
    "created": 1734366691,
    "model": "claude-3-sonnet-20240229",
    "object": "chat.completion",
    "system_fingerprint": null,
    "choices": [
        {
            "finish_reason": "stop",
            "index": 0,
            "message": {
                "content": "Hello! As an AI language model, I don't have feelings, but I'm operating properly and ready to assist you with any questions or tasks you may have. How can I help you today?",
                "role": "assistant",
                "tool_calls": null,
                "function_call": null
            }
        }
    ],
    "usage": {
        "completion_tokens": 43,
        "prompt_tokens": 13,
        "total_tokens": 56,
        "completion_tokens_details": null,
        "prompt_tokens_details": {
            "audio_tokens": null,
            "cached_tokens": 0
        },
        "cache_creation_input_tokens": 0,
        "cache_read_input_tokens": 0
    }
}

Call any model supported by a provider, with model=<provider_name>/<model_name>. There might be provider-specific details here, so refer to provider docs for more information

Async (Docs)

from litellm import acompletion
import asyncio

async def test_get_response():
    user_message = "Hello, how are you?"
    messages = [{"content": user_message, "role": "user"}]
    response = await acompletion(model="openai/gpt-4o", messages=messages)
    return response

response = asyncio.run(test_get_response())
print(response)

Streaming (Docs)

liteLLM supports streaming the model response back, pass stream=True to get a streaming iterator in response.
Streaming is supported for all models (Bedrock, Huggingface, TogetherAI, Azure, OpenAI, etc.)

from litellm import completion
response = completion(model="openai/gpt-4o", messages=messages, stream=True)
for part in response:
    print(part.choices[0].delta.content or "")

# claude 2
response = completion('anthropic/claude-3-sonnet-20240229', messages, stream=True)
for part in response:
    print(part)

Response chunk (OpenAI Format)

{
    "id": "chatcmpl-2be06597-eb60-4c70-9ec5-8cd2ab1b4697",
    "created": 1734366925,
    "model": "claude-3-sonnet-20240229",
    "object": "chat.completion.chunk",
    "system_fingerprint": null,
    "choices": [
        {
            "finish_reason": null,
            "index": 0,
            "delta": {
                "content": "Hello",
                "role": "assistant",
                "function_call": null,
                "tool_calls": null,
                "audio": null
            },
            "logprobs": null
        }
    ]
}

Logging Observability (Docs)

LiteLLM exposes pre defined callbacks to send data to Lunary, MLflow, Langfuse, DynamoDB, s3 Buckets, Helicone, Promptlayer, Traceloop, Athina, Slack

from litellm import completion

## set env variables for logging tools (when using MLflow, no API key set up is required)
os.environ["LUNARY_PUBLIC_KEY"] = "your-lunary-public-key"
os.environ["HELICONE_API_KEY"] = "your-helicone-auth-key"
os.environ["LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY"] = ""
os.environ["LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY"] = ""
os.environ["ATHINA_API_KEY"] = "your-athina-api-key"

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-openai-key"

# set callbacks
litellm.success_callback = ["lunary", "mlflow", "langfuse", "athina", "helicone"] # log input/output to lunary, langfuse, supabase, athina, helicone etc

#openai call
response = completion(model="openai/gpt-4o", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi 👋 - i'm openai"}])

LiteLLM Proxy Server (LLM Gateway) - (Docs)

Track spend + Load Balance across multiple projects

Hosted Proxy (Preview)

The proxy provides:

1. Hooks for auth
2. Hooks for logging
3. Cost tracking
4. Rate Limiting

📖 Proxy Endpoints - Swagger Docs

Quick Start Proxy - CLI

pip install 'litellm[proxy]'

Step 1: Start litellm proxy

$ litellm --model huggingface/bigcode/starcoder

#INFO: Proxy running on http://0.0.0.0:4000

Step 2: Make ChatCompletions Request to Proxy

Important

💡 Use LiteLLM Proxy with Langchain (Python, JS), OpenAI SDK (Python, JS) Anthropic SDK, Mistral SDK, LlamaIndex, Instructor, Curl

import openai # openai v1.0.0+
client = openai.OpenAI(api_key="anything",base_url="http://0.0.0.0:4000") # set proxy to base_url
# request sent to model set on litellm proxy, `litellm --model`
response = client.chat.completions.create(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages = [
    {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "this is a test request, write a short poem"
    }
])

print(response)

