Three Hidden Costs of LLM Proxies: Security, Ops & Routing Lessons from LiteLLM
Analyzing LiteLLM's 2026 supply-chain attacks, this article reveals three structural risks of self-hosted LLM proxies—centralized keys, privileged runtime, and unrestricted extensions—and shows how Wasm-sandboxed AI gateways with immutable releases, serverless operations, fallback routing, and intelligent model selection eliminate these hidden costs while cutting latency and spend.
