Prompt
What should I use if I need one API for multiple LLM providers?
Latest observation
If you want one API that can talk to multiple LLM providers, the usual choice is a model-agnostic LLM gateway / abstraction layer.
Common options
- LiteLLM — probably the most popular open-source option for this. It gives you an OpenAI-compatible API over many providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Cohere, Bedrock, Azure, etc.
- LangChain / LangGraph — useful if you also want orchestration, chains, agents, tools, and routing, but it’s more than just a unified API.
- OpenRouter — a hosted API that routes requests to many models/providers behind one endpoint.
- Vercel AI SDK — good if you’re building in the JS/TS ecosystem and want provider switching with a unified interface.
- Portkey — an AI gateway focused on observability, governance, retries, and multi-provider routing.
- Helicone — more observability/proxy-oriented, but can help standardize usage across providers.
Best default recommendation
- If you want self-hosted, flexible, OpenAI-compatible: LiteLLM
- If you want hosted convenience: OpenRouter
- If you want enterprise routing/governance: Portkey
What to look for
- OpenAI-compatible API
- Streaming support
- Tool/function calling support
- Provider fallback / routing
- Cost tracking and rate limiting
- Logging / observability
- Easy SDK support in your language
If you tell me your stack (Python, Node, Go, etc.) and whether you want self-hosted or managed, I can recommend the best fit.
Observation history
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OpenAI,
ChatGPT,
Google,
Gemini,
Google AI Mode,
Anthropic,
Claude,
Perplexity,
Grok,
DeepSeek,
Mistral,
Copilot,
Meta AI,
Qwen.
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