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by rpodraza 81 days ago
At this point I'd highly recommend everyone to think twice before introducing any dependencies especially from untrusted sources. If you have to interact with many APIs maybe use a proxy instead, or roll your own.
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LiteLLM isn't a good choice for a proxy in any case. It introduces a lot of lag amd latency and the features are often half baked. To me, it looks like a vibecoded application without a product owner. And the code itself isn't very organized either. I evaluated it for a project a few months ago and will never use it for anything production. Theres a few much better alternatives out there.
Could you name some of these better alternatives?
If your requirements are just to load balance between selhosted AI servers: nginx. If you want a more thorough system with configurability, logging, etc.: Bifrost from MaximAI