LiteLLM alternative? LiteLLM and the Myra AI Workspace gateway compared
As of 11 October 2026
LiteLLM is an open-source proxy that you run yourself. Myra AI Workspace contains a gateway that Myra operates for you on its own infrastructure, with a chat workspace for employees on top. Both put many model providers behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, each with scoped keys and budgets plus fallbacks. So the decision is less about features than about who operates the gateway and what should happen to personal data before a request reaches a provider.
If your platform team wants to own the proxy, LiteLLM is probably the better fit, and we say so below wherever it applies. Every statement about LiteLLM on this page comes from LiteLLM's own pages and its GitHub repository, listed under Sources.
What LiteLLM does well
Start with the licence. The repository is MIT-licensed except for the enterprise/ directory, which has its own commercial licence. LiteLLM's pricing page is unambiguous that the open-source gateway is free to self-host, in production too. That free tier is not a demo. It already includes virtual keys for users or teams, budgets with rate limits, spend tracking, LLM fallbacks plus request logging.
Provider coverage comes next. The documentation speaks of 100+ providers; the homepage counts 140+ providers and more than 1,800 models. New models usually show up fast, and internal or fine-tuned models can sit behind the same key. There is also a big open-source community that has probably hit your edge case before.
Because you host it, LiteLLM states that no data or telemetry is stored on its servers. Prompts and responses stay in whichever cloud account and region you choose, so EU hosting is a deployment decision you control end to end. Berrie AI Inc., the company behind the project, reports a SOC 2 Type II audit and signs its Docker images with cosign. Its Enterprise licence adds SSO and SCIM, the audit log, secret managers and support SLAs, and the Admin UI now includes a chat page in beta.
LiteLLM and Myra on the points platform teams ask about
| Criterion | LiteLLM (according to LiteLLM) | Myra AI Workspace |
|---|---|---|
| Who operates it | You. LiteLLM ships the image, Helm chart and security patches; running it, including Postgres and Redis, is yours (shared responsibility page) | Myra Security, as a managed service; on-premises deployment on request |
| Licence | MIT core; the enterprise/ directory needs a commercial licence in production |
Commercial service, not open source |
| Where it runs | Wherever you deploy it | Myra infrastructure with a BSI C5 Type 2 attestation; Myra models run on Myra's own EU infrastructure¹ |
| EU-only routing | Follows from your deployment region and the model deployments you configure | A residency floor per gateway or for the organisation refuses non-EU routes with HTTP 403 before the provider call; off by default |
| Providers | 100+ in the docs, 140+ on the homepage | Among others OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini/Vertex AI, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI as well as Mistral, plus Myra-hosted open-weight models¹ |
| Interfaces | Python SDK and proxy, OpenAI format | OpenAI-compatible compat endpoint and provider-native routes, for example for Claude Code |
| Personal data | Presidio guardrail in open source: mask or block; output_parse_pii restores originals in the reply; you run the Presidio containers |
Reversible tokenisation before external models, originals restored in the reply, German checksum recognisers; in every plan |
| Further guardrails | Custom guardrails in open source; Llama Guard, Lakera, OpenAI moderation and secret hiding need Enterprise | Llama Guard 3 hosted locally, prompt-injection classifier and egress guard, plus regex and keyword checks |
| Budgets and limits | Budgets for keys and users as well as teams and agents; tag budgets and soft alerts with Enterprise | Spend caps per token, per gateway and per tenant; sliding-window rate limits per gateway and per token |
| Routing | Load balancing, retries, fallbacks between model groups | Weighted routing rules, fallback chains, load balancing, circuit breaker, exact-match cache |
| Audit log | Enterprise: changes to keys and teams as well as users and models; UI view, S3 export | Admin changes and security events are logged, tamper-evident via a hash chain on request; no audit-log view for customer admins |
| SSO | Enterprise (free up to five users), plus SCIM | OIDC and SAML, plus SCIM |
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type II for Berrie AI | Myra: ISO 27001 on the basis of IT-Grundschutz; infrastructure with BSI C5 Type 2 |
| Chat for employees | Chat page in the Admin UI (beta); history kept in the browser | Chat workspace with projects and agents, plus a privacy indicator |
We left prices out. LiteLLM's open source costs nothing in licences but needs your engineering time, and its Enterprise tier is quoted individually, so a side-by-side number would mislead more than help.
Who patches the proxy on a Friday night
LiteLLM draws the line clearly in its shared-responsibility model. LiteLLM owns the correctness and stability of documented features and ships security patches for the supported versions. You own everything around it: capacity, rollouts, health checks, the databases, and any custom callbacks or guardrails you inject. Security advisories are published on GitHub, and Enterprise customers are told about major security updates seven days before public disclosure. Moving the fix into production remains your job.
For a lot of platform teams that split is exactly what they want. They already run Kubernetes and Postgres, and the proxy belongs inside their own network.
