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🔑 Virtual Keys, Users

Track Spend, Set budgets and create virtual keys for the proxy

Grant other's temporary access to your proxy, with keys that expire after a set duration.

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Setup​

Requirements:

  • Need a postgres database (e.g. Supabase, Neon, etc)
  • Set DATABASE_URL=postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<dbname> in your env
  • Set a master key, this is your Proxy Admin key - you can use this to create other keys
    • Set on config.yaml set your master key under general_settings:master_key, example below
    • Set env variable set LITELLM_MASTER_KEY (Note: either set this on the config.yaml or in your env whatever is more convenient for you)

(the proxy Dockerfile checks if the DATABASE_URL is set and then intializes the DB connection)

export DATABASE_URL=postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<dbname>

You can then generate temporary keys by hitting the /key/generate endpoint.

See code

Step 1: Save postgres db url

model_list:
  - model_name: gpt-4
    litellm_params:
        model: ollama/llama2
  - model_name: gpt-3.5-turbo
    litellm_params:
        model: ollama/llama2

general_settings: 
  master_key: sk-1234 # [OPTIONAL] if set all calls to proxy will require either this key or a valid generated token
  database_url: "postgresql://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<dbname>"

Step 2: Start litellm

litellm --config /path/to/config.yaml

Step 3: Generate temporary keys

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"models": ["gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4", "claude-2"], "duration": "20m","metadata": {"user": "ishaan@berri.ai"}}'

/key/generate​

Request​

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "models": ["gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4", "claude-2"],
  "duration": "20m",
  "metadata": {"user": "ishaan@berri.ai"},
  "team_id": "core-infra",
  "max_budget": 10,
  "soft_budget": 5,
}'

Request Params:

  • duration: Optional[str] - Specify the length of time the token is valid for. You can set duration as seconds ("30s"), minutes ("30m"), hours ("30h"), days ("30d").
  • key_alias: Optional[str] - User defined key alias
  • team_id: Optional[str] - The team id of the user
  • models: Optional[list] - Model_name's a user is allowed to call. (if empty, key is allowed to call all models)
  • aliases: Optional[dict] - Any alias mappings, on top of anything in the config.yaml model list. - https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/virtual_keys#managing-auth---upgradedowngrade-models
  • config: Optional[dict] - any key-specific configs, overrides config in config.yaml
  • spend: Optional[int] - Amount spent by key. Default is 0. Will be updated by proxy whenever key is used. https://docs.litellm.ai/docs/proxy/virtual_keys#managing-auth---tracking-spend
  • max_budget: Optional[float] - Specify max budget for a given key.
  • soft_budget: Optional[float] - Specify soft limit budget for a given key. Get Alerts when key hits its soft budget
  • model_max_budget: Optional[dict[str, float]] - Specify max budget for each model, model_max_budget={"gpt4": 0.5, "gpt-5": 0.01}
  • max_parallel_requests: Optional[int] - Rate limit a user based on the number of parallel requests. Raises 429 error, if user's parallel requests > x.
  • metadata: Optional[dict] - Metadata for key, store information for key. Example metadata = {"team": "core-infra", "app": "app2", "email": "ishaan@berri.ai" }

Response​

{
    "key": "sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA", # Bearer token
    "expires": "2023-11-19T01:38:25.834000+00:00" # datetime object
    "key_name": "sk-...7sFA" # abbreviated key string, ONLY stored in db if `allow_user_auth: true` set - [see](./ui.md)
    ...
}

Upgrade/Downgrade Models​

If a user is expected to use a given model (i.e. gpt3-5), and you want to:

  • try to upgrade the request (i.e. GPT4)
  • or downgrade it (i.e. Mistral)
  • OR rotate the API KEY (i.e. open AI)
  • OR access the same model through different end points (i.e. openAI vs openrouter vs Azure)

Here's how you can do that:

Step 1: Create a model group in config.yaml (save model name, api keys, etc.)

