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Universal LLM API client for Elixir. Access 143+ LLM providers through a single interface with native BEAM concurrency, OTP integration, and idiomatic Elixir API.

What This Package Provides

• One provider surface — chat, streaming, embeddings, images, audio, search, OCR, tools, and structured output across the provider registry.
• Provider/model routing — call models with the provider/model convention and keep provider-specific request code out of application paths.
• Production controls — retries, fallback, rate limits, cache layers, budgets, health checks, OpenTelemetry spans, and redacted secrets.
• Same core as every binding — Rust, Python, Node.js, Go, Java, PHP, Ruby, .NET, Elixir, WASM, Kotlin Android, Swift, Dart, Zig, and C FFI use the same Rust implementation.
• BEAM package — Rustler NIF binding for OTP services.

Installation

Package Installation

Add to your mix.exs dependencies:

def deps do
  [
    {:liter_llm, "~> 1.4.1"}
  ]
end

Then run:

mix deps.get

System Requirements

• Elixir 1.14+ and Erlang/OTP 25+ required
• API keys via environment variables (e.g. OPENAI_API_KEY, ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)

Quick Start

Basic Chat

Send a message to any provider using the provider/model prefix:

{:ok, client} = LiterLlm.create_client(System.get_env("OPENAI_API_KEY"))

request =
  Jason.encode!(%{
    model: "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
    messages: [%{role: "user", content: "Hello!"}]
  })

{:ok, result} = LiterLlm.defaultclient_chat_async(client, request)
IO.puts(Enum.at(result.choices, 0).message.content)

Common Use Cases

Streaming Responses

Stream tokens in real time:

{:ok, client} = LiterLlm.create_client(System.get_env("OPENAI_API_KEY"))

request =
  Jason.encode!(%{
    model: "openai/gpt-4o-mini",
    messages: [%{role: "user", content: "Count from 1 to 5."}],
    stream: true
  })

{:ok, stream} = LiterLlm.defaultclient_chat_stream(client, request)

Enum.each(stream, fn chunk ->
  content = get_in(chunk, [:choices, Access.at(0), :delta, :content])
  if content, do: IO.write(content)
end)

IO.puts("")

Next Steps

• Provider Registry - Full list of supported providers
• GitHub Repository - Source, issues, and discussions

Features

Supported Providers (143+)

Route to any provider using the provider/model prefix convention:

Complete Provider List

Key Capabilities

• Provider Routing -- Single client for 143+ LLM providers via provider/model prefix
• Local LLMs — Connect to locally-hosted models via Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp, and other local inference servers
• Unified API -- Consistent chat, chat_stream, embeddings, list_models interface
• Streaming -- Real-time token streaming via chat_stream
• Tool Calling -- Function calling and tool use across all supporting providers
• Type Safe -- Schema-driven types compiled from JSON schemas
• Secure -- API keys never logged or serialized, managed via environment variables
• Observability -- Built-in OpenTelemetry with GenAI semantic conventions
• Error Handling -- Structured errors with provider context and retry hints

Performance

Built on a compiled Rust core for speed and safety:

• Provider resolution at client construction -- zero per-request overhead
• Configurable timeouts and connection pooling
• Zero-copy streaming with SSE and AWS EventStream support
• API keys wrapped in secure memory, zeroed on drop

Provider Routing

Route to 143+ providers using the provider/model prefix convention:

openai/gpt-4o
anthropic/claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022
groq/llama-3.1-70b-versatile
mistral/mistral-large-latest

See the provider registry for the full list.

Proxy Server

liter-llm also ships as an OpenAI-compatible proxy server with Docker support:

docker run -p 4000:4000 -e LITER_LLM_MASTER_KEY=sk-your-key ghcr.io/kreuzberg-dev/liter-llm

See the proxy server documentation for configuration, CLI usage, and MCP integration.

Documentation

• Documentation -- Full docs and API reference
• GitHub Repository -- Source, issues, and discussions
• Provider Registry -- 143 supported providers

Part of Kreuzberg.dev

• Kreuzberg — document intelligence: text, tables, metadata from 90+ formats with optional OCR.
• Kreuzberg Cloud — managed extraction API with SDKs, dashboards, and observability.
• kreuzcrawl — web crawling and scraping with HTML→Markdown and headless-Chrome fallback.
• html-to-markdown — fast, lossless HTML→Markdown engine.
• tree-sitter-language-pack — tree-sitter grammars and code-intelligence primitives.
• alef — the polyglot binding generator that produces this README and all per-language bindings.
• Discord — community, roadmap, announcements.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Join our Discord community for questions and discussion.

License

MIT -- see LICENSE for details.