ulab-uiuc/LLMRouter
LLMRouter: An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing
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Where it stands
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The project lists 17 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Implements an intelligent routing system that dynamically selects the optimal large language model (LLM) for each query based on task complexity, cost, and performance.
- Offers over 16 diverse routing models and a unified CLI with data generation, training, inference, and interactive chat, enabling flexible, cost-aware, and performance-optimized LLM usage.
- Use for deploying cost-efficient LLM inference pipelines that automatically route queries to the best model for improved response quality and reduced expenses.
- Use for researchers developing and testing new LLM routing strategies or personalized routing models using the plugin system and extensive benchmark datasets.
- Use for building interactive chat applications with real-time LLM routing and multimodal input support via the Gradio-based UI and OpenClaw integration.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
LLMRouter requires API keys to make LLM API calls for inference, chat, and data generation. Set the
API_KEYSenvironment variable using one of the following formats:💡 Free NVIDIA API Keys: The NVIDIA endpoints currently used in LLMRouter have freely available API keys. To get started, visit https://build.nvidia.com/ to create an account, then you can generate your API keys at no cost.
Daily snapshots
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Forks
316+87
Open issues
32-3
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| ulab-uiuc/LLMRouter | 3.1K | — | 16 | — |
| Category median | 113.6K | +5.5K | 60 | — |
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