model_list:
  - model_name: my-free-tier
    litellm_params:
        model: huggingface/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta
        api_base: http://0.0.0.0:8001
  - model_name: my-free-tier
    litellm_params:
        model: huggingface/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta
        api_base: http://0.0.0.0:8002
  - model_name: my-free-tier
    litellm_params:
        model: huggingface/HuggingFaceH4/zephyr-7b-beta
        api_base: http://0.0.0.0:8003
    - model_name: my-paid-tier
    litellm_params:
        model: gpt-4
        api_key: my-api-key

Step 2: Generate a user key - enabling them access to specific models, custom model aliases, etc.

curl -X POST "https://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
    "models": ["my-free-tier"], 
    "aliases": {"gpt-3.5-turbo": "my-free-tier"}, 
    "duration": "30min"
}'
  • How to upgrade / downgrade request? Change the alias mapping
  • How are routing between diff keys/api bases done? litellm handles this by shuffling between different models in the model list with the same model_name. See Code

Grant Access to new model​

Use model access groups to give users access to select models, and add new ones to it over time (e.g. mistral, llama-2, etc.)

Step 1. Assign model, access group in config.yaml

model_list:
  - model_name: text-embedding-ada-002
    litellm_params:
      model: azure/azure-embedding-model
      api_base: "os.environ/AZURE_API_BASE"
      api_key: "os.environ/AZURE_API_KEY"
      api_version: "2023-07-01-preview"
    model_info:
      access_groups: ["beta-models"] # 👈 Model Access Group

Step 2. Create key with access group

curl --location 'http://localhost:4000/key/generate' \
-H 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"models": ["beta-models"], # 👈 Model Access Group
            "max_budget": 0,}'

/key/info​

Request​

curl -X GET "http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/info?key=sk-02Wr4IAlN3NvPXvL5JVvDA" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234"

Request Params:

  • key: str - The key you want the info for

Response​

token is the hashed key (The DB stores the hashed key for security)

{
  "key": "sk-02Wr4IAlN3NvPXvL5JVvDA",
  "info": {
    "token": "80321a12d03412c527f2bd9db5fabd746abead2e1d50b435a534432fbaca9ef5",
    "spend": 0.0,
    "expires": "2024-01-18T23:52:09.125000+00:00",
    "models": ["azure-gpt-3.5", "azure-embedding-model"],
    "aliases": {},
    "config": {},
    "user_id": "ishaan2@berri.ai",
    "team_id": "None",
    "max_parallel_requests": null,
    "metadata": {}
  }
}


/key/update​

Request​

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/update' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "key": "sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA",
  "models": ["gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4", "claude-2"],
  "metadata": {"user": "ishaan@berri.ai"},
  "team_id": "core-infra"
}'

Request Params:

  • key: str - The key that needs to be updated.

  • models: list or null (optional) - Specify the models a token has access to. If null, then the token has access to all models on the server.

  • metadata: dict or null (optional) - Pass metadata for the updated token. If null, defaults to an empty dictionary.

  • team_id: str or null (optional) - Specify the team_id for the associated key.

Response​

{
  "key": "sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA",
  "models": ["gpt-3.5-turbo", "gpt-4", "claude-2"],
  "metadata": {
    "user": "ishaan@berri.ai"
  }
}

/key/delete​

Request​

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/delete' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "keys": ["sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA"]
}'

Request Params:

  • keys: List[str] - List of keys to delete

Response​

{
  "deleted_keys": ["sk-kdEXbIqZRwEeEiHwdg7sFA"]
}

/user/new​

Request​

All key/generate params supported for creating a user

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/user/new' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "user_id": "ishaan1",
  "user_email": "ishaan@litellm.ai",
  "user_role": "admin",
  "team_id": "cto-team",
  "max_budget": 20,
  "budget_duration": "1h"

}'

Request Params:

