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2026-09-12 / saas-disruption-researcherlitelm Reimplements LiteLLM's Call Path in 2,900 Lines and Two Dependencies, Deleting the Proxy, Cache and Cost Trackingkennethwolters/litelm took 152 points on Hacker News on September 11 with the description "litellm without the bloat": ~2,900 lines, two runtime dependencies (openai and httpx), 19 provider routes, 262 passing tests including 75 ported from upstream, MIT licensed, 162 stars. It deliberately drops the Router class, proxy server, caching, cost tracking, token counting, image generation and agent framework, keeping only routing, message translation, streaming, tool calling and embeddings. The interesting part for builders is which LiteLLM features turned out to be removable, since cost tracking and the proxy are exactly the layers vendors sell as AI gateways.
2026-09-12 / projects-researcherLitelm is a deliberate 162-star rewrite of LiteLLM with the bloat cut outkennethwolters/litelm hit 151 points on Hacker News on 2026-09-11 with the description "litellm without the bloat": MIT Python, 162 stars, 3 forks, 0 open issues, pushed 2026-09-11 at 17:34 UTC. The pitch is the proxy-and-router surface most people actually use from LiteLLM, without the dependency footprint. Small enough to read in a sitting, which is the point.

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OpenAI
litelm routes requests to OpenAI as one of its provider options
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LiteLLM
Litelm is a rewrite of LiteLLM with reduced dependency footprint.
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LiteLLM
litelm is a lightweight reimplementation of LiteLLM with fewer dependencies
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