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LiteLLM - Getting Started

https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm

Call 100+ LLMs using the same Input/Output Format​

Basic usage​

Open In Colab
pip install litellm
from litellm import completion
import os

## set ENV variables
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

response = completion(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo", 
  messages=[{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]
)

Streaming​

Set stream=True in the completion args. 

from litellm import completion
import os

## set ENV variables
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

response = completion(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo", 
  messages=[{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}],
  stream=True,
)

for chunk in response: 
  print(chunk)

Exception handling​

LiteLLM maps exceptions across all supported providers to the OpenAI exceptions. All our exceptions inherit from OpenAI's exception types, so any error-handling you have for that, should work out of the box with LiteLLM. 

from openai.error import OpenAIError
from litellm import completion

os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"] = "bad-key"
try: 
    # some code 
    completion(model="claude-instant-1", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hey, how's it going?"}])
except OpenAIError as e:
    print(e)

Logging Observability - Log LLM Input/Output (Docs)​

LiteLLM exposes pre defined callbacks to send data to Langfuse, LLMonitor, Helicone, Promptlayer, Traceloop, Slack

from litellm import completion

## set env variables for logging tools
os.environ["LANGFUSE_PUBLIC_KEY"] = ""
os.environ["LANGFUSE_SECRET_KEY"] = ""
os.environ["LLMONITOR_APP_ID"] = "your-llmonitor-app-id"

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"]

# set callbacks
litellm.success_callback = ["langfuse", "llmonitor"] # log input/output to langfuse, llmonitor, supabase

#openai call
response = completion(model="gpt-3.5-turbo", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi 👋 - i'm openai"}])

Calculate Costs, Usage, Latency​

Pass the completion response to litellm.completion_cost(completion_response=response) and get the cost

from litellm import completion, completion_cost
import os
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = "your-api-key"

response = completion(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo", 
  messages=[{ "content": "Hello, how are you?","role": "user"}]
)

cost = completion_cost(completion_response=response)
print("Cost for completion call with gpt-3.5-turbo: ", f"${float(cost):.10f}")

Output

Cost for completion call with gpt-3.5-turbo:  $0.0000775000

Track Costs, Usage, Latency for streaming​

We use a custom callback function for this - more info on custom callbacks: https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/observability/custom_callback

  • We define a callback function to calculate cost def track_cost_callback()
  • In def track_cost_callback() we check if the stream is complete - if "complete_streaming_response" in kwargs
  • Use litellm.completion_cost() to calculate cost, once the stream is complete
import litellm

# track_cost_callback 
def track_cost_callback(
    kwargs,                 # kwargs to completion
    completion_response,    # response from completion
    start_time, end_time    # start/end time
):
    try:
        # check if it has collected an entire stream response
        if "complete_streaming_response" in kwargs:
            # for tracking streaming cost we pass the "messages" and the output_text to litellm.completion_cost 
            completion_response=kwargs["complete_streaming_response"]
            input_text = kwargs["messages"]
            output_text = completion_response["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
            response_cost = litellm.completion_cost(
                model = kwargs["model"],
                messages = input_text,
                completion=output_text
            )
            print("streaming response_cost", response_cost)
    except:
        pass
# set callback 
litellm.success_callback = [track_cost_callback] # set custom callback function

# litellm.completion() call
response = completion(
    model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
    messages=[
        {
            "role": "user",
            "content": "Hi 👋 - i'm openai"
        }
    ],
    stream=True
)

More details​