LiteLLM alternatives in 2026: 24 tools like LiteLLM

Closest: AI Gateway & Proxy

Cloudflare AI Gateway

Caching, rate limiting, retries, and fallback across AI providers

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AI21 Gateway

Drop-in endpoint that cuts token cost for coding and other agents

Curated

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LLM Gateway

Open-source LLM gateway: one API key for 250+ models, cost tracking, failover

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Martian

Intelligent LLM router for cost and performance optimization

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OpenRouter

Unified interface for frontier AI models

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PortKey

AI gateway with observability and fallback routing

CuratedWeb

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Vercel AI Gateway

Gateway for routing requests to models from many providers

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Anthropic API

APIs for Claude language models

Curated

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fal

Generative media platform: 1,500+ image, video and audio models behind one API

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Google Gemini API

Direct API access to Gemini models via AI Studio

CuratedWeb

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Mistral API

API access to Mistral models via La Plateforme

Curated

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OpenAI API

API platform for OpenAI models

Curated

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Wiro

One API for 1,000+ image, video, audio and language models

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AWS Bedrock

AWS managed service for foundation models from Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral

CuratedWeb

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Cerebras Inference

LLM inference API and cloud running on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware

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DeepInfra

Hosted inference API for open models

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GroqCloud

Ultra-low-latency LPU inference API for open models

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inference.net

Hosting, fine-tuning and monitoring for open and custom language models

CuratedWeb

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Prodia

Inference API for image and video generation, tuned across GPUs and AI chips

CuratedWeb

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Replicate

Run open-source ML models via API

Curated

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Together AI

Cloud platform for running open-source models

CuratedWeb

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Zyphra Cloud

AMD-based inference cloud for open models and long-horizon agents

CuratedWeb

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9Router

Local proxy that routes coding agents to many model providers with fallback

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AIML API

One API for hundreds of AI models across text, image, video and voice

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Questions

What are the closest alternatives to LiteLLM?

Cloudflare AI Gateway, AI21 Gateway and LLM Gateway sit on the same sub-line as LiteLLM (AI Gateway & Proxy) on AI Landscape, with 4 more.

How are these alternatives chosen?

They are the other products on the LLM Gateways & APIs stop of the map: curated products first, the ones on LiteLLM's sub-line before the rest, then by name until members have marked enough of them.