Unified LLM API Router Library (llm-api-router)

llm-api-router is a Python library designed to provide a unified, consistent, and type-safe interface for various Large Language Model (LLM) providers (such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, etc.). It strictly adheres to the design style of the OpenAI Python SDK, minimizing the learning curve and supporting zero-code modification when switching underlying model providers.

Core Features

• Unified Interface: Provides a client.chat.completions.create interface similar to the official OpenAI SDK.
• Multi-Vendor Support: Supports OpenAI, OpenRouter, DeepSeek, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Zhipu (ChatGLM), Alibaba (DashScope), and more.
• Zero-Code Switching: Switch underlying model providers simply by modifying the configuration.
• Streaming Support: Unified Server-Sent Events (SSE) streaming response handling, automatically managing streaming differences across vendors.
• Async Support: Native support for asyncio and await calls.
• Type Safety: Comprehensive Type Hints, strictly checked via MyPy.

Architecture Design

This project is designed using the Bridge Pattern:

• Client (Abstraction Layer): The Client and AsyncClient classes are responsible for exposing the unified API interface. Internally, they use ProviderFactory to dynamically load specific vendor implementations.
• ProviderAdapter (Implementation Layer): BaseProvider defines the unified conversion interface. Concrete subclasses (such as OpenAIProvider, AnthropicProvider) are responsible for converting unified requests into specific vendor HTTP requests and normalizing the responses.
• HTTP Engine: Uses httpx under the hood to handle all synchronous and asynchronous HTTP communications.

Installation

The project uses uv for package management.

# Install dependencies
pip install llm-api-router

# Or in a development environment
uv pip install -e .

Quick Start

1. Basic Usage (OpenRouter Example)

from llm_api_router import Client, ProviderConfig

# OpenRouter Configuration
config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="openrouter",
    api_key="sk-or-...",
    default_model="nvidia/nemotron-3-nano-30b-a3b:free"
)

with Client(config) as client:
    response = client.chat.completions.create(
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, please introduce yourself"}]
    )
    print(response.choices[0].message.content)

2. Switching Providers (e.g., DeepSeek, Anthropic)

Simply change the configuration, no code changes required:

# DeepSeek
deepseek_config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="deepseek",
    api_key="sk-...",
    default_model="deepseek-chat"
)

# Anthropic (Claude)
anthropic_config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="anthropic",
    api_key="sk-ant-...",
    default_model="claude-3-5-sonnet-20240620"
)

# Google Gemini
gemini_config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="gemini",
    api_key="AIza...",
    default_model="gemini-1.5-flash"
)

# ZhipuAI (ChatGLM)
zhipu_config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="zhipu",
    api_key="id.secret",  # Zhipu API Key (no manual token generation needed, library handles it)
    default_model="glm-4"
)

# Alibaba (DashScope / Qwen)
aliyun_config = ProviderConfig(
    provider_type="aliyun",
    api_key="sk-...",
    default_model="qwen-max"
)

# Initialize client with DeepSeek configuration
with Client(deepseek_config) as client:
    # ... calling logic remains unchanged
    pass

3. Streaming Response

with Client(gemini_config) as client:
    stream = client.chat.completions.create(
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Write a poem about AI"}],
        stream=True
    )
    
    for chunk in stream:
        content = chunk.choices[0].delta.content
        if content:
            print(content, end="", flush=True)

4. Async Call

import asyncio
from llm_api_router import AsyncClient, ProviderConfig

async def main():
    config = ProviderConfig(
        provider_type="aliyun",
        api_key="sk-...",
        default_model="qwen-turbo"
    )

    async with AsyncClient(config) as client:
        response = await client.chat.completions.create(
            messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Concurrency test"}]
        )
        print(response.choices[0].message.content)

asyncio.run(main())

Supported Model Providers

Development & Testing

This project uses uv to manage the development environment.

1. Install Development Dependencies:

   uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
   

2. Run Tests:

   uv run pytest
   

3. Static Type Checking:

   uv run mypy src/llm_api_router