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feat(logging): add opt-in session_id and trace_id correlation to JSON log records via contextvars (#34418)
* feat(logging): add opt-in session_id/trace_id correlation to JSON log records via contextvars

Adds two ContextVar instances (session_id_var, trace_id_var) to litellm/_logging.py and
two setter functions (set_session_id, set_trace_id). Logging.__init__() now calls both
setters after assigning litellm_trace_id so every JSON log record emitted within the
async request context carries trace_id and, when provided, session_id — enabling log
correlation in Loki, CloudWatch Logs Insights, and other structured-log sinks without
any changes to individual log call sites.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(logging): guard session_id/trace_id injection against overwriting caller-supplied extra fields

* fix(logging): always reset session_id_var to empty string when no session_id provided

* feat: gate request correlation IDs in logs behind request_correlation_in_logs flag

* refactor: move correlation ID injection into CorrelationContextFilter

* feat(logging): extend request_correlation_in_logs to plaintext logs and StandardLoggingPayload

Plaintext log lines (json_logs off) now get the same trace_id/session_id
suffix as JSON logs via a new CorrelationPlainFormatter, so the flag has a
visible effect regardless of log format.

StandardLoggingPayload gets a new independent session_id field, populated
from litellm_session_id. trace_id's existing session_id-first fallback is
preserved when request_correlation_in_logs is off; with the flag on, an
explicit litellm_trace_id now takes priority over litellm_session_id so
the two fields carry genuinely independent values.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context after nested calls; sanitize correlation ids

Addresses two review findings on this PR.

CorrelationContextFilter's trace_id/session_id contextvars were set on every
Logging.__init__ but never reset, so a nested LiteLLM call sharing the same
asyncio Task as an outer request (e.g. a guardrail's own LLM-as-judge call,
an MCP sampling call) would leave the outer request's subsequent log lines
stamped with the nested call's ids instead of its own. set_trace_id/
set_session_id now return their contextvars.Token, and Logging stores them
and resets both once its own success/failure handler actually completes,
via a new idempotent _restore_correlation_context() called from all four
terminal handlers.

set_trace_id/set_session_id also now strip control characters and bound
length before storing a caller-controlled trace_id/session_id, since these
values can originate from request input (litellm_session_id, x-litellm-
trace-id) and get interpolated into plain-text log lines - without this, a
caller could embed \r/\n or escape sequences to forge fake log entries.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context after nested calls, not before

The previous commit called _restore_correlation_context() as the first
line of each terminal handler, before that handler's own callback
dispatch loop runs. That's backwards: a nested LiteLLM call triggered
from within a callback (e.g. a guardrail's own LLM-as-judge call) would
then capture the *already-reset* value as its own pre-call baseline,
and its own reset would restore to that instead of the true outer
value - verified live to still leak.

success_handler/async_success_handler/failure_handler/async_failure_handler
are now thin wrappers: the original bodies move to
_success_handler_body/etc, called inside a try/finally that restores
context only once the full body - including any nested calls its own
callback dispatch triggers - has actually finished, mirroring proper
stack-scoped nesting semantics.

* test(logging): cover async_failure_handler's correlation-context restore

Codecov flagged the new async_failure_handler wrapper (try/finally around
_async_failure_handler_body) as uncovered - the method had no direct test
at all before this PR's refactor split it into a wrapper. Adds a test that
awaits it directly and asserts both that async_log_failure_event still
fires and that _restore_correlation_context() puts the pre-call
trace_id/session_id back.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context by value, not by contextvars.Token

veria-ai correctly flagged that contextvars.Token.reset() only works in the
exact Context it was created in, and litellm's async success path (and
streaming failure path) dispatch async_success_handler/async_failure_handler
via asyncio.create_task and the global logging worker - a different Context
than Logging.__init__ ran in. reset_trace_id/reset_session_id silently
swallowed the resulting ValueError, so the restore was a no-op for exactly
those paths. Verified independently: reproduced the raw contextvars
behavior, then confirmed litellm's async success dispatch really does go
through asyncio.create_task + GLOBAL_LOGGING_WORKER (litellm/utils.py).

Logging now captures the pre-call *value* (not a Token) and restores via a
plain set_trace_id()/set_session_id() call, which works regardless of which
Task/Context calls it. reset_trace_id/reset_session_id are removed as
dead/unreliable code. Added a regression test that spawns __init__ and the
restore in different asyncio Tasks - confirmed it fails against the prior
Token-based commit and passes here.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context in the originating task too

Greptile's re-review correctly identified a remaining gap: for a
successful acompletion(), async_success_handler is dispatched via
asyncio.create_task + the global logging worker into a *different* Task
than the one wrapper_async/Logging.__init__ ran in. The prior fix (43c164a)
only restored the handler's own (detached, throwaway) Task - it never
touched the originating request Task, which keeps this call's trace_id/
session_id set for the rest of its own execution (e.g. nested calls made
via the same Task).

wrapper()/wrapper_async() in litellm/utils.py now restore the originating
Task's correlation context in a finally block once the whole call is done,
regardless of what detached logging tasks it spawned along the way. Since
the wrapped body rebinds its own `kwargs` local via function_setup(),
sharing the dict object doesn't work here; a small mutable holder carries
the constructed Logging instance back out to the outer wrapper instead.

_restore_correlation_context() is no longer guarded against repeat calls:
with value-based (not Token-based) restoration, each distinct Task that
calls it needs its own restore to take effect in that Task's own view of
the contextvars, so multiple calls (once per Task involved in an attempt)
are required, not just tolerated.

Added a regression test using mock_response to exercise the real success
dispatch path (asyncio.create_task + GLOBAL_LOGGING_WORKER) without a live
provider call, asserting the *test's own* (originating) task context is
restored after the call - this is exactly the case Greptile flagged and
the prior commit didn't cover.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context when function_setup itself fails

Greptile's 4th finding: if function_setup() constructs Logging() (whose
__init__ already mutates trace_id_var/session_id_var) and then raises
before returning - e.g. update_environment_variables() throws - the
caller's wrapper()/wrapper_async() never receives a logging_obj reference,
so its own restore-on-finally never fires. The correlation ids leak into
every subsequent log line on that thread/task with no way to clear them.

function_setup()'s own except block now restores the context itself in
that case, using whatever logging_obj it managed to construct before
failing (locals().get(), safe against the earlier failure modes where
logging_obj was never assigned at all).

Added a regression test that monkeypatches Logging.update_environment_variables
to raise after construction, confirmed it fails without this fix (the
leaked ids show up directly in the raised exception's own log line) and
passes with it. Broader sweep (test_utils.py, test_router.py,
test_main_module_header.py, streaming handler tests, plus all
logging-specific tests): 722 passed.

* fix(logging): don't assume every litellm_logging_obj is a real Logging instance

CI caught a real regression from the last commit: tests/test_litellm/llms/xai/test_xai_key_fallback.py
injects a minimal FakeLogging stand-in (only implementing
update_from_kwargs) as litellm_logging_obj for a narrow realtime-config
unit test, bypassing the real Logging class entirely. wrapper()/
wrapper_async()'s finally block and function_setup()'s except block both
unconditionally called _restore_correlation_context() on whatever ended up
in the holder, which doesn't exist on that stand-in.

