kennethwolters/litelm
litellm without the bloat
About the project
A lightweight litellm alternative: routes LLM calls across 19 providers and translates message formats in ~2,900 lines with two dependencies, without proxy, caching, or cost tracking.
Useful for
- Swap litellm for litelm by changing imports to cut dependencies
- Call one model across providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq) through a single API
- Connect a local vLLM or Ollama server via api_base without a separate SDK
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 9 stars today.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat” — 176 points, 2 days ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @mbrukman (386 followers), @millette (306 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 203
- Stars in a day
- 9
- Forks
- 4
- Issues and pull requests
- 16
- Watchers
- 0
- Language
- Python
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v0.5.2 · September 11, 2026
- Created
- March 13, 2026
- Last push
- September 11, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat176 points, September 11, 2026
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- September 13, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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