Vatan Gateway vs LiteLLM
If you want to operate the gateway yourself, use LiteLLM.
If you want to operate the gateway yourself, use LiteLLM. It is MIT licensed, air-gappable and carries more models than we do. We are the answer when you want the same governance across models AND tools on one bill and would rather somebody else ran it, including inside your own infrastructure.
Use LiteLLM if
You want the source, the MIT licence, or to operate it with nobody else involved. We do not sell any of those. **We will deploy and run our planes inside your infrastructure for Enterprise**, which covers a residency or egress requirement, but that is us operating it in your account rather than you operating it.
| Vatan | LiteLLM | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | Closed, hosted | MIT, open source |
| You operate it yourself | no | Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, fully air-gapped |
| Runs in your infrastructure Different things. Theirs is self-hosting. Ours is a managed deployment in your account, negotiated per contract and not yet a shipped product. | Enterprise: we deploy and operate it in your infrastructure | Yes, you run it |
| Models Ours arrive through an aggregator rather than integrations we wrote, which the deck says out loud. | 399 models, through an aggregator | 140+ providers, 1,892 models |
| SCIM provisioning | no | Enterprise tier |
| Audit log of admin actions | no | Enterprise tier |
| Tool servers, governed Both reach MCP servers. The difference is who may reach which one and what happens when a tool changes. | Approval, per-person grants, credential custody | MCP supported |
| A changed tool is held | A tool whose description changes is held until re-approved | no |
| One key across models and tools | One key for models and tools, one bill | Separate concerns |
| Billing currency | GBP, with the FX rate stamped on every request | You run it, you pay providers |
| Operated for you | Yes, including inside your own account | You operate it |
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