SatGate vs LiteLLM
LiteLLM is a strong LLM gateway for model access, routing, fallbacks, budgets, and spend tracking. SatGate is the economic firewall for agent/API activity: budgets, MCP tools, revocation, audit trails, and L402 payments in the request path.
TL;DR
Use LiteLLM when you need one gateway for many LLM providers. Use SatGate when you need to govern autonomous agents before they spend money, call MCP tools, delegate authority, access protected APIs, or pay for resources.
Where SatGate wins
Economic firewall, not just LLM gateway
SatGate governs whether an agent should access, spend, route, delegate, or pay before upstream APIs and tools execute.
Budgets for agent workflows
Control spend by tenant, agent, workflow, delegated sub-agent, route, model, MCP tool, session, day, and request.
Scoped agent authority
Issue expiring, revocable capabilities constrained by route, tool, budget, calls, expiry, and delegation rules.
Charge robot customers
Use L402 Lightning payments when external agents should pay for APIs, tools, datasets, or premium capabilities at request time.
Where LiteLLM wins
Model access and routing
LiteLLM is strong when teams need one OpenAI-compatible interface across many LLM providers, deployments, and models.
LLM spend tracking
LiteLLM tracks model usage and spend across keys, users, teams, organizations, and providers inside the LLM gateway layer.
The clean architecture
SatGate can sit in front of LiteLLM. SatGate decides whether the agent, workflow, budget, route, and capability are allowed; LiteLLM handles provider routing and model access behind that policy boundary.
Feature signal
Hard agent budget enforcement
Budget decisions before expensive agent/API activity executes.
MCP tool cost policy
Prices, limits, risk tiers, and audit evidence per tool call.
L402 robot payments
Request-time Lightning payments for external agent/API access.
100+ model provider gateway
This is LiteLLM territory; SatGate can govern traffic before it reaches that layer.
Routing is useful. Governance is different.
LiteLLM helps developers reach models. SatGate helps platform, finance, and security teams control what autonomous agents can spend, access, delegate, and monetize before the next request leaves the building.