Discussion - Topic: LiteLLM

This week's topic: LiteLLM

As described in Thoughtworks Technology Radar Vol. #31.

LiteLLM is a library for seamless integration with various large language model (LLM) providers’ APIs that standardizes interactions through an OpenAI API format. It supports an extensive array of providers and models and offers a unified interface for completion, embedding and image generation. LiteLLM simplifies integration by translating inputs to match each provider’s specific endpoint requirements. It also provides a framework needed to implement many of the operational features needed in a production application such as caching, logging, rate limiting and load balancing. This ensures uniform operation across different LLMs. Our teams are using LiteLLM to make it easier to swap various models in and out — a necessary feature in today’s landscape where models are evolving quickly. It’s crucial to acknowledge when doing this that model responses to identical prompts vary, indicating that a consistent invocation method alone may not fully optimize completion performance. Also, each model implements add-on features uniquely and a single interface may not suffice for all. For example, one of our teams had difficulty taking advantage of function calling in an AWS Bedrock model while proxying through LiteLLM.

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Discussion Resources :

LiteLLM: A Wrapper Around LLM APIs | BerriAI Blog (Medium)
https://medium.com/neural-engineer/litellm-a-unified-interface-for-llm-apis-d82390865b31

LiteLLM - Getting Started
https://docs.litellm.ai/

Top 5 LiteLLM alternatives of 2025 by Abhishek Choudhary
https://www.truefoundry.com/blog/litellm-alternatives

Portkey vs LiteLLM : Which is Best? by truefoundry
https://www.truefoundry.com/blog/portkey-vs-litellm

Lost in LLM Land? Let LiteLLM Be Your Guide to Navigate the Unknown by Jay Mehta
https://www.seaflux.tech/blogs/explore-litellm-effortless-ai-projects/

LiteLLM - Simplify AI API Management With One Library by Better Stack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jdpRv-WE2A

I’m changing how I use AI (Open WebUI + LiteLLM) by NetworkChuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQCOTzS5oU0