_restore_correlation_context is new plumbing specific to this PR's
feature, not part of any pre-existing stand-in's expected interface, so
callers of it can't assume every object playing the litellm_logging_obj
role implements it. Added _restore_correlation_context_if_supported(),
a small getattr-guarded helper, and used it at all three call sites.

* fix(logging): don't restore context too early on setup failure or streaming

Two more findings from Greptile's 5th review round.

1. function_setup()'s except block restored correlation context *after*
   logging the "Error in function_setup" exception, so that diagnostic log
   line itself was stamped with the doomed call's ids instead of the outer
   ids - misleading, since the failed call never produces anything else to
   attribute those ids to. Restore now happens before the log call.

2. wrapper()/wrapper_async() restored the originating task's context as
   soon as a streaming call returned, before the caller ever starts
   iterating the CustomStreamWrapper it just got back. Any log lines
   emitted while iterating (in the same thread/task) incorrectly showed
   the pre-call ids instead of this call's own ones. The wrapper finally
   block now skips the restore when the return value is a stream wrapper,
   deferring to the terminal handler that already fires once the stream is
   actually assembled/exhausted.

Both verified with tests that fail against the prior commit and pass
against this one. Broader sweep unchanged at 829 passing.

* fix(logging): best-effort correlation cleanup on abandoned streams

Greptile's 7th finding: if a caller returns a streaming response and never
fully consumes it - stops iterating early, drops the reference, cancels
it - the terminal handler that normally restores the originating task's
trace_id/session_id never fires, since it only runs once the stream is
actually assembled/exhausted. The ids leak into every subsequent log line
in that thread/task with no bound.

There's no reliable Python hook for "this was abandoned without being
closed" - CustomStreamWrapper has no close()/__aexit__/context-manager
convention today, and the only automatic option is __del__, whose timing
is inherently unpredictable (delayed by cyclic GC, not guaranteed at
interpreter shutdown, can run on a different thread). This is a best-effort
safety net, not a guarantee, and is documented as such in the docstring.

Testing this via real garbage collection proved unreliable in practice:
per-chunk logging submits work to a thread pool executor whose worker
thread transiently holds its own bound-method reference to the wrapper
until that task completes, so refcount doesn't hit zero on a
deterministic schedule even with polling. Tests call __del__ directly
instead - a plain method, safe to invoke early - which exercises exactly
the restore logic real garbage collection would eventually trigger,
plus a case confirming a broken logging_obj can never make __del__ raise.

* fix(logging): restore consumer's context at every real stream exit point

Two more findings from this round.

Veria AI: even a *fully consumed* stream never restored the actual
consuming thread/task's correlation context. The terminal success dispatch
(dispatch_success_handlers via asyncio.create_task for async, or
success_handler via the shared executor for sync) only restores whatever
detached context it runs in - never the caller's own thread/task that's
running the for/async for loop. Same root cause as the wrapper-level fix
two rounds ago, just missed for the streaming-completion path.

Greptile: explicit aclose() (client disconnect, router fallback aborting
a partial stream) closed the underlying stream without restoring
correlation context either, since request wrappers intentionally skip
restoration for returned streams and no terminal handler runs on this
path.

Added CustomStreamWrapper._restore_consumer_correlation_context(), called
from every point control genuinely returns to the consumer: the final
raise StopIteration/StopAsyncIteration on natural exhaustion (both sync
branches, both async branches), _handle_stream_fallback_error (the shared
choke point for all three failure-raising call sites), and aclose(). __del__
now delegates to the same helper instead of duplicating it.

Verified with tests extending the existing streaming-exhaustion cases to
assert the consuming context is restored after the loop completes (fails
against the prior commit, passes now), plus a dedicated aclose() test.
Broader sweep: 832 passing.

* fix(logging): don't let a delayed __del__ finalizer clobber a newer active call

If an abandoned stream's __del__ fires late (after cyclic GC delay), a
different call may have already taken over the correlation contextvars in
the same Task/thread. Restoring unconditionally would stomp that active
call's trace_id/session_id with the abandoned stream's stale pre-call
snapshot. __del__ now only restores when the contextvars still hold the
ids this call itself set.

* fix(logging): compare sanitized ids in the __del__ ownership guard

set_trace_id()/set_session_id() sanitize (strip control chars, bound length)
before storing, so the contextvar's value can differ from the raw
litellm_trace_id/litellm_session_id. The __del__ ownership guard was
comparing against the raw values, so a caller-supplied id containing control
characters or exceeding 256 chars would never match, permanently skipping
cleanup. Capture what set_trace_id()/set_session_id() actually stored and
compare against that instead.

* fix(logging): restore consumer context on the synthesized finish_reason chunk

Both __next__ and _finalize_completed_stream() have a branch that fires when
the underlying stream ends without ever emitting an explicit finish_reason
chunk: they synthesize one via finish_reason_handler() and return it. A
consumer that stops as soon as it sees finish_reason - a common pattern -
never calls __next__()/__anext__() again, so the existing restore in the
sent_last_chunk-is-True StopIteration branch never runs for them. The
underlying stream is already exhausted at this point regardless of whether
the caller keeps iterating, so restoring here is safe.

* fix(logging): don't restore correlation context before the caller receives the final chunk

The previous fix (5147c69186) restored context immediately before returning
the synthesized finish_reason chunk from __next__/_finalize_completed_stream,
reasoning that completion_stream was already exhausted. But that chunk is
still this call's own data, and the caller's own application-level log
statements processing it run in the same synchronous frame right after the
return - restoring first made those lines carry the wrong (outer) ids,
exactly what wrapper()/wrapper_async() deliberately avoid by not restoring
while a stream is being iterated.

Revert to not restoring there. A caller that keeps iterating still gets a
correct, deterministic restore on its very next __next__()/__anext__() call
(completion_stream is exhausted, so that immediately re-raises
StopIteration/StopAsyncIteration through the already-restoring branch). A
caller that stops right after finish_reason relies on aclose() or the
best-effort __del__ guard, same as any other stream the caller doesn't fully
exhaust.

* refactor(logging): hoist a safely-hoistable function-body import to module top

CorrelationContextFilter.filter()'s `import litellm` was a function-body
import; verified it can move to module top without a circular-import failure
(litellm/__init__.py already imports from litellm._logging before setting
request_correlation_in_logs, but a bare `import litellm` only binds the
already-in-sys.modules module object - the attribute itself isn't read until
filter() actually runs, by which point litellm is fully initialized).

* test(logging): move correlation tests into their conventionally-mapped files

tests/test_litellm/ mirrors litellm/ in a parallel path. Correlation tests
for the Logging class (litellm_logging.py), function_setup/wrapper_async
(utils.py), and CustomStreamWrapper (streaming_handler.py) had all landed in
test_logging.py, which only maps to litellm/_logging.py itself. Moving each
group to its correctly-mapped file: test_litellm_logging.py (Logging class
init/restore), test_utils.py (function_setup, wrapper_async), and
test_streaming_handler.py (CustomStreamWrapper) in the next commit.
test_logging.py keeps only what actually exercises _logging.py's own
contextvars/filters/formatters/sanitization. No behavior change - same
assertions, same coverage, just relocated.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context unconditionally in wrapper()'s sync path

Blocking finding from review: a caller-visible correlation feature was
silently misattributing one request's logs to a different, unrelated one on
the sync/threaded path. wrapper()/wrapper_async() both left trace_id/session_id
"open" across a stream's entire iteration so the caller's own log lines while
consuming it would carry the right ids. That's safe for wrapper_async(): each
async call gets its own asyncio Task with its own copy of the contextvars,
and Tasks are never recycled across requests, so a leftover value can only
ever affect that one already-abandoned Task.

