Can exclude certain models when creating API keys for all models

[tan-yong-sheng]

For simplicity, I love to set an API key to access all models (especially models with free tier like Gemini and groq), but with exception of a few paid models. Hopefully, we could have this simple feature on litellm UI

[vitaliibudnyi]

Simple way around this is to have an admin account for openWebUI where you can create model (select one by one from the list of all models) and make it public or assign to group. And then create regular users that would have access to those public/allowed for a group models.

Another way around is to create new team in litellm and select which models it can use (one by one from list of all models). Then create new virtual key assigned to that team and save API key for later. In OpenWebUI your new users should not have access to all models by default. You allow users to do their own Connection. Each user would then add url to litellm and API key I mentioned above.
And they only have access to models you defined for that team. I believe this is also a good way to manage rates and budgets for users or separate groups of users if you doing this for your home network. So I like the second way better.

Btw, I just used your simple guide on litellm+openwebui today, it's very nice, thanks a lot.