How ORXA: LLM-SDK stacks up
Official SDKs are single-provider. Gateways unify, but add a per-request fee and route your traffic through a third party. ORXA gives you the unification as a library you own — direct to providers, no fee, with per-call cost, observability, RAG, and agent governance built in across all of them.
vs Official SDKs
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI — single-provider, incompatible API shapes. ORXA unifies them and adds what they lack: per-call $-cost + budgets, in-SDK observability, unified RAG, and agent governance.
Read comparison →vs LiteLLM
Coming soonA capable Python library — multi-provider, with cost tracking and guardrails, no proxy required. But Python-only: no JS/TS SDK, so JS users run its proxy (a self-hosted gateway you operate). ORXA is the native TypeScript library.
vs Vercel AI SDK
Coming soonThe closest peer: framework-agnostic, multi-provider, with experimental OpenTelemetry and MCP — a TS library you own, like ORXA. Our edge is the built-ins it lacks: per-call $-cost + budgets, pre-flight estimate, an OpenAI-compatible server, unified RAG, and a zero-dependency core.
vs LangChain.js
Coming soonA framework with chains, runnables, and callbacks. We are a composable library — four optional layers, no abstraction tax.
vs OpenRouter
Coming soonA gateway: a 5–5.5% fee and your traffic through a third party. ORXA gives multi-provider unification as code, direct to providers — no fee, no third party in the path.
Observability without a gateway
Coming soonHelicone and Portkey route your traffic through a proxy. ORXA emits OTel-style data in-process — like Langfuse (async, no proxy), but unified across providers and built into the SDK.