How does LiteLLM compare with the alternatives?
A developer left LiteLLM for OpenRouter over outages, and an RTFM engineer kept LiteLLM in front of OpenRouter after its 429 errors. On 1 million Sonnet 5.5 requests a month, GILD prices LiteLLM at US$4,024 and OpenRouter's Standard credits at US$4,220, before staff time.
TU Vienna rejected both over enterprise-gated SSO and built its own gateway; a Portkey cache bug took a production platform down for all its customers. Pick LiteLLM for free key budgets in a gateway you run, and Portkey, now Palo Alto Networks' Prisma AIRS AI Gateway, for hosted observability priced by recorded logs.