It is not safe for wrapper() (sync): a plain OS thread has no such per-call
isolation, and a thread pool's worker threads *are* recycled across unrelated
requests. If a sync stream was abandoned (client disconnect, early break, an
uncaught exception) without ever being exhausted or closed, nothing restored
its contextvars, and a pool could later hand that same thread to a completely
different call, which would inherit the abandoned request's ids as its own
"pre-call" baseline and then restore back to that poison when it finished -
permanently misattributing every subsequent log line on that thread,
including its own, to the abandoned request. Strengthening the __del__
finalizer already added for this can't fix it: finalizer timing is exactly
what a permanently-reused thread can't rely on.

wrapper() now restores unconditionally in its own finally, before a sync
stream is ever handed back to the caller. The trade-off: a sync stream
consumer's own application-level log statements while iterating no longer
automatically carry this call's ids (litellm's own internal per-chunk
logging is unaffected, since it's dispatched separately). That's an
acceptable cost for eliminating a silent cross-request misattribution bug.
wrapper_async() keeps the existing conditional (skip-if-streaming) behavior,
justified by the Task-isolation argument above; CustomStreamWrapper's
__del__/aclose()/next-iteration restore machinery remains meaningful and
necessary there.

This also simplifies wrapper()/wrapper_async() back toward their original
shape: both previously used a mutable-dict-holder split into a separate
_body function to smuggle logging_obj/result out to an outer finally,
working around function_setup() rebinding its own local `kwargs`. That
restructuring is no longer needed - `logging_obj` (and, for wrapper_async(),
`result`) were already function-level locals in scope for a plain
try/finally; three of wrapper_async()'s retry-return statements now assign
through `result` first so it accurately reflects what's actually returned
even on a retry path.

Regression test: test_abandoned_sync_stream_does_not_contaminate_a_later_call_on_the_same_thread
in test_streaming_handler.py reproduces the exact reported scenario with a
real single-worker ThreadPoolExecutor - confirmed it fails with the prior
(skip-restore-on-stream) wrapper() and passes with this fix.

* refactor(logging): use Mapping instead of bare dict for read-only params

_get_standard_logging_payload_trace_id/_session_id only read litellm_params
(.get() calls, no mutation) - annotate it as Mapping[str, Any] rather than a
bare mutable dict, per the repo's no-mutable-collection-in-annotation rule.

* fix(logging): scope request_correlation_in_logs to the async/proxy path only

Blocking review finding: wrapper() (the sync entry point) used the same
skip-restore-on-stream design as wrapper_async(), but a plain OS thread has
no per-call context isolation the way an asyncio Task does, and a thread
pool's worker threads are recycled across unrelated requests - an abandoned
sync stream could leave its ids stuck on a thread a pool later hands to a
completely different request, misattributing that request's logs. A fix
existed and was tested (restore unconditionally in wrapper()'s own finally),
but it doesn't benefit this feature's primary consumer - the proxy only ever
calls the async entry point - and carries sync-specific complexity this PR
doesn't need.

Scope the feature to async only instead: Logging.__init__() takes a new
supports_correlation_logging parameter (default True), threaded down from a
new function_setup(..., is_async_call: bool = True) parameter. wrapper() is
the one caller that passes is_async_call=False; every other function_setup()
call site (wrapper_async(), the router, and proxy/MCP-internal call sites)
is already async and keeps the default. With
supports_correlation_logging=False, Logging.__init__() never calls
set_trace_id()/set_session_id() at all, so a sync call has nothing to leak
in the first place. wrapper() reverts to its pre-review shape with no
correlation-specific code at all.

StandardLoggingPayload's own trace_id/session_id fields are unaffected
either way - they're a deterministic per-call read of
self.litellm_trace_id/self.litellm_session_id, not ambient contextvar state,
so they were never exposed to the cross-request bug.

Full sync/direct-SDK support (stamping + its own safe-restore mechanism) is
deferred to a follow-up PR; the fix and its regression test already exist in
this branch's history at commit 9f3a20f4b2 and can be resurrected there.

Tests: replaced the two wrapper()-level tests with ones proving the new
invariant (sync calls, streaming and non-streaming, never touch
trace_id_var/session_id_var even when the caller explicitly passes
litellm_trace_id/litellm_session_id), and added a direct unit test for the
supports_correlation_logging=False gate on Logging.__init__ itself. Verified
live: a real proxy (Postgres-backed, real OpenAI calls) shows clean
trace_id/session_id isolation across two concurrent sessions with no
cross-contamination; a standalone script confirms real sync SDK calls
against a real model never touch the correlation contextvars.

* feat(logging): fall back to W3C traceparent/baggage for trace_id/session_id

request_correlation_in_logs previously only resolved trace_id/session_id from
litellm-specific sources: x-litellm-trace-id/x-litellm-session-id headers, a
generic x-<vendor>-session-id header, or Anthropic-style metadata.user_id. If
none were present, trace_id fell back to an auto-generated UUID unrelated to
anything else, and session_id stayed empty - even when the caller already had
real distributed-tracing instrumentation sending the actual industry-standard
headers for this.

Add a fallback to the W3C Trace Context traceparent header (trace-id
component) and W3C Baggage header (session.id entry), so a request already
carrying real OpenTelemetry trace context correlates litellm's own logs with
the same trace in the caller's observability backend (Datadog, Honeycomb,
Tempo, etc.) instead of getting an unrelated generated id. Precedence is
unchanged for existing sources: explicit litellm headers and the Anthropic
metadata path both still win over this new fallback, which only fires when
neither found anything. trace_id and session_id are resolved independently
here (unlike the existing chain_id mechanism, which uses one shared value for
both), since traceparent and baggage are semantically distinct W3C concepts.

New helpers _trace_id_from_traceparent/_session_id_from_baggage in
litellm_pre_call_utils.py parse the header formats directly (no new
dependency - both are simple fixed-width/delimited strings), wired into
LiteLLMProxyRequestSetup.add_litellm_metadata_from_request_headers() only
when the corresponding litellm_trace_id/litellm_session_id key isn't already
set by the existing paths.

Verified live against a real proxy: a bare traceparent header produces a log
trace_id exactly matching its trace-id component; a traceparent alongside an
explicit x-litellm-trace-id header (different value) produces a log showing
the explicit header's value, proving precedence.

* fix(logging): reserve trace_id/session_id in JsonFormatter against message-content spoofing

JsonFormatter merges keys parsed from the message body before applying extra
record attributes, and the extra-attributes loop skips a key that's already
present. A caller-controlled log message that happens to parse as JSON/dict
with a "trace_id"/"session_id" key (e.g. the proxy logging a raw request-header
dict) could therefore make the JSON record carry the attacker-supplied value
instead of the real correlation context set via CorrelationContextFilter.

trace_id/session_id are now applied from the LogRecord's own attributes after
message-content parsing, unconditionally overwriting anything the message body
claimed for those two keys.