  • user_id: str (optional - defaults to uuid) - The unique identifier for the user.
  • user_email: str (optional - defaults to "") - The email address associated with the user.
  • user_role: str (optional - defaults to "app_user") - The role assigned to the user. Can be "admin", "app_owner", "app_user"

Possible user_role values

"admin" - Maintaining the proxy and owning the overall budget
"app_owner" - employees maintaining the apps, each owner may own more than one app
"app_user" - users who know nothing about the proxy. These users get created when you pass `user` to /chat/completions
  • team_id: str (optional - defaults to "") - The identifier for the team to which the user belongs.
  • max_budget: float (optional - defaults to null) - The maximum budget allocated for the user. No budget checks done if max_budget==null
  • budget_duration: str (optional - defaults to null) - The duration for which the budget is valid, e.g., "1h", "1d"

Response​

A key will be generated for the new user created

{
  "models": [],
  "spend": 0.0,
  "max_budget": null,
  "user_id": "ishaan1",
  "team_id": null,
  "max_parallel_requests": null,
  "metadata": {},
  "tpm_limit": null,
  "rpm_limit": null,
  "budget_duration": null,
  "allowed_cache_controls": [],
  "key_alias": null,
  "duration": null,
  "aliases": {},
  "config": {},
  "key": "sk-JflB33ucTqc2NYvNAgiBCA",
  "key_name": null,
  "expires": null
}

/user/info​

Request​

View all Users​

If you're trying to view all users, we recommend using pagination with the following args

  • view_all=true
  • page=0 Optional(int) min = 0, default=0
  • page_size=25 Optional(int) min = 1, default = 25
curl -X GET "http://0.0.0.0:4000/user/info?view_all=true&page=0&page_size=25" -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234"

View specific user_id​

curl -X GET "http://0.0.0.0:4000/user/info?user_id=228da235-eef0-4c30-bf53-5d6ac0d278c2" -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-1234"

Response​

View user spend, budget, models, keys and teams 

{
  "user_id": "228da235-eef0-4c30-bf53-5d6ac0d278c2",
  "user_info": {
    "user_id": "228da235-eef0-4c30-bf53-5d6ac0d278c2",
    "team_id": null,
    "teams": [],
    "user_role": "app_user",
    "max_budget": null,
    "spend": 200000.0,
    "user_email": null,
    "models": [],
    "max_parallel_requests": null,
    "tpm_limit": null,
    "rpm_limit": null,
    "budget_duration": null,
    "budget_reset_at": null,
    "allowed_cache_controls": [],
    "model_spend": {
      "chatgpt-v-2": 200000
    },
    "model_max_budget": {}
  },
  "keys": [
    {
      "token": "16c337f9df00a0e6472627e39a2ed02e67bc9a8a760c983c4e9b8cad7954f3c0",
      "key_name": null,
      "key_alias": null,
      "spend": 200000.0,
      "expires": null,
      "models": [],
      "aliases": {},
      "config": {},
      "user_id": "228da235-eef0-4c30-bf53-5d6ac0d278c2",
      "team_id": null,
      "permissions": {},
      "max_parallel_requests": null,
      "metadata": {},
      "tpm_limit": null,
      "rpm_limit": null,
      "max_budget": null,
      "budget_duration": null,
      "budget_reset_at": null,
      "allowed_cache_controls": [],
      "model_spend": {
        "chatgpt-v-2": 200000
      },
      "model_max_budget": {}
    }
  ],
  "teams": []
}

Advanced​

Upperbound /key/generate params​

Use this, if you need to control the upperbound that users can use for max_budget, budget_duration or any key/generate param per key.

Set litellm_settings:upperbound_key_generate_params:

litellm_settings:
  upperbound_key_generate_params:
    max_budget: 100 # upperbound of $100, for all /key/generate requests
    duration: "30d" # upperbound of 30 days for all /key/generate requests

Expected Behavior

  • Send a /key/generate request with max_budget=200
  • Key will be created with max_budget=100 since 100 is the upper bound

Default /key/generate params​

Use this, if you need to control the default max_budget or any key/generate param per key.

