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JWT-based Auth

Use JWT's to auth admins / projects into the proxy.

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✨ JWT-based Auth is on LiteLLM Enterprise starting at $250/mo

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Usage​

Step 1. Setup Proxy​

  • JWT_PUBLIC_KEY_URL: This is the public keys endpoint of your OpenID provider. Typically it's {openid-provider-base-url}/.well-known/openid-configuration/jwks. For Keycloak it's {keycloak_base_url}/realms/{your-realm}/protocol/openid-connect/certs.
  • JWT_AUDIENCE: This is the audience used for decoding the JWT. If not set, the decode step will not verify the audience. 
export JWT_PUBLIC_KEY_URL="" # "https://demo.duendesoftware.com/.well-known/openid-configuration/jwks"
  • enable_jwt_auth in your config. This will tell the proxy to check if a token is a jwt token.
general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True

model_list:
- model_name: azure-gpt-3.5 
  litellm_params:
      model: azure/<your-deployment-name>
      api_base: os.environ/AZURE_API_BASE
      api_key: os.environ/AZURE_API_KEY
      api_version: "2023-07-01-preview"

Step 2. Create JWT with scopes​

Create a client scope called litellm_proxy_admin in your OpenID provider (e.g. Keycloak).

Grant your user, litellm_proxy_admin scope when generating a JWT. 

curl --location ' 'https://demo.duendesoftware.com/connect/token'' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'client_id={CLIENT_ID}' \
--data-urlencode 'client_secret={CLIENT_SECRET}' \
--data-urlencode 'username=test-{USERNAME}' \
--data-urlencode 'password={USER_PASSWORD}' \
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=password' \
--data-urlencode 'scope=litellm_proxy_admin' # 👈 grant this scope

Step 3. Test your JWT​

curl --location '{proxy_base_url}/key/generate' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiI...' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{}'

Advanced - Set Accepted JWT Scope Names​

Change the string in JWT 'scopes', that litellm evaluates to see if a user has admin access.

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    admin_jwt_scope: "litellm-proxy-admin"

Advanced - Spend Tracking (End-Users / Internal Users / Team / Org)​

Set the field in the jwt token, which corresponds to a litellm user / team / org.

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    admin_jwt_scope: "litellm-proxy-admin"
    team_id_jwt_field: "client_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
    user_id_jwt_field: "sub" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
    org_id_jwt_field: "org_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD
    end_user_id_jwt_field: "customer_id" # 👈 CAN BE ANY FIELD

Expected JWT: 

{
  "client_id": "my-unique-team",
  "sub": "my-unique-user",
  "org_id": "my-unique-org",
}

Now litellm will automatically update the spend for the user/team/org in the db for each call.

JWT Scopes​

Here's what scopes on JWT-Auth tokens look like

Can be a list

scope: ["litellm-proxy-admin",...]

Can be a space-separated string

scope: "litellm-proxy-admin ..."

Advanced - Allowed Routes​

Configure which routes a JWT can access via the config.

By default:

  • Admins: can access only management routes (/team/*, /key/*, /user/*)
  • Teams: can access only openai routes (/chat/completions, etc.)+ info routes (/*/info)

See Code

Admin Routes

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    admin_jwt_scope: "litellm-proxy-admin"
    admin_allowed_routes: ["/v1/embeddings"]

Team Routes

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    ...
    team_id_jwt_field: "litellm-team" # 👈 Set field in the JWT token that stores the team ID
    team_allowed_routes: ["/v1/chat/completions"] # 👈 Set accepted routes

Advanced - Caching Public Keys​

Control how long public keys are cached for (in seconds).

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    admin_jwt_scope: "litellm-proxy-admin"
    admin_allowed_routes: ["/v1/embeddings"]
    public_key_ttl: 600 # 👈 KEY CHANGE

Advanced - Custom JWT Field​

Set a custom field in which the team_id exists. By default, the 'client_id' field is checked. 

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    team_id_jwt_field: "client_id" # 👈 KEY CHANGE

All Params​

See Code

Advanced - Block Teams​

To block all requests for a certain team id, use /team/block

Block Team

curl --location 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/team/block' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <admin-token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "team_id": "litellm-test-client-id-new" # 👈 set team id
}'

Unblock Team

curl --location 'http://0.0.0.0:4000/team/unblock' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer <admin-token>' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--data '{
    "team_id": "litellm-test-client-id-new" # 👈 set team id
}'

Advanced - Upsert Users + Allowed Email Domains​

Allow users who belong to a specific email domain, automatic access to the proxy.

general_settings:
  master_key: sk-1234
  enable_jwt_auth: True
  litellm_jwtauth:
    user_email_jwt_field: "email" # 👈 checks 'email' field in jwt payload
    user_allowed_email_domain: "my-co.com" # allows user@my-co.com to call proxy
    user_id_upsert: true # 👈 upserts the user to db, if valid email but not in db