OpenLit
OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation for LLM applications and GPU monitoring.
Logging, monitoring and analytics PyPI Apache-2.0
How OpenLit is used
OpenLit joined the catalog on its public numbers (76,187 downloads a week on PyPI and 2,863 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 1 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is OpenTelemetry SDK (58 projects). Projects that use it most often also use python-dotenv (80.0%), Beautiful Soup (60.0%), FastAPI (60.0%).
OpenLit popularity over time
Gid Score 31: downloads 40, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 29, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with OpenLit
| python-dotenv | 80.0% of OpenLit projects · 8.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| Beautiful Soup | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 27.8× more than average |
| FastAPI | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 8.0× more than average |
| LangChain | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 29.6× more than average |
| LiteLLM | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 98.0× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 7.5× more than average |
| OpenTelemetry OTLP Exporter | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 232.8× more than average |
| OpenTelemetry SDK | 60.0% of OpenLit projects · 64.2× more than average |
How OpenLit is funded
Open Collective: OpenLIT
| Received, last 12 months | $215 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $1,050 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $236 |
| Raised since the start | $236 |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $21 |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| TestMu AI (Formerly LambdaTest) | $225 since Oct 2025 |
|---|
Oct 2025Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Oct 2025. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
Ways to fund OpenLit
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install openlit |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (5) |
| Example projects | khan2a/telephony-mcp-server |
Alternatives to OpenLit
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside OpenLit are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenTelemetry SDK pypi Python SDK implementation for OpenTelemetry providing tracing, metrics and logging. |
70 | 58 (3.6%) | 71.4M | 2,681 | Apache-2.0 |
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