Proxy Key Management (Docs)

Connect the proxy with a Postgres DB to create proxy keys

# Get the code
git clone https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

# Go to folder
cd litellm

# Add the master key - you can change this after setup
echo 'LITELLM_MASTER_KEY="sk-1234"' > .env

# Add the litellm salt key - you cannot change this after adding a model
# It is used to encrypt / decrypt your LLM API Key credentials
# We recommend - https://1password.com/password-generator/ 
# password generator to get a random hash for litellm salt key
echo 'LITELLM_SALT_KEY="sk-1234"' > .env

source .env

# Start
docker-compose up

UI on /ui on your proxy server

Set budgets and rate limits across multiple projects POST /key/generate

Request

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"models": ["gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4", "claude-2"], "duration": "20m","metadata": {"user": "[email protected]", "team": "core-infra"}}'

Expected Response

{
    "key": "sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA", # Bearer token
    "expires": "2023-11-19T01:38:25.838000+00:00" # datetime object
}

Supported Providers (Docs)

Provider	Completion	Streaming	Async Completion	Async Streaming	Async Embedding	Async Image Generation
openai	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
azure	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
AI/ML API	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
aws - sagemaker	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
aws - bedrock	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
google - vertex_ai	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
google - palm	✅	✅	✅	✅
google AI Studio - gemini	✅	✅	✅	✅
mistral ai api	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
cloudflare AI Workers	✅	✅	✅	✅
cohere	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
anthropic	✅	✅	✅	✅
empower	✅	✅	✅	✅
huggingface	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
replicate	✅	✅	✅	✅
together_ai	✅	✅	✅	✅
openrouter	✅	✅	✅	✅
ai21	✅	✅	✅	✅
baseten	✅	✅	✅	✅
vllm	✅	✅	✅	✅
nlp_cloud	✅	✅	✅	✅
aleph alpha	✅	✅	✅	✅
petals	✅	✅	✅	✅
ollama	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
deepinfra	✅	✅	✅	✅
perplexity-ai	✅	✅	✅	✅
Groq AI	✅	✅	✅	✅
Deepseek	✅	✅	✅	✅
anyscale	✅	✅	✅	✅
IBM - watsonx.ai	✅	✅	✅	✅	✅
voyage ai					✅
xinference [Xorbits Inference]					✅
FriendliAI	✅	✅	✅	✅
Galadriel	✅	✅	✅	✅

Read the Docs

Contributing

Interested in contributing? Contributions to LiteLLM Python SDK, Proxy Server, and contributing LLM integrations are both accepted and highly encouraged! See our Contribution Guide for more details

Enterprise

For companies that need better security, user management and professional support

Talk to founders

This covers:

• ✅ Features under the LiteLLM Commercial License:
• ✅ Feature Prioritization
• ✅ Custom Integrations
• ✅ Professional Support - Dedicated discord + slack
• ✅ Custom SLAs
• ✅ Secure access with Single Sign-On

Code Quality / Linting

LiteLLM follows the Google Python Style Guide.

We run:

• Ruff for formatting and linting checks
• Mypy + Pyright for typing 1, 2
• Black for formatting
• isort for import sorting

If you have suggestions on how to improve the code quality feel free to open an issue or a PR.

Support / talk with founders

• Schedule Demo 👋
• Community Discord 💭
• Our numbers 📞 +1 (770) 8783-106 / ‭+1 (412) 618-6238‬
• Our emails ✉️ [email protected] / [email protected]

Why did we build this

• Need for simplicity: Our code started to get extremely complicated managing & translating calls between Azure, OpenAI and Cohere.

Contributors

Run in Developer mode

Services

1. Setup .env file in root
2. Run dependant services docker-compose up db prometheus

Backend

1. (In root) create virtual environment python -m venv .venv
2. Activate virtual environment source .venv/bin/activate
3. Install dependencies pip install -e ".[all]"
4. Start proxy backend uvicorn litellm.proxy.proxy_server:app --host localhost --port 4000 --reload

Frontend

1. Navigate to ui/litellm-dashboard
2. Install dependencies npm install
3. Run npm run dev to start the dashboard