* style(logging): fix import order (ruff I001) in _logging.py and litellm_logging.py

- _logging.py: import litellm belongs after the stdlib from-imports, grouped
  with the other litellm.* imports, not before them.
- litellm_logging.py: the refactor to Mapping introduced a second, separate
  `from collections.abc import Mapping` instead of merging it into the
  existing `from collections.abc import Callable` import.

Caught by the strict-rule budget gate (ruff-strict-budget.json caps I001 at
0 new violations); both auto-fixed with `ruff check --fix --select I001`.

* style(logging): freeze mutable-collection constructions flagged by LIT002

Five sites in this PR's diff built a mutable list/dict literal instead of a
frozen value: a plain list of optional strings in CorrelationPlainFormatter,
a `kwargs or {}` fallback, a `metadata or {}` fallback, two `[...]` candidate
orderings, and a `dict(headers)` copy feeding a dict comprehension. Each is
build-once/read-only, so this rewrites them as tuples, MappingProxyType, or a
plain conditional `.get()` instead of seeding then reading a fresh mutable
collection - no behavior change, confirmed by the existing test suite.

Caught by the type-discipline budget gate (LIT002 capped at 0 new
violations).

* fix(logging): reserve trace_id/session_id even when no correlation context is active

Live-proxy verification surfaced a gap in the earlier message-content-spoofing
fix (7f390a57fc): that fix only overwrites trace_id/session_id from the
LogRecord's own attribute, so it does nothing for a log line emitted before
CorrelationContextFilter has stamped anything on this record (e.g. the
"Request Headers" debug line, which fires before Logging.__init__() runs for
the request). On such a record, a caller-supplied header literally named
trace_id/session_id still got promoted into the JSON output via the embedded
JSON/dict-repr parser, since there was no genuine value to protect.

Fixed at the source: trace_id/session_id are now excluded unconditionally from
the message-content-parsing promotion step, not just superseded afterward.
Verified live against a real proxy - the exact adversarial request (headers
literally named trace_id/session_id) no longer leaks into any JSON log record.
Added a regression test for this no-active-context variant specifically,
confirmed it fails against the prior commit and passes now.

Also fixes an unrelated basedpyright regression from an earlier rebase's
conflict resolution: litellm/utils.py's `logging_obj` was incorrectly
re-annotated `Final` at its second assignment in function_setup() (it's first
declared `None` a few lines earlier), which basedpyright correctly rejects.

* fix(proxy): stop logging the raw W3C baggage session_id value

_session_id_from_baggage() extracts the caller-controlled session.id entry
verbatim - it isn't sanitized until set_session_id() runs later in
Logging.__init__(). The debug log line for this extraction interpolated the
raw value directly, so a caller could embed terminal control characters or
ANSI escape sequences that forge/alter plaintext log output for anyone
tailing the proxy's logs.

Verified live: a baggage header with an embedded ANSI escape reached the
terminal as a real, unescaped control sequence before this fix. Drops the
value from the log line entirely (the extraction succeeding is enough signal
on its own) rather than sanitizing-then-logging, matching veria-ai's
suggestion. Added a regression test using caplog that fails against the prior
commit and passes now.

* fix(logging): restore consumer context only after stream-failure exception mapping

_map_anthropic_exception/_map_aleph_alpha_exception synchronously log a debug
diagnostic (the raw status code) as part of exception_type()'s mapping.
_handle_stream_fallback_error restored the consumer's outer correlation
context before calling exception_type(), so that diagnostic log line carried
the outer (or empty) trace_id/session_id instead of the failing stream's own -
flagged by Greptile.

Moved the restore to run after mapping completes, matching the same
restore-after-not-before pattern already applied elsewhere in this file for
success/finish_reason handling. Added a regression test that captures the
correlation context live during a mocked exception_type() call; fails against
the prior commit, passes now.

* fix(logging): restore consumer context only after aclose()'s stream close completes

aclose() restored the consumer's outer correlation context as its first
statement, before awaiting the underlying provider stream's own aclose()/
close(). If that close attempt raises, the except branch's debug diagnostic
ran under the already-restored outer context instead of the closing stream's
own trace_id/session_id - flagged by Greptile, same restore-too-early pattern
as the stream-failure fix in f1cf9589d6.

Moved the restore to the end of aclose(), after the close attempt (and its
diagnostic logging) completes. Added a regression test with a fake stream
whose aclose() raises, capturing the correlation context live during the
diagnostic log call; fails against the prior commit, passes now.

* style(logging): satisfy new strict-lint budgets introduced upstream (Final, ANN401, S110, TRY300, kwargs typing)

Rebasing onto litellm_internal_staging pulled in 116 upstream commits that
introduced/tightened several lint gates this PR's own code now trips:

- LIT010 (every local/module-level variable must be Final): added Final
  annotations across _logging.py, litellm_logging.py, streaming_handler.py,
  litellm_pre_call_utils.py, and utils.py. Where a name is genuinely
  reassigned (logging_obj: starts None, later set to the real object) or
  branch-assigned, either restructured into a single ternary expression
  (ordered_candidates) or suppressed with `# rebind-ok: <reason>` matching
  this repo's documented escape hatch.
- LIT011 (parameter mutation): suppressed the two new `data[key] = value`
  writes in litellm_pre_call_utils.py with `# rebind-ok`, matching the
  unsuppressed precedent already used for every other `data[...]` write in
  the same function - `data` is an intentional out-param there.
- ANN001/ANN003/ANN202 (missing parameter/return type annotations): fully
  typed success_handler/_success_handler_body, their async twins, and
  failure_handler/_failure_handler_body/async variants in litellm_logging.py,
  plus function_setup in utils.py (added Rules to its existing TYPE_CHECKING
  block for the rules_obj: Rules annotation).
- ANN401 (explicit Any disallowed): suppressed with `# noqa: ANN401` on the
  handful of genuinely-heterogeneous result/*args/**kwargs parameters, since
  ordinary suppression is this repo's documented path.
- S110 (try/except/pass): added to the existing BLE001 noqa on the one
  best-effort correlation-cleanup try/except this PR added.
- TRY300 (return inside try): moved two `return result` statements into
  `else:` blocks in the retry-fallback paths this PR's own diff touched.
- reportPrivateUsage (basedpyright): renamed the two new
  StandardLoggingPayloadSetup static methods (get_standard_logging_payload_
  trace_id/session_id) to drop their leading underscore, since they're
  genuinely called from a sibling module-level function in the same file.

No behavior change - confirmed by the full existing test suite (819 passed)
plus all four lint gates (ruff format, ruff-strict, type-discipline,
basedpyright) passing clean.

* fix(lint): stop RUF100 flagging noqa suppressions the strict gate needs

CI's plain "ruff check" job uses the default ruff.toml, a narrower config
than ruff-strict.toml (used only by the strict-rule budget gate). ANN401 and
S110 aren't enabled in the default config, so RUF100 (unused-noqa) flagged
the `# noqa: ANN401`/`# noqa: ...,S110` suppressions this PR added as pointless
under that config, even though they're genuinely needed under ruff-strict.toml.

- ANN401: added to ruff.toml's existing `lint.external` list (same mechanism
  already used for C901/TID251, enforced by the strict gate but not by this
  config) - these Any usages are genuinely dynamic/forwarded, so the
  suppression itself is correct and just needed registering.
- S110: fixed the underlying code instead of registering another external
  code - the try/except/pass in
  CustomStreamWrapper._restore_consumer_correlation_context now logs at
  debug level on failure (matching the existing best-effort-cleanup pattern
  in _record_partial_usage_for_failure elsewhere in this file), which
  satisfies S110's own suggestion directly and needs no suppression at all.

