PUpunkpeye·Jul 17, 2026Submission
Lightport – a maintained fork of Portkey AI gateway
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A lightweight AI gateway that makes LLM providers OpenAI-compatible.
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A lightweight AI gateway that makes LLM providers OpenAI-compatible.
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| Apr 27 | 2026-04-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| May 4 | 2026-05-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 11 | 2026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| May 25 | 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| Jun 29 | 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 6 | 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 13 | 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesShow HN: Lightport – open-source AI gateway
Hey HN!
I am the founder of Glama.
We are making Lightport open-source – it's the AI gateway that's been powering Glama.
GitHub: https://github.com/glama-ai/lightport
Live: https://glama.ai/ai/gateway
Why?
We're going all-in on the MCP ecosystem – it's what we're best at. Open-sourcing the gateway is both a thank-you to the community that helped us grow and a way to keep us focused.
The short backstory:
Lightport began as a fork of Portkey. We needed a way to make various LLM providers OpenAI-compatible, and Portkey provided a solid foundation. But it also came with many higher-level features (guardrails, billing, etc.) that we didn't think belonged at this layer – and that made it hard to iterate on provider compatibility. So we slimmed it down, fixed bugs, added integration tests for 80+ providers, and shaped it into one thing: a reliab
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le, lightweight layer that makes any LLM provider OpenAI-compatible.
What's next:
More modules will follow – guardrails, billing, retries, telemetry – each open-sourced as standalone middleware. We'll continue to maintain Lightport in the open, with a focus on OpenAI compatibility across LLM providers.
For Glama users:
The Glama AI gateway will continue to function as a privacy-first gateway, but we will support only a curated set of providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Grok, Groq, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, and a few others). For everything else, OpenRouter is a great alternative.
Try it, break it, build with it. I can't wait to see what you make.
Show HN: Lightport – AI gateway that makes LLM providers OpenAI-compatible
I am making Lightport open-source – the AI gateway that's been powering Glama.
GitHub: https://github.com/glama-ai/lightport
Live: https://glama.ai/ai/gateway
Why?
We're going all-in on the MCP ecosystem – it's what we're best at. Open-sourcing the gateway is both a thank-you to the community that helped us grow and a way to keep us focused.
The short backstory:
Lightport began as a fork of Portkey. We needed a way to make various LLM providers OpenAI-compatible, and Portkey provided a solid foundation. But it also came with many higher-level features (guardrails, billing, etc.) that we didn't think belonged at this layer – and that made it hard to iterate on provider compatibility. So we slimmed it down, fixed bugs, added integration tests for 80+ providers, and shaped it into one thing: a reliable, lightweight layer that makes any LLM p
Read the rest
rovider OpenAI-compatible.
What's next:
More modules will follow – guardrails, billing, retries, telemetry – each open-sourced as standalone middleware. We'll continue to maintain Lightport in the open, with a focus on OpenAI compatibility across LLM providers.
For Glama users:
The Glama AI gateway will continue to function as a privacy-first gateway, but we will support only a curated set of providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Grok, Groq, DeepSeek, Alibaba, Moonshot, and a few others). For everything else, OpenRouter is a great alternative.
Try it, break it, build with it. I can't wait to see what you make.