# LiteLLM: unified AI gateway and Python SDK for 100+ LLM providers, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T16:06:58.495Z
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The README presents LiteLLM as one OpenAI-style interface over many LLM providers, as an SDK or a gateway.

Source: https://github.com/berriai/litellm

What it supplies: The README presents LiteLLM as one OpenAI-style interface over many LLM providers, as an SDK or a gateway.

Useful for: - Switch providers without rewriting code.
- Run a shared gateway with keys, spend tracking and guardrails.

First action: - Install the SDK with uv add litellm.
- Or deploy the proxy server following the proxy docs.

Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no Python version; see the documentation.

- Each provider needs its own credentials and terms.
- Performance figures in the README were not verified.

The README text read does not state the main licence in prose, so check the repository licence file. Enterprise features fall under a separate commercial licence.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, why, SDK install and enterprise README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run. README performance claims were not verified.

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