--- title: LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs — Features Overview | daily.dev description: LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway that proxies all LLM requests through a single endpoint, providing unified monitoring, access control, and cost tracking... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/litellm-ai-gateway-for-llms-features-overview-93hxfkgaq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs — Features Overview | daily.dev og:description: LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway that proxies all LLM requests through a single endpoint, providing unified monitoring, access control, and cost tracking... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/litellm-ai-gateway-for-llms-features-overview-93hxfkgaq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/93hxFkGAq.png og:image:alt: LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs — Features Overview og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # LiteLLM: AI Gateway for LLMs — Features Overview **[ITNEXT](https://daily.dev/sources/itnext)** · 24 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway that proxies all LLM requests through a single endpoint, providing unified monitoring, access control, and cost tracking across providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. The post walks through running LiteLLM locally with Docker and PostgreSQL, configuring it via YAML, writing a demo Python client, integrating OpenTelemetry traces with VictoriaTraces, and exploring access management features including teams, users, API keys, budgets, and rate limits. Key span attributes for cost, token usage, model info, and user identity are highlighted. The author notes that while the monitoring and tracing capabilities are impressive, user management has some confusing behaviors — particularly around keys created outside a team bypassing team-level rate limits. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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