Verified against both ruff.toml and ruff-strict.toml directly, plus all
three other gates (ruff format, type-discipline, basedpyright) and the full
test suite (821 passed).

* fix(lint): scope the ANN401 exemption to file level instead of a repo-wide noqa

Ruff has no per-line-scoped way to register a noqa code across configs (that
requires the default ruff.toml's lint.external list, which is repo-wide in
scope even though the noqa itself is per-line). Since ruff does support
file-level exemptions via per-file-ignores, and ANN401 only needed exempting
in exactly two files, moved the exemption there instead:

- ruff-strict.toml: added [lint.per-file-ignores] disabling ANN401 for
  litellm_logging.py and utils.py specifically, with a comment explaining
  why (heterogeneous response/forwarded-args parameters with no fitting
  concrete type - already verified by trying CostResponseTypes and hitting
  a real basedpyright mismatch).
- ruff.toml: reverted the ANN401 entry from lint.external - no longer
  needed, since there's no `# noqa: ANN401` left anywhere for RUF100 to
  second-guess.
- Removed the now-redundant `# noqa: ANN401` from the 10 affected
  parameters in both files, keeping the existing kwargs-ok reasons and
  adding a short inline comment on the `result`/`*args` lines pointing at
  the ruff-strict.toml exemption for context.

Verified against both configs directly (ANN401 clean under ruff-strict.toml
for these files, RUF100 clean under the default config), all four gates
(ruff format, ruff-strict, type-discipline, basedpyright), and the full
test suite (821 passed).

* fix(logging): redact credential-shaped trace_id/session_id before stamping log records

CorrelationContextFilter stamps trace_id/session_id onto a LogRecord after
SecretRedactionFilter has already run, so a caller-controlled value (e.g. via
x-litellm-trace-id or a W3C baggage header) that happens to look like a real
credential reached JSON and plaintext logs unredacted. Apply the same
credential redaction already used elsewhere in this module at
_sanitize_correlation_id(), the single choke point both set_trace_id() and
set_session_id() route through, so every caller-facing entry point is covered
without depending on filter ordering.

* fix(logging): restore correlation context when a stream's max-duration timeout fires

CustomStreamWrapper.__anext__() called _check_max_streaming_duration() before
entering its try block, so the litellm.Timeout it raises bypassed the except
Exception -> _handle_stream_fallback_error path entirely, leaking the timed-out
stream's own trace_id/session_id into whatever the consumer's task logs next.
Move the check inside the try so it flows through the same restoration path
every other stream failure already uses.

* test(streaming): make dispatch_failure_handlers mock awaitable for the async max-duration test

Moving _check_max_streaming_duration() inside __anext__()'s try block (prior
commit) means a max-duration Timeout now dispatches failure handlers through
the same path every other stream failure already uses, instead of bypassing
it entirely. dispatch_failure_handlers is async on the real Logging class;
the test's plain MagicMock logging_obj made asyncio.create_task() choke on a
non-coroutine return value once that path actually got exercised.