Teams that would rather consume a gateway than run one get the opposite split from Myra. Myra Security, based in Munich and listed by Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) as a qualified DDoS mitigation service provider, runs the gateway and its databases. You receive a tenant, create gateways such as production and staging, put provider keys into the vault (AES-256 at rest) and issue scoped tokens with expiry dates, spend caps and their own rate limits.
Masking personal data before it leaves
Both products can keep personal data from reaching a model provider in clear text. They get there differently.
With LiteLLM you deploy Microsoft Presidio's analyzer and anonymizer containers, register a guardrail and choose the entity types. Set output_parse_pii and the proxy swaps placeholders in the reply back to the original values. German is one of the supported language settings. It works, and sizing those containers and keeping them alive is your call.
In Myra the same idea is built into the gateway and available in every plan. Before a request goes to an external model, personal data is replaced by placeholders, and the answer comes back with the originals restored. Recognisers with checksum validation cover German identifiers such as the tax ID, and IBANs are checked the same way. Legally this stays pseudonymisation; the data does not become anonymous. Requests answered by Myra-hosted models are not masked at all, because they do not leave Myra.
The gateway also serves the people in the chat workspace. Next to the model picker, a coloured indicator says what will happen to the next message. Green (“Local model” or “Local + masking”) means a Myra model answers. Yellow (“Privacy on”) means an external model answers after masking, and red (“Privacy off”) means the text goes out unchanged. Admins can enforce masking for the whole tenant, and a project set to “Local only” offers nothing but Myra models.
Logs, the audit trail and a gap on Myra's side
LiteLLM's Enterprise audit log records changes to keys and teams as well as users and models, regenerated keys included, along with who made them. Admins open it in the UI under Logs, and it can also be exported to an S3 bucket.
Myra logs admin changes and security events, among them failed sign-ins, denied access and a PII masker being switched off; the entries are tamper-evident via a hash chain on request. Your own admins, though, have no audit-log view today, and extracts come from Myra via API. Request traffic is a different matter: the admin UI shows request logs with provider and tokens as well as cost and latency, and security events can stream into your SIEM. If your auditors want to browse admin changes on their own, LiteLLM Enterprise is ahead here.
Which situation fits which product
| Your situation | Better fit |
|---|---|
| The platform team wants an open-source proxy inside its own VPC | LiteLLM |
| You need the longest provider list and new models on day one | LiteLLM |
| No licence budget, but engineers with time to operate it | LiteLLM (open source) |
| Internal audit wants to browse the admin audit log itself | LiteLLM (Enterprise) |
| Nobody on your team should be on call for the gateway | Myra |
| Personal data must be masked before external models, German identifiers included, without running extra services | Myra |
| The same gateway should also serve employees through chat, with models locked per project | Myra |
| Procurement asks for a BSI C5 attestation of the infrastructure operator | Myra |
Myra does not use customer data to train AI models; for external models, the provider's terms apply. If you are still weighing the category itself, start with what an AI gateway does. The Myra documentation covers the compat endpoint, routing rules and guardrails in detail, and there is a parallel comparison for Portkey.
Frequently asked questions
Is LiteLLM free to use in production?
The open-source gateway is, according to LiteLLM's pricing FAQ: you self-host it with no licence fee. Code in the repository's enterprise/ directory is under a commercial licence and may only be used in production with a valid Enterprise licence. Features that need an Enterprise licence key include SSO beyond five users, the audit log and several guardrail integrations.
Is there a hosted LiteLLM in the EU?
LiteLLM's pricing page describes the gateway as self-hosted, and we found no LiteLLM-operated cloud service in its documentation. You pick the region by deploying it there, for example in an EU region of your own cloud account.
Can our apps keep using the OpenAI SDK with Myra?
Yes. Set the base URL to your tenant's compat endpoint, /v1/{tenant}/{gateway}/compat/chat/completions, and use a Myra gateway token as the API key. The model name decides which provider answers. Claude Code talks to the Anthropic-native route instead, configured through ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL.
Can we run Myra's gateway in our own data centre?
Yes, on request. Myra AI Workspace is also available on-premises for organisations with data-residency or air-gapped requirements; Myra handles licensing, hardware requirements and deployment support. The standard route is the managed service. If you want to operate and modify open-source code yourself, LiteLLM is the better match.
Sources
- LiteLLM on GitHub: LICENSE (MIT, with enterprise/ carve-out), retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM on GitHub: enterprise/LICENSE.md (BerriAI Enterprise License), retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM: pricing and pricing FAQ, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM: homepage (providers and models), retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: Enterprise, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: data privacy and security, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: compliance and SOC 2 Type II, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: shared responsibility model, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: providers, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: PII and PHI masking with Presidio, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: audit logs, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: budgets and rate limits, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: fallbacks, retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM documentation: Chat UI (beta), retrieved 11 October 2026
- LiteLLM Trust Center, retrieved 11 October 2026
- Myra AI Workspace documentation, retrieved 11 October 2026