Portkey open-sources AI gateway as LiteLLM faces supply chain attack

On March 24, 2026, the LLM infrastructure landscape saw two significant events: Portkey open-sourced its AI gateway, including governance and cost controls, while LiteLLM disclosed a supply chain attack that compromised two of its packages on the Python Package Index for a brief period. These incidents highlight the critical decision teams face regarding trust in managing traffic between applications and LLM providers. The choice between using marketplaces, self-hosted proxies, or vendor control planes is becoming increasingly important due to rapid model releases, the complexity of agentic workloads, and provider-specific rate limits and pricing changes. AI

IMPACT Highlights the growing importance of secure and flexible LLM infrastructure management for application developers.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses the open-sourcing of an AI gateway product and a security incident affecting another LLM proxy tool, rather than a core AI model release or research.

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• Anthropic
• Apache Software License 2.0
• LiteLLM
• MCP Gateway
• Mistral AI
• OpenAI
• OpenRouter
• Portkey
• Python Package Index

• infra
• product

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