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LiteLLMPortkey AI Gateway
Free

Free to download and self-host.

 Freemium

The gateway is free and open source under MIT; Portkey sells hosted and enterprise…

Self-hosted Self-hosted
  • One OpenAI-style API for over 100 providers
  • Cost tracking, load balancing and logging built in
  • One API for a large number of model providers
  • Automatic retries, fallbacks and load balancing
  • You run and maintain the gateway yourself
  • Aimed at developers and teams rather than end users
  • Aimed at developers building AI applications, not end users
  • Version 2.0 is still a pre-release
Self-hosted Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source Open source
License not stated License: MIT
No account needed Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline Not stated if it works offline

Checked September 26, 2026

Checked October 2, 2026

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