EvalGuard vs LiteLLM.
The open-source LLM gateway — routing & cost, not eval or securityLiteLLM is the most widely-adopted open-source LLM gateway: a unified, OpenAI-compatible API across 100+ providers with routing, load-balancing, fallbacks, caching, spend tracking, virtual keys and rate limits, plus a broad guardrail layer of its own. It does not ship an evaluation scorer library (its Evals API is a passthrough to OpenAI's), a red-team/attack-generation library, a prompt IDE, or compliance-control tooling.
across the 10-row feature matrix · see “where LiteLLMleads” below
Competitor data (GitHub stars, downloads, feature counts, funding / acquisition status) verified as of 2026-08-09. EvalGuard's own counts are sourced live from the drift-checked registry.
Coverage at a glance
EvalGuard vs LiteLLM, by the numbers
Where both platforms publish a number, here's the gap. Our values come straight from the drift-checked registry; LiteLLM's are quoted as published.
| Feature | EvalGuard | LiteLLM |
|---|---|---|
| LLM Gateway | Yes (routing, caching, fallbacks) | Yes — the OSS standard |
| LLM Providers | 90+ | 100+ |
| Cost & Budgets | Yes | Yes (spend tracking, virtual keys) |
| Eval Scorers | 200+ built-in | None built in (Evals API proxies OpenAI) |
| Red Team Testing | 300+ plugins + 100+ strategies | No |
| LLM Firewall / Guardrails | 5-layer Visual Builder, native | 51 guardrail integrations + own content filter |
| Agent Tracing | OpenTelemetry | OpenTelemetry (OTLP exporter) |
| Compliance Frameworks | 50 | No |
| Prompt IDE | Yes | No |
| Open Source | Apache 2.0 (SDKs + CLI) | MIT core; enterprise/ under BerriAI EL |
Why choose EvalGuard over LiteLLM
- EvalGuard adds evaluation, red teaming and compliance evidence on top of a gateway — LiteLLM is a gateway/proxy with a guardrail layer
- 200+ built-in eval scorers and 300+ red-team plugins — LiteLLM's Evals API forwards to OpenAI's and it has no attack-generation library
- Prompt IDE and SOC 2 evidence tooling — LiteLLM has neither
- EvalGuard includes its own gateway, so it also covers LiteLLM's core routing/cost use case
Where LiteLLM leads
- LiteLLM is the most widely-adopted open-source LLM gateway (52K+ GitHub stars as published on litellm.ai, YC-backed), with a large, active community
- LiteLLM supports 100+ providers with mature routing, load-balancing, fallbacks and caching
- LiteLLM ships 51 guardrail integrations plus its own content filter — if you already run Aporia, Lakera, Presidio or Bedrock Guardrails, chaining them through LiteLLM is a shorter path than replacing them
- LiteLLM is lightweight and free at the MIT core, and ideal if you only need a unified proxy
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