Duel-Agents vs litellm
litellm is much bigger: 62.3k stars against 734. Over the days we have tracked them Duel-Agents moved -15.9% and litellm +12.8%, so litellm is growing faster right now.
litellm leads on noise control and privacy and model freedom. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin.
Stars and commit dates come from our own daily tracking. The six axes are read off each project's documentation by our review pipeline, so they describe what a project says about itself, not what we measured in its code.
Where they stand today
An IDE-native routing layer that runs prompts across multiple models and picks the cheapest answer that still wins.
- Stars
- 734
- Tracked growth
- -15.9%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 121d ago
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Cost to run
- Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription)
A lightweight, production-ready self-hosted AI gateway that unifies 100+ LLM providers into a single OpenAI-compatible API with virtual keys, spend tracking, guardrails, and load balancing.
- Stars
- 62.3k
- Tracked growth
- +12.8%
- Maturity
- ●●●●●
- Last commit
- 9m ago
- Language
- Python
- License
- NOASSERTION
- Cost to run
- Self-hosted — your API keys (pay providers)
Six axes, head to head
Each axis runs 0 to 5. The label under a score is what that project's own docs claim, not a category average.
| Axis | Duel-Agents | litellm |
|---|---|---|
Context depth How much of your codebase it sees before it answers: the open diff, the diff plus related files, or the whole repository. | ●●●●● Diff/file only | ●●●●● No repo context |
Noise control How it keeps output volume down — severity thresholds, deduplication, incremental runs over new commits only. | ●●●●● No noise controls | ●●●●● Basic guardrails |
Customization How far it bends to your team: custom rules, prompts, style guides, per-path config. | ●●●●● Env/config options | ●●●●● Configurable |
Privacy Whether your code stays on your own infrastructure: fully local, self-hostable, or cloud API only. | ●●●●● Third-party cloud | ●●●●● Self-hostable |
Model freedom Whether you can point it at any provider, or it is wired to one. | ●●●●● Single provider | ●●●●● Bring-your-own-key |
Setup ease What it takes to get a first useful run out of it. | ●●●●● API key + install | ●●●●● Config + API key |
Which one to pick
Pick Duel-Agents if…
Cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Pick litellm if…
Unified multi-provider support — use one OpenAI-compatible API to call 100+ LLMs with a self-hosted gateway, virtual keys, and cost tracking.
- Noise control: Basic guardrails (3/5 against 1/5)
- Privacy: Self-hostable (4/5 against 1/5)
- Model freedom: Bring-your-own-key (5/5 against 1/5)
What people want from each one
2aronS/Duel-Agents
BerriAI/litellm
Questions people ask
Is Duel-Agents better than litellm?
litellm leads on noise control and privacy and model freedom. Duel-Agents does not take any axis by a clear margin. Duel-Agents is worth picking when cost-optimized — pick Duel Agents when you want an IDE-integrated proxy that routes and compares model answers to choose the cheapest winning response.
Which of Duel-Agents and litellm keeps my code private?
Duel-Agents: Third-party cloud (1/5). litellm: Self-hostable (4/5).
What does each one cost to run?
Duel-Agents: Requires a Duel API key (dashboard subscription). litellm: Self-hosted — your API keys (pay providers).
Full profiles: 2aronS/Duel-Agents and BerriAI/litellm. Everything else in Gateways & routing.