---------

Co-authored-by: Deepanshu <deepanshu.lulla@alpha-sense.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.circleci ci: pin Node on the Playwright UI lanes so npm ci meets the engines floor 2026-08-04 16:31:38 -07:00
.devcontainer build: migrate packaging, CI, and Docker from Poetry to uv (#25007) 2026-04-09 11:46:23 -07:00
.githooks chore(hooks): enforce Conventional Commits and Conventional Branches (#30174) 2026-06-11 10:00:23 -07:00
.github docs: replace the Changes PR template section with Caveats (#36423) 2026-08-10 17:05:47 +00:00
.semgrep/rules security: remove .claude/settings.json and add semgrep rule to prevent re-adding 2026-03-25 11:57:43 -07:00
backend fix(docker): bake the componentized prisma engines at /opt/prisma so any uid can start (#35989) 2026-08-05 13:38:46 -07:00
ci_cd ci: enforce format assertions so calendar-impossible deprecation dates fail validation 2026-07-28 16:11:22 -07:00
cookbook feat(cookbook): add a Grafana dashboard for the OTel GenAI metrics (#35159) 2026-07-30 17:29:40 +00:00
db_scripts fix(db_scripts): pin the tool spend backfill session to UTC 2026-07-27 12:29:19 -07:00
docker fix(docker): fail the image build when the generated prisma engine paths drift off /opt/prisma (#35979) 2026-08-05 14:12:28 -07:00
enterprise fix(proxy): report has_more false on caller-scoped file list pages 2026-08-08 17:28:43 -07:00
examples chore: litellm oss staging (#31185) 2026-06-26 09:17:44 -07:00
gateway fix(docker): bake the componentized prisma engines at /opt/prisma so any uid can start (#35989) 2026-08-05 13:38:46 -07:00
helm docs(helm): replace the classic chart's 128Mi resource example with the documented 4Gi sizing (#35830) 2026-08-04 15:17:12 -07:00
litellm feat(logging): add opt-in session_id and trace_id correlation to JSON log records via contextvars (#34418) 2026-08-10 10:40:13 -07:00
litellm-proxy-extras feat(ptu): configure provisioned-throughput flat cost on a model deployment (#35341) 2026-08-10 09:51:16 -07:00
litellm-rust refactor(rust): make litellm-core the callable messages() SDK; drop the ai-gateway handler (#35044) 2026-07-29 13:41:31 -07:00
migrations fix(docker): bake prisma offline in the componentized migrations image (#35485) 2026-08-01 14:12:31 -07:00
packaging/homebrew feat(cli): per-agent lite claude / codex / opencode commands that wrap coding agents through the proxy (#29850) 2026-06-10 13:52:26 -07:00
scripts Merge pull request #36277 from BerriAI/litellm_make_check_fallback 2026-08-08 12:08:34 -07:00
terraform feat(terraform): sync provider 0.3.0 from mirror and cut 0.4.0 2026-08-06 09:49:13 -07:00
tests feat(logging): add opt-in session_id and trace_id correlation to JSON log records via contextvars (#34418) 2026-08-10 10:40:13 -07:00
ui feat(ptu): configure provisioned-throughput flat cost on a model deployment (#35341) 2026-08-10 09:51:16 -07:00
.dockerignore build(docker): build the Admin UI from source in a build-platform-pinned stage (#31130) 2026-06-25 23:41:08 -07:00
.env.example Add new model provider Novita AI (#7582) (#9527) 2025-05-12 21:49:30 -07:00
.git-blame-ignore-revs chore: ignore the mechanical lint and typing sweeps in git blame 2026-08-06 11:39:34 +00:00
.gitattributes feat(ui): generate dashboard API types from the proxy OpenAPI spec (#29816) 2026-06-05 17:20:01 -07:00
.gitguardian.yaml build: migrate packaging, CI, and Docker from Poetry to uv (#25007) 2026-04-09 11:46:23 -07:00
.gitignore fix(lint): measure the basedpyright budget gate in a gate-owned venv 2026-08-05 21:33:24 -07:00
.npmrc [Fix] CI/Tooling: Correct min-release-age value in .npmrc files 2026-04-29 19:49:27 -07:00
AGENTS.md docs: hand-written CLAUDE.md; point GEMINI.md and AGENTS.md at it (#29252) 2026-05-29 00:05:05 -07:00
ARCHITECTURE.md feat(litellm): add models and repository layers (#29686) 2026-06-06 20:59:33 -07:00
basedpyright-code-budget.json chore(typing): remove 914 basedpyright Any errors across 16 hotspot files 2026-08-10 01:24:40 -07:00
CLAUDE.md docs: clarify the CLAUDE.md comment exceptions are any-of 2026-08-10 16:49:04 +00:00
codecov.yaml feat(jwt): fall back to DB team memberships when JWT has no team claims (#31356) 2026-07-06 17:17:10 -07:00
CONTRIBUTING.md chore(ci): retire daily OSS branches in favor of litellm_internal_staging 2026-07-20 11:38:52 -07:00
cosign.pub [Infra] Add release workflow and cosign public key 2026-03-31 14:30:27 -07:00
docker-compose.hardened.yml [Feature] Download Prisma binaries at build time instead of at runtime for Security Restricted environments (#17695) 2025-12-16 21:25:53 +05:30
docker-compose.yml feat: add read-replica routing for Prisma DB via DATABASE_URL_READ_REPLICA (#27493) 2026-05-08 21:05:50 -07:00
Dockerfile fix(docker): fail the image build when the generated prisma engine paths drift off /opt/prisma (#35979) 2026-08-05 14:12:28 -07:00
GEMINI.md docs: hand-written CLAUDE.md; point GEMINI.md and AGENTS.md at it (#29252) 2026-05-29 00:05:05 -07:00
LICENSE refactor: creating enterprise folder 2024-02-15 12:54:13 -08:00
license_cache.json Add granian as a ASGI compliant web server. Provider better throughput stability, (#26027) 2026-05-21 19:08:37 -07:00
Makefile build(lint): rename make pre-commit to make check with a working-tree fallback 2026-08-08 03:25:35 -07:00
mcp_servers.json Add ScrapeGraph MCP server configuration (#18923) 2026-01-11 21:57:46 +05:30
model_prices_and_context_window.json fix(bedrock): enable native structured output for GLM 5 and DeepSeek V3.2 (#35669) 2026-08-10 10:18:13 -07:00
model_prices_and_context_window.schema.json fix(pricing): regenerate model prices schema for flex long-context fields 2026-07-30 21:23:59 -07:00
osv-scanner.toml build(deps): defer the second pypdf advisory until the 6.15.0 bump 2026-08-07 19:58:22 +00:00
package-lock.json chore(deps): refresh dependency locks 2026-05-04 11:36:18 -07:00
package.json chore(deps): refresh dependency locks 2026-05-04 11:36:18 -07:00
policy_templates.json feat: Add Canadian PII protection (PIPEDA) (#22951) 2026-03-06 18:27:31 -08:00
prometheus.yml build(docker-compose.yml): add prometheus scraper to docker compose 2024-07-24 10:09:23 -07:00
provider_endpoints_support.json feat: add Meta Model API provider and muse-spark-1.1 (day-0) (#32701) 2026-07-09 20:45:27 -07:00
proxy_server_config.yaml fix(ci): let the E2E proxy accept the mock testing params its suite sends 2026-08-01 14:57:42 -07:00
pyproject.toml bump: litellm-enterprise 0.1.53 -> 0.1.54, litellm-proxy-extras 0.4.83 -> 0.4.84 2026-08-06 17:01:15 -07:00
pyrightconfig.json test(e2e): move Admin UI Playwright suite to tests/e2e/ui (#34196) 2026-07-22 19:43:10 +00:00
qa_sticky_session.sh feat(sandbox): reuse e2b container across requests when metadata.session_id is set (#31688) 2026-06-30 18:58:09 -07:00
README.md chore: keep it concise 2026-07-11 20:32:34 -07:00
render.yaml build(render.yaml): fix health check route 2024-05-24 09:45:28 -07:00
router_plugins.json feat(router): add router plugin reference catalog (#33746) 2026-07-17 18:46:20 +00:00
ruff-strict-budget.json chore(typing): remove 914 basedpyright Any errors across 16 hotspot files 2026-08-10 01:24:40 -07:00
ruff-strict.toml feat(logging): add opt-in session_id and trace_id correlation to JSON log records via contextvars (#34418) 2026-08-10 10:40:13 -07:00
ruff.toml refactor(lint): graduate the 35 zero-violation strict rules into ruff.toml 2026-08-07 23:10:33 -07:00
schema.prisma feat(ptu): configure provisioned-throughput flat cost on a model deployment (#35341) 2026-08-10 09:51:16 -07:00
security.md docs(security): require a reproduction video for vulnerability reports (#30048) (#30063) 2026-06-09 14:59:50 -07:00
taplo.toml fix(agentcore): simplify agentcore streaming (#17141) 2026-01-19 05:20:24 -08:00
type-discipline-budget.json chore(typing): remove 914 basedpyright Any errors across 16 hotspot files 2026-08-10 01:24:40 -07:00
uv.lock build(deps): bump gitpython to 3.1.58, defer pypdf advisory 2026-08-07 19:23:57 +00:00

🚅 LiteLLM

LiteLLM AI Gateway

Open Source AI Gateway for 100+ LLMs. Self-hosted. Enterprise-ready. Call any LLM in OpenAI format.

Deploy to Render Deploy on Railway Deploy on AWS Deploy on GCP

LiteLLM Proxy Server (AI Gateway) | Hosted Proxy | Enterprise Tier | Website

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LiteLLM AI Gateway

What is LiteLLM

LiteLLM is an open source AI Gateway that gives you a single, unified interface to call 100+ LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Bedrock, Azure, and more — using the OpenAI format.

Use it as a Python SDK for direct library integration, or deploy the AI Gateway (Proxy Server) as a centralized service for your team or organization.

Jump to LiteLLM Proxy (LLM Gateway) Docs
Jump to Supported LLM Providers


Why LiteLLM

Managing LLM calls across providers gets complicated fast — different SDKs, auth patterns, request formats, and error types for every model. LiteLLM removes that friction:

  • Unified API — one interface for 100+ LLMs, no provider-specific SDK juggling
  • Drop-in OpenAI compatibility — swap providers without rewriting your code
  • Production-ready gateway — virtual keys, spend tracking, guardrails, load balancing, and an admin dashboard out of the box
  • 8ms P95 latency at 1k RPS (benchmarks)

OSS Adopters

Stripe image Google ADK Greptile OpenHands

Netflix

OpenAI Agents SDK

Features

LLMs - Call 100+ LLMs (Python SDK + AI Gateway)

All Supported Endpoints - /chat/completions, /responses, /embeddings, /images, /audio, /batches, /rerank, /a2a, /messages and more.

