Build a Unified AI Gateway with LiteLLM and Ollama
Dev.to / 6/15/2026
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Key Points
- LiteLLM provides a proxy server that unifies 100+ LLM providers behind a single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint.
- By connecting LiteLLM to Ollama, the setup enables local inference while also gaining features like load balancing, cost tracking, rate limits, and automatic fallback routing.
- The guide outlines prerequisites (Python 3.9+, Ollama running) and estimates setup time at about 20 minutes.
- It shows how to install LiteLLM with the proxy extra, configure model endpoints in a config.yaml (local Ollama models and a cloud OpenAI model), and start the proxy on port 4000.
- Users can then call the unified service using an OpenAI SDK client pointed at the LiteLLM proxy base URL.
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