All switching guides
Stay if the gateway is the product.
LiteLLM is good at being a proxy. We treat that as a hard fail. The one-sentence test: if the build needs a proxy to work, the spec is wrong.
Stay if this is you. Platform teams who want one gateway, virtual keys, and spend limits across APIs.
Virtual keys
A key that hits a vendor on someone else's behalf is out of scope here.
Consumer ToS
Driving Claude Code as a logged-in official client is a different job than wrapping api.anthropic.com.
If you do switch
- Official headless or PTY of the vendor CLI.
- Quota from local files, not scraped billing pages.
- One human per seat, enforced in the UI.