When a /key/generate request does not specify max_budget, it will use the max_budget specified in default_key_generate_params

Set litellm_settings:default_key_generate_params:

litellm_settings:
  default_key_generate_params:
    max_budget: 1.5000
    models: ["azure-gpt-3.5"]
    duration:     # blank means `null`
    metadata: {"setting":"default"}
    team_id: "core-infra"

Restrict models by team_id​

litellm-dev can only access azure-gpt-3.5

litellm_settings:
  default_team_settings:
    - team_id: litellm-dev
      models: ["azure-gpt-3.5"]

Create key with team_id="litellm-dev"​

curl --location 'http://localhost:4000/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer sk-1234' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"team_id": "litellm-dev"}'

Use Key to call invalid model - Fails​

curl --location 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/chat/completions' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
    --header 'Authorization: Bearer sk-qo992IjKOC2CHKZGRoJIGA' \
    --data '{
        "model": "BEDROCK_GROUP",
        "messages": [
            {
                "role": "user",
                "content": "hi"
            }
        ]
    }'
{"error":{"message":"Invalid model for team litellm-dev: BEDROCK_GROUP.  Valid models for team are: ['azure-gpt-3.5']\n\n\nTraceback (most recent call last):\n  File \"/Users/ishaanjaffer/Github/litellm/litellm/proxy/proxy_server.py\", line 2298, in chat_completion\n    _is_valid_team_configs(\n  File \"/Users/ishaanjaffer/Github/litellm/litellm/proxy/utils.py\", line 1296, in _is_valid_team_configs\n    raise Exception(\nException: Invalid model for team litellm-dev: BEDROCK_GROUP.  Valid models for team are: ['azure-gpt-3.5']\n\n","type":"None","param":"None","code":500}}%

Set Budgets - Per Key​

Set max_budget in (USD $) param in the key/generate request. By default the max_budget is set to null and is not checked for keys

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{
  "metadata": {"user": "ishaan@berri.ai"},
  "team_id": "core-infra",
  "max_budget": 10,
}'

Expected Behaviour​

  • Costs Per key get auto-populated in LiteLLM_VerificationToken Table
  • After the key crosses it's max_budget, requests fail

Example Request to /chat/completions when key has crossed budget

curl --location 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/chat/completions' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer sk-ULl_IKCVFy2EZRzQB16RUA' \
  --data ' {
  "model": "azure-gpt-3.5",
  "user": "e09b4da8-ed80-4b05-ac93-e16d9eb56fca",
  "messages": [
      {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "respond in 50 lines"
      }
  ],
}'

Expected Response from /chat/completions when key has crossed budget

{
  "detail":"Authentication Error, ExceededTokenBudget: Current spend for token: 7.2e-05; Max Budget for Token: 2e-07"
}

Set Budgets - Per User​

LiteLLM exposes a /user/new endpoint to create budgets for users, that persist across multiple keys.

This is documented in the swagger (live on your server root endpoint - e.g. http://0.0.0.0:4000/). Here's an example request. 

curl --location 'http://localhost:4000/user/new' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"models": ["azure-models"], "max_budget": 0, "user_id": "krrish3@berri.ai"}'

The request is a normal /key/generate request body + a max_budget field.

Sample Response

{
    "key": "sk-YF2OxDbrgd1y2KgwxmEA2w",
    "expires": "2023-12-22T09:53:13.861000Z",
    "user_id": "krrish3@berri.ai",
    "max_budget": 0.0
}

Tracking Spend​

You can get spend for a key by using the /key/info endpoint. 

curl 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/key/info?key=<user-key>' \
     -X GET \
     -H 'Authorization: Bearer <your-master-key>'

This is automatically updated (in USD) when calls are made to /completions, /chat/completions, /embeddings using litellm's completion_cost() function. See Code.

