# LiteLLM vs MLflow

| Attribute | LiteLLM | MLflow |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 81 (36% (low)) | 76.2 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 5,089 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 27,687 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 9,993,245 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"on_prem":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | An open-source AI gateway that provides a centralized control point for managing multiple large language models from different providers. It offers virtual key management, spend tracking, budget controls, and intelligent request routing without charging per token. | A comprehensive, open-source platform that provides experiment tracking, model registry, LLM tracing, prompt management, and deployment capabilities across the complete machine learning and AI lifecycle |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open-source-self-host","rate_limiting":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","routing_strategy":"cost-based","architecture_model":"open_source_proxy","automatic_failover":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"guardrails_moderation":"built-in","openai_compatible_api":true,"virtual_key_management":true,"request_cost_observability":true,"bring_your_own_keys_byok_routing":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"custom_rate_limiting_by_user_or_tenant_id":true,"universal_api_key_for_100_plus_llm_providers":true,"auto_fallback_routing_on_rate_limit_or_downtime":true,"organization_wide_cost_tracking_and_chargebacks":true}` | `{"role":"platform","evaluation":true,"open_source":true,"managed_cloud":true,"model_serving":true,"pricing_model":"free_open_source","rate_limiting":true,"self_hostable":true,"multi_provider":true,"vpc_deployment":true,"otel_compatible":true,"deployment_model":"self-hosted","llm_observability":true,"prompt_management":true,"streaming_support":true,"architecture_model":"open_source_proxy","framework_agnostic":true,"experiment_tracking":true,"budget_spend_controls":true,"guardrails_moderation":"built-in","openai_compatible_api":true,"request_cost_observability":true,"mit_or_apache_permissive_oss_license":true,"organization_wide_cost_tracking_and_chargebacks":true}` |
| integrations.count | 140 | 15 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"AWS Bedrock"},{"name":"Cloudflare"},{"name":"Google VertexAI"},{"name":"Meta Llama"},{"name":"Mistral AI"},{"name":"NLP Cloud"},{"name":"OVHCloud"},{"name":"vLLM"},{"name":"Nvidia NIM"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Discord"},{"name":"Microsoft Teams"},{"name":"PagerDuty"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"AWS Secrets Manager"},{"name":"Google Cloud Secret Manager"},{"name":"MCP servers"},{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"Bedrock"},{"name":"VertexAI"},{"name":"Langfuse"},{"name":"Langsmith"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Email"},{"name":"Webhook"},{"name":"S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Data Lake"},{"name":"GCP Secret Manager"}]` | `[{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"AWS S3"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Azure Storage"},{"name":"AzureML"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"Pydantic AI"},{"name":"Anthropic Claude"},{"name":"OpenAI"},{"name":"Google Gemini"},{"name":"SAP AI Core"},{"name":"JFrog"},{"name":"Aliyun"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"MSSQL"},{"name":"Claude Code"},{"name":"OpenAI Codex"},{"name":"Gemini"},{"name":"Anthropic"},{"name":"Ollama"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"Qwen Code"},{"name":"LiteLLM"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry/OTLP"},{"name":"OpenAI-compatible endpoints"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | Apache-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Open Source","summary":"Free forever, self-hosted","features":["100+ LLM providers","Virtual keys, users & teams","Spend tracking","Prometheus metrics","Logging and alerting","Admin UI","Guardrails","Load balancing"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"MIT-licensed, self-hosted gateway","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"providers":"100+","deployment":"self-hosted"}},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Priced annually based on gateway request capacity and deployment architecture","features":["Everything in Open Source, plus:","SSO + SCIM provisioning","OIDC / JWT authentication","Audit logs on every request","Secret manager integration","Key rotation","Organization & team administration","Multi-region control plane","24/7 support & SLAs","Dedicated support & onboarding","Volume discount tiers","Air-gapped deployment available"],"commitment":"annual","description":"Production deployment with governance, security, and professional support","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"deployment":"self-hosted or air-gapped"}}],"summary":"Free open-source tier. Enterprise pricing based on annual request volume, not per-token.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.litellm.ai/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-19T13:43:01.911Z","freeTrialDays":30,"billingPeriods":["year"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://mlflow.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:35:48.733Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | low | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | - | 10 |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/model-catalog/latest","date":"2026-04-06T05:49:14Z","type":"stable","version":"model-catalog/latest"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.15.2","date":"2026-08-26T08:34:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.15.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.15.1","date":"2026-08-03T11:09:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.15.0","date":"2026-07-31T08:59:13Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.14.0","date":"2026-06-17T08:50:33Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.14.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.13.0","date":"2026-06-01T23:24:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.13.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.13.0rc0","date":"2026-05-22T07:41:13Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.13.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/ts/v0.2.0","date":"2026-05-15T04:09:03Z","type":"stable","version":"ts/v0.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.12.0","date":"2026-05-05T23:48:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.12.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.12.0rc0","date":"2026-04-28T23:25:56Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.12.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/ts/v0.2.0-rc.1","date":"2026-04-13T09:42:04Z","type":"prerelease","version":"ts/v0.2.0-rc.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.11.1","date":"2026-04-08T05:29:25Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.11.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.11.0rc1","date":"2026-04-01T09:14:13Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.11.0rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.11.0rc0","date":"2026-03-16T14:02:42Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.11.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.10.1","date":"2026-03-05T14:47:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.10.0","date":"2026-02-20T16:05:05Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.10.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.10.0rc0","date":"2026-02-12T05:01:00Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.10.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.9.0","date":"2026-01-29T08:49:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.9.0rc0","date":"2026-01-16T04:48:57Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.9.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/mlflow/mlflow/releases/tag/v3.8.1","date":"2025-12-27T02:56:22Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.8.1"}]` |
| security.scorecard | - | 5.5 |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":80,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=mlflow&per_page=100","last_12m":27,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` |

## Capabilities (Llm Gateways)

| Capability | LiteLLM | MLflow |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Openai compatible API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic failover | ✓ | - |
| Routing strategy | Cost based | - |
| Caching | - | - |
| Virtual key management | ✓ | - |
| Budget spend controls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rate limiting | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guardrails moderation | Built in | Built in |
| Request cost observability | ✓ | ✓ |
| Streaming support | - | ✓ |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | Self hosted |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing model | Open source self host | free_open_source |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:15:56.139Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*