LiteLLM, founded in 2023, is an open-source AI Gateway that provides developers with a unified interface to access over 100 large language models from multiple providers - including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Azure, and AWS Bedrock - using a standard OpenAI-compatible API format. The platform is designed for platform engineering teams centralising AI access within their organisations, offering capabilities such as cost tracking, rate limiting, load balancing, and observability.
The company's core product, the LiteLLM AI Gateway, processes billions of requests monthly and has gained significant traction in the open-source community, accumulating over 53,000 GitHub stars. It is used by major enterprises to manage and scale their LLM infrastructure across multiple providers through a single integration point.
LiteLLM is backed by Y Combinator (W23 batch) and operates in the enterprise AI infrastructure space. The team's technical focus spans LLM integration, API management, and the tooling required to run large language models reliably at production scale.
