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LiteLLMvsLLM Guard⚠ Stale

Universal LLM proxy — 100+ models, one API versus OSS guardrails toolkit by Protect AI

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Choose LiteLLM when…

  • •You want a unified API across 100+ LLM providers
  • •You're switching between providers or running A/B tests
  • •You need fallbacks and load balancing across models

Choose LLM Guard when…

  • •You need OSS, self-hosted guardrails you can audit
  • •You want a pluggable validator chain over your own LLM calls
  • •You cannot send prompts to a managed third-party guardrails service

Side-by-side comparison

Field
LiteLLM
LLM Guard
Category
LLM Infrastructure
AI Guardrails
Type
Open Source
Open Source
Free Tier
✓ Yes
✓ Yes
Pricing Plans
Enterprise: Custom
OSS: Free
GitHub Stars
⭐ 16,000
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Health
●90 — Active
●45 — Slowing

LiteLLM

OSS proxy that normalizes 100+ LLMs to the OpenAI format. Add routing, fallbacks, caching, and cost tracking in one layer.

Website ↗GitHub ↗

LLM Guard

MIT-licensed Python toolkit for LLM input/output filtering — prompt-injection detection, PII redaction, toxicity, anonymisation, bias, and more. Top OSS choice for self-hosted runtime guardrails in 2026.

Website ↗GitHub ↗

Shared Connections1 tools both integrate with

Guardrails AI

Only LiteLLM (36)

ContinueAiderClaude CodeOpenHandsPlandexCrewAILangGraphSemantic KernelLangChainAutoGen

Only LLM Guard (2)

Lakera GuardLiteLLM

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