Use Wild West API through LiteLLM

LiteLLM reaches any OpenAI-compatible endpoint with an openai/ model prefix and an api_base. It splits the model string at the first slash only, so a Wild West API id with its own slash survives.

Base URL

https://wildwestapi.com/v1

API key

Get one free, starts sk-ww-

Example model

outlaw-1-xploded

The SDK

# pip install litellm
from litellm import completion

resp = completion(
    model="openai/outlaw-1-xploded",
    api_key="sk-ww-...",
    api_base="https://wildwestapi.com/v1",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

The openai/ prefix tells LiteLLM to use the OpenAI-compatible path; the rest of the string, slash and all, is passed through as the model id.

The Proxy

In the LiteLLM Proxy config.yaml:

model_list:
  - model_name: deepseek-chat
    litellm_params:
      model: openai/outlaw-1-xploded
      api_base: https://wildwestapi.com/v1
      api_key: os.environ/WILDWEST_API_KEY

api_base must end in /v1. Wild West API has no embeddings endpoint, so do not route embedding models through it.

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