alt Hacker NewsAs someone who does not use litellm but instead a barely maintained underpowered alternative: what did everyone migrate to?
If it matters, I am mostly interested in the aspect of having a proxy that unifies multiple ollama and openai-compatible endpoints with model-based routing and failover. Optionally with api-keys, reporting, budgets, etc. I do not particularly care about the MCP gateway, Agent-To-Agent thingy, and whatever else LiteLLM bolted on over time
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Claude will write you something custom that fits your exact requirements with zero supply chain risk in an afternoon.
After the last LiteLLM compromise, I took my requirement (an OpenAI compatible endpoint routing across multiple providers based on latency) and built that as a small static Rust binary - https://github.com/sturnus-dev/sturnus
Now that AI makes it cheaper to build such tools in-house, the case for adopting a maximalist framework and trusting that entire supply chain is a lot weaker.
Pydantic AI has a great set of abstractions over LLM providers. The documentation tends to focus on its agent loop more, but I find the LLM abstractions quite nice even on their own
As with many dependencies, I wholeheartedly question the requirement and relentlessly cut them out without replacement.
Taking the definition from another user on this comment-chain:
"an OpenAI compatible endpoint routing across multiple providers based on latency"
If the endpoint is truly OpenAI compatible, you can just switch out the vendor by switching out the HTTP address, we are talking potentially about a single line change.
- LLM_HOST = "api.openai.com" + LLM_HOST = "api.competitor.com"
It sounds silly, but remember that software is a winner-takes all game, 99% of devs will lose, so if you are seeing 99% of devs do the same thing, it isn't surprising that it's a grossly wrong choice. It takes skill and guts to be in the 1%, reject the mainstream trends, and just write code without grasping at external imports to do even the most basic things.
I'd like to take this opportunity to sell out, I'm open for contracts if you are looking for a remote 1% dev. Early stage startups only, email in userpage.
I just installed it on my server in docker, then the UI was unusable and I deleted it and vibe coded a minimal alternative in golang. It works better.