Question 1

What's the difference between PassingRight and LiteLLM?

Accepted Answer

LiteLLM is a self-hosted proxy you run and operate yourself. PassingRight is a production-ready gateway with a managed hosted option, a dashboard, real-time analytics, and automatic provider routing and fallback — so there's no infrastructure to run unless you want to self-host.

Question 2

Do I have to host it myself like LiteLLM?

Accepted Answer

No. You can use the fully managed gateway, or self-host the AGPLv3 build on your own infrastructure — the choice is yours.

Question 3

Is PassingRight open source?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The core gateway is AGPLv3 licensed and free to self-host forever, just like LiteLLM, while also offering a managed service.

Question 4

How does pricing work compared to LiteLLM?

Accepted Answer

Managed usage is pay-as-you-go with a flat 5% platform fee on credits, or free when you bring your own provider keys; optional full data retention is billed at $0.01 per 1M tokens. Self-hosting the AGPLv3 build is free. LiteLLM's proxy is free to self-host, and its Enterprise tier (SSO, RBAC, audit logs, support) is quoted per deployment rather than per token.

Question 5

What about the March 2026 LiteLLM supply-chain incident?

Accepted Answer

On March 24, 2026 two malicious litellm releases (1.82.7 and 1.82.8) reached PyPI and were pulled after about 40 minutes; they harvested credentials from unpinned pip installs. Pinned Docker deployments were unaffected, and LiteLLM shipped a hardened release pipeline with 1.83.0. The lesson applies to any self-hosted proxy, PassingRight included: pin versions and own the patch cycle, or use a managed gateway where that work is done for you.

Question 6

Does it provide analytics and routing out of the box?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Real-time cost and latency analytics, automatic provider routing and fallback, budgets and spend controls, and prompt caching are built in — no extra setup required.

Question 7

What are the best LiteLLM alternatives?

Accepted Answer

PassingRight is the most complete LiteLLM alternative: open source, self-hostable, and available as a managed cloud with zero markup on your own keys. Other options teams evaluate include OpenRouter (managed, no self-hosting), Bifrost (self-hosted Go proxy), and Portkey (enterprise governance).

Why Choose PassingRight Over LiteLLM?

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Why choose PassingRight?

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Managed infrastructure

Self-hosting option

Auto-scaling

99.9% uptime SLA

Patching & supply-chain upkeep

Real-time cost analytics

Latency analytics

Request-level insights

Model usage dashboard

Cost optimization insights

Team collaboration

Project isolation

Billing integration

Priority support

SSO integration

OpenAI-compatible API

Interactive chat app (PassingRight Chat)

API key management

Request caching

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