🚅 litellm

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a simple & light package to call OpenAI, Azure, Cohere, Anthropic API Endpoints

litellm manages:

translating inputs to completion and embedding endpoints
guarantees consistent output, text responses will always be available at ['choices'][0]['message']['content']

usage

Read the docs - https://litellm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

quick start

pip install litellm

from litellm import completion

messages = [{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]

# openai call
response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=messages)

# cohere call
response = completion("command-nightly", messages)

# azure openai call
response = completion("chatgpt-test", messages, azure=True)

# hugging face call
response = completion(model="stabilityai/stablecode-completion-alpha-3b-4k", messages=messages, hugging_face=True)

# openrouter call
response = completion("google/palm-2-codechat-bison", messages)

Code Sample: Getting Started Notebook

Stable version

pip install litellm==0.1.345

Streaming Queries

liteLLM supports streaming the model response back, pass stream=True to get a streaming iterator in response.

response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=messages, stream=True)
for chunk in response:
    print(chunk['choices'][0]['delta'])

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why did we build this

Need for simplicity: Our code started to get extremely complicated managing & translating calls between Azure, OpenAI, Cohere

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