LiteLLM vs Defapi vs OpenRouter

Which one fits you in 2026? Traffic, pricing, input → output, tasks and community side by side.

Your tool
LiteLLM
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Competitor 1
DDefapi
Competitor 2
OpenRouter
Competitor 3
Suggested competitors for LiteLLM: Portkey86% FastRouter84% Respan79% EEUrouter79% Vana78% Nexos AI78% Alma by Olivares AI78% Vercel AI Gateway77%
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3 tools · best value per row highlighted
Your tool LiteLLM
litellm.ai
LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway and LLM proxy that puts more than 140 providers and 1,800 models behind one OpenAI-compatible API key.
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Competitor DDefapi
defapi.org
You know how managing multiple AI provider integrations usually means maintaining separate codebases for each vendor
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Competitor OpenRouter
openrouter.ai
Every model, one endpoint
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Traffic estimated monthly website traffic
Monthly visits
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2.4Kvisits/mo
22Mvisits/mo
MoM change
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▼ 42.6%
▲ 14.6%
6-month growth
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-86.2%
+39.6%
Global rank web
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#4,650,820
#2,023
Avg. last 3 months
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4.8K
19.5M
Bounce rate lower is better
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36%
32%
Pages / visit
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1.4
7.7
Visit duration
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7s
6m 13s
Traffic sources
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● Direct 89% · ● Referral 10%
LiteLLMDefapiOpenRouter
05.5M11M16.5M22MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22M1K10K100K1M10M100MDefapi · 11.1KDefapi · 13KDefapi · 12.4KDefapi · 17.7KDefapi · 9.4KDefapi · 6.2KDefapi · 7.6KDefapi · 4.2KDefapi · 2.4KOpenRouter · 7.5MOpenRouter · 8.6MOpenRouter · 8.4MOpenRouter · 11.2MOpenRouter · 15.8MOpenRouter · 17.9MOpenRouter · 16.8MOpenRouter · 17.3MOpenRouter · 19.2MOpenRouter · 22MNov '25DecJan '26FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
Pricing
Model
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Open Source FreeEnterprise Custom
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview $1/$6/per requestClaude Sonnet 4.6 $1.5/$7.5/per requestClaude Opus 4.6 $2.5/$12.5/per requestSora 2 Stable $0.175+/per request+2 more
Free FreeStandard Custom/moBusiness Custom/moEnterprise Custom
Capabilities input → output
Input
Text
AudioTextImages
AudioVideoTextImages
Output
TextData
TextImagesAudio
VideoTextImagesAudio
Skill level
Advanced
Advanced
Advanced
Categories
Development & CodeProductivity & OfficeAI APIAI Developer Tools+1 more
Development & CodeAI API
Development & CodeAI APILarge Language Models (LLMs)
Tasks what each tool can do · 1 shared · core   partial
Tasks covered
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APIs
LLM gateway
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API management
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LLM management
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Large language models
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