What LiteLLM Is
LiteLLM is an open-source LLM proxy that provides a unified OpenAI-compatible API in front of 100+ LLM providers: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Google Vertex, AWS Bedrock, Cohere, Mistral and dozens more. The core value: write your code once against the OpenAI format, and LiteLLM routes it to whatever model and provider you want. Change providers without changing application code.
LiteLLM also includes budget management at the team and key level, spend tracking, rate limiting and basic logging. It’s widely adopted by DevOps and platform teams managing LLM access across many models.
What LiteLLM Doesn’t Do
LiteLLM sees LLM calls. It doesn’t know what an agent does with the answer: reading a repo, pushing code, changing a database. And it doesn’t build anything. Your developers still write the application, decide what’s safe, ship it and fix it.
What Sentrely Is
Sentrely is a managed AI team, backed by real engineers, that builds, ships and monitors production-grade software in accounts you own. Our engineers deploy and supervise AI employees. Your team works with them through an agent in your Slack, asking it to build, ship and monitor production-grade software. Automated safety checks run on every change, important changes get human sign-off, your data and files have a 35-day rewind, and you have a named account manager and on-call support.
Side by Side
| LiteLLM | Sentrely | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Open-source LLM proxy | Managed AI team backed by real engineers |
| Who it’s for | Developers and platform teams | Non-technical founders and business owners |
| Multi-provider LLM routing | Yes, 100+ providers | Not something we sell |
| Who builds the software | You | We do |
| Safety checks on changes | Your responsibility | Automated checks on every change |
| Human review | Your responsibility | Engineer sign-off on important changes |
| Where the software lives | Wherever you deploy it | Your own hosting and code accounts |
| Undo | Your own backups | 35-day rewind on data and files |
| Support | Community, enterprise plans | Named account manager and on-call support |
| Pricing | Free open source, enterprise plans | Custom, scoped on a free call |
When LiteLLM Is the Right Choice
- Your team uses multiple LLM providers and wants to abstract their differences
- You’re on a platform team managing LLM access for many teams and models
- You want open-source infrastructure you run yourself
- Your main concern is routing, caching and spend visibility at the API call level
When Sentrely Is the Right Choice
- You’d rather not build and run this yourself
- You need production software built, fixed and shipped, and you’re not a developer
- You want engineers accountable for what ships and a named person to call
- You want the finished software in hosting and code accounts you own
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