LiteLLM vs OpenRouter: I Used Both. Here's Where Each One Actually Broke.

TL;DR LiteLLM and OpenRouter are not competing products - LiteLLM is a self-hosted open-source proxy you run yourself, OpenRouter is a managed cloud aggregator. The comparison only makes sense if you understand which problem you're actually trying to solve LiteLLM's ceiling: SSO and team-level budge