# kennethwolters/litelm

> 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.

- Magnitude: 0.3 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 232 total · +0 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-03-13 · Last push: 2026-09-28
- GitHub: https://github.com/kennethwolters/litelm · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/kennethwolters/litelm

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Hacker News: “Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat” — 176 points, 16 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 4
- Issues and pull requests: 19
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 0 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Latest release: v0.5.3 (2026-09-19)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-15 3.0, 09-16 1.8, 09-17 1.4, 09-18 1.5, 09-19 1.6, 09-20 1.1, 09-21 1.3, 09-22 1.1, 09-23 0.7, 09-24 0.7, 09-25 0.7, 09-26 0.6, 09-27 0.4, 09-28 0.5

## Hacker News

- Litelm: LiteLLM Without the Bloat — 176 points, 63 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49662767

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Data as of 2026-09-28 17:49 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.