Independent gateway
LiteLLM
Pricing, fees and features
litellm.aiOpen source, MITChecked Sep 23, 2026
- Fee on tokens
- None
- Open source, self-hosted with your own keys; enterprise license by quote
- BYOK fee
- 0%
- with your own keys
- Entry plan
- Usage based
- Enterprise
- Hosting
- Both
- open source
Features
- Fallbacks
- Load balancing
- Caching
- Guardrails
- Observability
- Rate limits
- Budgets
- Prompts
- OpenAI-compatible
- Bring your own key
- Data residency
- Private networking
What it costs on real workloads
Claude Sonnet 5$400.00vs $400.00 direct
GPT-6 Sol$400.00vs $400.00 direct
Gemini 3.8 Flash$150.00vs $150.00 direct
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$27.00vs $27.00 direct
100M input and 20M output tokens a month, paying with gateway credits.
The terms, in their words
Open source Python SDK and proxy server that calls 100+ LLM providers in the OpenAI format, with an enterprise tier for SSO, audit logs and support.
- Markup
- Self-hosted proxy calls providers with your own keys; no token markup stated. Hosted proxy offered via enterprise.
- Free tier
- Open source gateway free to self-host
- Providers
- 100+ LLM providers
- Deploy the open-source gateway in an afternoon
- Virtual keys with per-key/team/user budgets
- Drop-in replacement for any OpenAI-compatible client
Source: www.litellm.ai/enterprise
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