Sample response

{
    "key": "sk-tXL0wt5-lOOVK9sfY2UacA",
    "info": {
        "token": "sk-tXL0wt5-lOOVK9sfY2UacA",
        "spend": 0.0001065,
        "expires": "2023-11-24T23:19:11.131000Z",
        "models": [
            "gpt-3.5-turbo",
            "gpt-4",
            "claude-2"
        ],
        "aliases": {
            "mistral-7b": "gpt-3.5-turbo"
        },
        "config": {}
    }
}

Custom Auth​

You can now override the default api key auth.

Here's how:

1. Create a custom auth file.​

Make sure the response type follows the UserAPIKeyAuth pydantic object. This is used by for logging usage specific to that user key.

from litellm.proxy._types import UserAPIKeyAuth

async def user_api_key_auth(request: Request, api_key: str) -> UserAPIKeyAuth: 
    try: 
        modified_master_key = "sk-my-master-key"
        if api_key == modified_master_key:
            return UserAPIKeyAuth(api_key=api_key)
        raise Exception
    except: 
        raise Exception

2. Pass the filepath (relative to the config.yaml)​

Pass the filepath to the config.yaml

e.g. if they're both in the same dir - ./config.yaml and ./custom_auth.py, this is what it looks like:

model_list: 
  - model_name: "openai-model"
    litellm_params: 
      model: "gpt-3.5-turbo"

litellm_settings:
  drop_params: True
  set_verbose: True

general_settings:
  custom_auth: custom_auth.user_api_key_auth

Implementation Code

3. Start the proxy​

$ litellm --config /path/to/config.yaml

Custom /key/generate​

If you need to add custom logic before generating a Proxy API Key (Example Validating team_id)

1. Write a custom custom_generate_key_fn​

The input to the custom_generate_key_fn function is a single parameter: data (Type: GenerateKeyRequest)

The output of your custom_generate_key_fn should be a dictionary with the following structure

{
    "decision": False,
    "message": "This violates LiteLLM Proxy Rules. No team id provided.",
}

  • decision (Type: bool): A boolean value indicating whether the key generation is allowed (True) or not (False).

  • message (Type: str, Optional): An optional message providing additional information about the decision. This field is included when the decision is False.

async def custom_generate_key_fn(data: GenerateKeyRequest)-> dict:
        """
        Asynchronous function for generating a key based on the input data.

        Args:
            data (GenerateKeyRequest): The input data for key generation.

        Returns:
            dict: A dictionary containing the decision and an optional message.
            {
                "decision": False,
                "message": "This violates LiteLLM Proxy Rules. No team id provided.",
            }
        """
        
        # decide if a key should be generated or not
        print("using custom auth function!")
        data_json = data.json()  # type: ignore

        # Unpacking variables
        team_id = data_json.get("team_id")
        duration = data_json.get("duration")
        models = data_json.get("models")
        aliases = data_json.get("aliases")
        config = data_json.get("config")
        spend = data_json.get("spend")
        user_id = data_json.get("user_id")
        max_parallel_requests = data_json.get("max_parallel_requests")
        metadata = data_json.get("metadata")
        tpm_limit = data_json.get("tpm_limit")
        rpm_limit = data_json.get("rpm_limit")

        if team_id is not None and team_id == "litellm-core-infra@gmail.com":
            # only team_id="litellm-core-infra@gmail.com" can make keys
            return {
                "decision": True,
            }
        else:
            print("Failed custom auth")
            return {
                "decision": False,
                "message": "This violates LiteLLM Proxy Rules. No team id provided.",
            }

2. Pass the filepath (relative to the config.yaml)​

Pass the filepath to the config.yaml

e.g. if they're both in the same dir - ./config.yaml and ./custom_auth.py, this is what it looks like:

model_list: 
  - model_name: "openai-model"
    litellm_params: 
      model: "gpt-3.5-turbo"

litellm_settings:
  drop_params: True
  set_verbose: True

general_settings:
  custom_key_generate: custom_auth.custom_generate_key_fn