Litelm Provides Minimalist LLM Routing and Translation
September 11, 2026
Litelm is a lightweight alternative to LiteLLM that implements model routing, message translation, streaming, and tool use in under 2,900 lines of code. It maintains only two dependencies, openai and httpx, to reduce bloat.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can integrate model routing into your stack with significantly lower dependency overhead and complexity.