Python SDK

uv add litellm
from litellm import completion
import os

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-openai-key"
os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = "your-anthropic-key"

# OpenAI
response = completion(model="openai/gpt-4o", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}])

# Anthropic  
response = completion(model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}])

AI Gateway (Proxy Server)

Getting Started - E2E Tutorial - Setup virtual keys, make your first request

uv tool install 'litellm[proxy]'
litellm --model gpt-4o
import openai

client = openai.OpenAI(api_key="anything", base_url="http://0.0.0.0:4000")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="gpt-4o",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello!"}]
)

Docs: LLM Providers

Agents - Invoke A2A Agents (Python SDK + AI Gateway)

Supported Providers - LangGraph, Vertex AI Agent Engine, Azure AI Foundry, Bedrock AgentCore, Pydantic AI

Python SDK - A2A Protocol

from litellm.a2a_protocol import A2AClient
from a2a.types import SendMessageRequest, MessageSendParams
from uuid import uuid4

client = A2AClient(base_url="http://localhost:10001")

request = SendMessageRequest(
    id=str(uuid4()),
    params=MessageSendParams(
        message={
            "role": "user",
            "parts": [{"kind": "text", "text": "Hello!"}],
            "messageId": uuid4().hex,
        }
    )
)
response = await client.send_message(request)

AI Gateway (Proxy Server)

Step 1. Add your Agent to the AI Gateway — set protocolVersion to 1.0 or 0.3 per agent

Step 2. Call Agent via A2A SDK (requires a2a-sdk>=1.1.0)

import httpx
from a2a.client import A2ACardResolver, ClientConfig, ClientFactory
from a2a.types import Message, Part, Role, SendMessageRequest
from a2a.utils.constants import TransportProtocol
from uuid import uuid4

base_url = "http://localhost:4000/a2a/my-agent"  # LiteLLM proxy + agent name
headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer sk-1234"}    # LiteLLM Virtual Key

async with httpx.AsyncClient(headers=headers, timeout=60.0) as http_client:
    resolver = A2ACardResolver(httpx_client=http_client, base_url=base_url)
    agent_card = await resolver.get_agent_card()
    config = ClientConfig(
        httpx_client=http_client,
        streaming=False,
        supported_protocol_bindings=[TransportProtocol.JSONRPC, TransportProtocol.HTTP_JSON],
    )
    client = ClientFactory(config).create(agent_card)

    request = SendMessageRequest(
        message=Message(
            message_id=uuid4().hex,
            role=Role.ROLE_USER,
            parts=[Part(text="Hello!")],
        )
    )
    async for event in client.send_message(request):
        populated = event.ListFields()
        if populated and populated[0][0].name in ("message", "msg"):
            print("".join(getattr(p, "text", "") or "" for p in populated[0][1].parts))

Docs: A2A Agent Gateway

MCP Tools - Connect MCP servers to any LLM (Python SDK + AI Gateway)

Python SDK - MCP Bridge

from mcp import ClientSession, StdioServerParameters
from mcp.client.stdio import stdio_client
from litellm import experimental_mcp_client
import litellm

server_params = StdioServerParameters(command="python", args=["mcp_server.py"])

async with stdio_client(server_params) as (read, write):
    async with ClientSession(read, write) as session:
        await session.initialize()

        # Load MCP tools in OpenAI format
        tools = await experimental_mcp_client.load_mcp_tools(session=session, format="openai")

        # Use with any LiteLLM model
        response = await litellm.acompletion(
            model="gpt-4o",
            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "What's 3 + 5?"}],
            tools=tools
        )

AI Gateway - MCP Gateway

Step 1. Add your MCP Server to the AI Gateway

Step 2. Call MCP tools via /chat/completions

curl -X POST 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/v1/chat/completions' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize the latest open PR"}],
    "tools": [{
      "type": "mcp",
      "server_url": "litellm_proxy/mcp/github",
      "server_label": "github_mcp",
      "require_approval": "never"
    }]
  }'

Use with Cursor IDE

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "LiteLLM": {
      "url": "http://localhost:4000/mcp/",
      "headers": {
        "x-litellm-api-key": "Bearer sk-1234"
      }
    }
  }
}

Docs: MCP Gateway

Supported Providers (Website Supported Models | Docs)

Provider /chat/completions /messages /responses /embeddings /image/generations /audio/transcriptions /audio/speech /moderations /batches /rerank
Abliteration (abliteration)
AI/ML API (aiml)
AI21 (ai21)
AI21 Chat (ai21_chat)
Aleph Alpha
Amazon Nova
Anthropic (anthropic)
Anthropic Text (anthropic_text)
Anyscale
AssemblyAI (assemblyai)
Auto Router (auto_router)
AWS - Bedrock (bedrock)
AWS - Sagemaker (sagemaker)
Azure (azure)
Azure AI (azure_ai)
Azure Text (azure_text)
Baseten (baseten)
Bytez (bytez)
Cerebras (cerebras)
Clarifai (clarifai)
Cloudflare AI Workers (cloudflare)
Codestral (codestral)
Cohere (cohere)
Cohere Chat (cohere_chat)
CometAPI (cometapi)
CompactifAI (compactifai)
Custom (custom)
Custom OpenAI (custom_openai)
Dashscope (dashscope)
Databricks (databricks)
DataRobot (datarobot)
Deepgram (deepgram)
DeepInfra (deepinfra)
Deepseek (deepseek)
ElevenLabs (elevenlabs)
Empower (empower)
Fal AI (fal_ai)
Featherless AI (featherless_ai)
Fireworks AI (fireworks_ai)
FriendliAI (friendliai)
Galadriel (galadriel)
GitHub Copilot (github_copilot)
GitHub Models (github)
Google - PaLM
Google - Vertex AI (vertex_ai)
Google AI Studio - Gemini (gemini)
GradientAI (gradient_ai)
Groq AI (groq)
Heroku (heroku)
Hosted VLLM (hosted_vllm)
Huggingface (huggingface)
Hyperbolic (hyperbolic)
IBM - Watsonx.ai (watsonx)
Infinity (infinity)
Jina AI (jina_ai)
Lambda AI (lambda_ai)
Lemonade (lemonade)
LiteLLM Proxy (litellm_proxy)
Llamafile (llamafile)
LM Studio (lm_studio)
Maritalk (maritalk)
Meta - Llama API (meta_llama)
Mistral AI API (mistral)
ModelScope (modelscope)
Moonshot (moonshot)
Morph (morph)
Nebius AI Studio (nebius)
NLP Cloud (nlp_cloud)
Novita AI (novita)
Nscale (nscale)
Nvidia NIM (nvidia_nim)
OCI (oci)
Ollama (ollama)
Ollama Chat (ollama_chat)
Oobabooga (oobabooga)
OpenAI (openai)
OpenAI-like (openai_like)
OpenRouter (openrouter)
OVHCloud AI Endpoints (ovhcloud)
Perplexity AI (perplexity)
Petals (petals)
Pinstripes (pinstripes)
Predibase (predibase)
Recraft (recraft)
Replicate (replicate)
Sagemaker Chat (sagemaker_chat)
Sambanova (sambanova)
Snowflake (snowflake)
Text Completion Codestral (text-completion-codestral)
Text Completion OpenAI (text-completion-openai)
Together AI (together_ai)
Topaz (topaz)
Triton (triton)
V0 (v0)
Vercel AI Gateway (vercel_ai_gateway)
VLLM (vllm)
Volcengine (volcengine)
Voyage AI (voyage)
WandB Inference (wandb)
Watsonx Text (watsonx_text)
xAI (xai)
Xinference (xinference)

Read the Docs


Get Started

You can use LiteLLM through either the Proxy Server or Python SDK. Both give you a unified interface to access multiple LLMs (100+ LLMs). Choose the option that best fits your needs:

LiteLLM AI Gateway LiteLLM Python SDK
Use Case Central service (LLM Gateway) to access multiple LLMs Use LiteLLM directly in your Python code
Who Uses It? Gen AI Enablement / ML Platform Teams Developers building LLM projects
Key Features Centralized API gateway with authentication and authorization, multi-tenant cost tracking and spend management per project/user, per-project customization (logging, guardrails, caching), virtual keys for secure access control, admin dashboard UI for monitoring and management Direct Python library integration in your codebase, Router with retry/fallback logic across multiple deployments (e.g. Azure/OpenAI) - Router, application-level load balancing and cost tracking, exception handling with OpenAI-compatible errors, observability callbacks (Lunary, MLflow, Langfuse, etc.)

