Akto Partners with LiteLLM to Bring AI Gateway Security to AI Agents

We're excited to announce that Akto now natively partners with LiteLLM, bringing together the most widely adopted open-source AI gateway with a purpose-built agentic AI security platform - Akto.

Security is no longer optional once AI begins managing client data or initiating commercial operations. Teams frequently encounter queries such as:

• Does the model receive sensitive data?

• Are responses and prompts compliant with policy?

• Is it possible to identify prompt injection before it is harmful?

• If something goes wrong, do we have an audit trail?

These are not examples of edge cases. For every team developing AI in production, they are essential.

That’s where Akto fits in.

Using a callback inside the LiteLLM proxy, Akto enforces AI guardrails as it flows through the gateway without requiring application changes. This allows teams to:

• Enforce security policies before the model is called

• Detect PII in prompts and responses

• Block prompt injection attempts at the proxy layer

• Log and monitor all LLM traffic for audit and investigation

The integration supports two modes:

• Sync mode: Akto validates requests before they reach the model and blocks violations in real time

  
  

  

• Async mode: Requests continue immediately, while Akto evaluates traffic in the background for visibility and alerting

  

For platform and ML teams, this means you can make your existing LiteLLM deployment security-aware without adding new infrastructure or slowing development. For security teams, it means LLM traffic is no longer a blind spot.

LiteLLM manages access to models. Akto helps make sure that access is used safely.

Together, they give teams a more production-ready way to run AI: routing, control, and security in the same layer of the stack.

About Akto

Akto is the Agentic AI Security platform that helps organizations secure AI agents, MCPs, and LLMs. Akto's platform enables teams to build their Agentic AI Security program through Discovery, Governance, red teaming, monitoring, and guardrail enforcement on Agentic AI assets. 100+ modern AI security teams globally trust Akto for MCP Security and AI Agent Security. Learn more at Akto.io.

About LiteLLM

LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway with 40,000+ GitHub stars, trusted by engineering teams at Adobe, Samsara, Rocket Money, and Lemonade. It provides a unified, OpenAI-compatible interface to 100+ LLM providers, enabling teams to manage routing, load balancing, rate limits, and cost tracking across every model they use. Learn more at litellm.ai.