AI engineering glossary · MLOps, LLMOps cloud

What is LLM gateway?

LLM gateway: A service placed between applications and one or more model providers that offers one consistent API and central features such as authentication, rate limits, logging, cost tracking, caching, retries and fallback to other models.

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LLM gateway: an example

All apps call the company's gateway, which forwards to two providers and records tokens used by each team.

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LLM gateway is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.

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