Stable Release: Use docker images with the -stable tag. These have undergone 12 hour load tests, before being published. More information about the release cycle here

Support for more providers. Missing a provider or LLM Platform, raise a feature request.

Deploy on AWS or GCP with Terraform

Run the LiteLLM proxy as a production-ready componentized stack (gateway, backend, UI on separate services; managed Postgres + Redis + object store) using the published Terraform modules. Both modules are on the public Terraform Registry — no auth needed.

AWS — ECS Fargate + Aurora + ElastiCache + ALB

Launch in AWS CloudShell — opens an in-browser shell, already authenticated to your AWS account. Once inside, run:

git clone https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm.git
cd litellm/terraform/litellm/aws/examples/default
cp terraform.tfvars.example terraform.tfvars   # edit region/tenant/env
terraform init && terraform apply

Module page →

Or call the module from your own root config:

# main.tf
terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
  required_providers {
    aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws", version = "~> 5.60" }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  region = "us-west-2"
}

module "litellm" {
  source  = "BerriAI/litellm/aws"
  version = "~> 1.89"

  region = "us-west-2"
  azs    = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b"]
  tenant = "acme"
  env    = "prod"

  # Production: provide an ACM cert. Without one, set allow_plaintext_alb = true
  # (dev/trial only).
  # acm_certificate_arn = "arn:aws:acm:us-west-2:111122223333:certificate/..."
  allow_plaintext_alb = true
}

output "litellm_url" {
  value = module.litellm.alb_dns_name
}
terraform init
terraform apply

Provider API keys live in AWS Secrets Manager; reference ARNs via gateway_extra_secrets. Full input list and architecture diagram on the registry page.

GCP — Cloud Run + Cloud SQL + Memorystore + HTTPS LB

Open in Cloud Shell

Real 1-click. Opens Cloud Shell, clones this repo, and walks you through terraform apply via a built-in DeployStack tutorial — pick the project, the tutorial sets up the Artifact Registry remote repo, writes terraform.tfvars from your answers, and runs apply.

Module page →

To call the module from your own config instead, Cloud Run can't pull from ghcr.io directly, so first set up a one-time Artifact Registry remote repo backed by GHCR:

gcloud artifacts repositories create litellm \
  --location=us-central1 \
  --repository-format=docker \
  --mode=remote-repository \
  --remote-docker-repo=https://ghcr.io \
  --project=my-gcp-project

Then:

# main.tf
terraform {
  required_version = ">= 1.6.0"
  required_providers {
    google      = { source = "hashicorp/google",      version = "~> 6.10" }
    google-beta = { source = "hashicorp/google-beta", version = "~> 6.10" }
  }
}

provider "google"      { project = "my-gcp-project"; region = "us-central1" }
provider "google-beta" { project = "my-gcp-project"; region = "us-central1" }

module "litellm" {
  source  = "BerriAI/litellm/google"
  version = "~> 1.89"

  project_id = "my-gcp-project"
  region     = "us-central1"
  tenant     = "acme"
  env        = "prod"

  # Replace my-gcp-project with your GCP project ID (same value as project_id above).
  image_registry = "us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/my-gcp-project/litellm/berriai"

  # Production: provide DNS already pointing at the LB IP for Google-managed certs.
  # Without one, set allow_plaintext_lb = true (dev/trial only).
  # lb_domains         = ["proxy.example.com"]
  allow_plaintext_lb = true
}

output "litellm_url" {
  value = module.litellm.load_balancer_url
}
terraform init
terraform apply

Provider API keys live in Secret Manager; reference resource IDs (e.g. projects/my-gcp-project/secrets/openai-api-key) via gateway_extra_secrets. Full input list and architecture diagram on the registry page.

Both stacks include

  • The full componentized split (gateway / backend / UI as independent services)
  • Managed Postgres (writer + reader) and Redis
  • Versioned object store for proxy state + file uploads
  • An auto-generated LITELLM_MASTER_KEY in your cloud's secret manager
  • A one-off migration job that runs prisma migrate deploy before the proxy starts
  • The same proxy_config surface as the Helm chart — pass YAML as a typed map

The Terraform modules live at terraform/litellm/aws/ and terraform/litellm/gcp/ in this repo; the registry entries are read-only mirrors updated on each release.

Run in Developer Mode

Services

  1. Setup .env file in root
  2. Run dependent services docker-compose up db prometheus

Backend

  1. Run make bootstrap
  2. Start proxy backend: uv run python litellm/proxy/proxy_cli.py

Frontend

  1. Navigate to ui/litellm-dashboard (dependencies were already installed w/ make bootstrap)
  2. Start dashboard: npm run dev

Verify Docker Image Signatures

All LiteLLM Docker images published to GHCR are signed with cosign. Every release is signed with the same key introduced in commit 0112e53.

Verify using the pinned commit hash (recommended):

A commit hash is cryptographically immutable, so this is the strongest way to ensure you are using the original signing key:

cosign verify \
  --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/0112e53046018d726492c814b3644b7d376029d0/cosign.pub \
  ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:<release-tag>

Verify using a release tag (convenience):

Tags are protected in this repository and resolve to the same key. This option is easier to read but relies on tag protection rules:

cosign verify \
  --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BerriAI/litellm/<release-tag>/cosign.pub \
  ghcr.io/berriai/litellm:<release-tag>

Replace <release-tag> with the version you are deploying (e.g. v1.83.0-stable).


Enterprise

For companies that need better security, user management and professional support

Get an Enterprise License Talk to founders

This covers:

  • Features under the LiteLLM Commercial License:
  • Feature Prioritization
  • Custom Integrations
  • Professional Support - Dedicated discord + slack
  • Custom SLAs
  • Secure access with Single Sign-On

Contributing

We welcome contributions to LiteLLM! Whether you're fixing bugs, adding features, or improving documentation, we appreciate your help.

Quick Start for Contributors

This requires uv to be installed.

git clone https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm.git
cd litellm
make install-dev    # Install development dependencies
make format         # Format your code
make lint           # Run all linting checks
make test-unit      # Run unit tests
make format-check   # Check formatting only

For detailed contributing guidelines, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

📖 Contributing to documentation? The LiteLLM docs have moved to a separate repository: BerriAI/litellm-docs. Please open doc PRs there. Docs are served at docs.litellm.ai.

Code Quality / Linting

LiteLLM follows the Google Python Style Guide.

Our automated checks include:

  • Black for code formatting
  • Ruff for linting and code quality
  • MyPy for type checking
  • Circular import detection
  • Import safety checks

All these checks must pass before your PR can be merged.

Support / talk with founders

Contributors