In October 2025 I tried to build my startup on top of LiteLLM. At first it looked like the obvious...
In October 2025 I tried to build my startup on top of LiteLLM.
At first it looked like the obvious choice. It supported many providers, it had
an OpenAI-compatible API, and it was already used by a lot of people. I did not
want to write an AI gateway. I wanted to build the product behind it.
Then I started running it on the hot path.
An honest side-by-side comparison of LiteLLM and Bifrost AI gateways. Real benchmarks, real production traffic, no marketing spin.
When developers compare OpenRouter, LiteLLM, Portkey, direct provider APIs, and a managed...
A lot of teams start their LLM stack with one model string in application code. That is fine for...
Calling LLM providers directly works until it doesn't. The moment you're managing multiple API keys,...
TL;DR: We measured failover latency across three AI gateways (Bifrost, LiteLLM, Portkey) during 30...
Stop wiring every app into separate AI providers. Build a single self-hosted gateway with LiteLLM, Open WebUI, Docker, and…
