litellm alternatives
Curated alternatives to litellm — and why you'd switch.
plano
AI-native Envoy-based proxy for agentic apps: agent orchestration via a 4B routing model, smart LLM routing, guardrail filter chains and zero-code OTEL traces. Rust, framework-agnostic.
Why switchBoth sit between your app and 100+ LLM providers as a self-hosted gateway; LiteLLM is the lighter Python proxy for provider unification and cost control, Plano adds agent orchestration, guardrail filter chains and signals on an Envoy data plane.
Full comparison →freellmapi
OpenAI-compatible proxy that stacks free tiers of 18 LLM providers (~1.7B tokens/mo) behind one /v1 — smart routing, failover, per-key quota tracking; Claude Code and Codex shims included.
Why switchBoth expose many providers behind one OpenAI-compatible /v1 endpoint; freellmapi stacks free tiers, LiteLLM targets production apps and teams.
Full comparison →9router
Self-hosted gateway pointing any AI coding CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Cline) at 40+ providers, with subscription→cheap→free auto-fallback and tool_result compression for 20-40% token savings.
Why switchBoth are self-hosted gateways routing to many providers with fallback; 9router aims at coding CLIs, LiteLLM at app/SDK developers.
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