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Self-hosting a BYOK LLM gateway: LiteLLM vs managed
You can run your own bring-your-own-key gateway with LiteLLM in minutes. Here's the setup, and when a managed BYOK gateway is the lower-effort path.
The LiteLLM route
LiteLLM is an open-source proxy that accepts an OpenAI-compatible request and routes it to the provider whose key you configured. You bring the keys; it handles normalization and fallbacks.
Our team used multiple LLM providers from different clouds: Google, Azure, and AWS. Every app and...
Stop wiring every app into separate AI providers. Build a single self-hosted gateway with LiteLLM, Open WebUI, Docker, and…
In October 2025 I tried to build my startup on top of LiteLLM. At first it looked like the obvious...
The earlier posts in this series were about what the gateway lets you call (cache-aware spawning...
exposure_gate.py lints .env, compose, and LiteLLM config offline before the first request. One field flips exit 0 to 1.
How ModelPlane keeps your provider keys encrypted per-tenant and never forwards gateway keys upstream. A practical guide to BYOK…
