performance-eager-http-requests-importing-litellm-triggers-an-http-get-request-to--6c324db4

THEN Defer the HTTP request for model pricing data until it is actually needed (e.g., during cost calculation). Use a lazy loading mechanism such as a cached property or function that only fetches the data on first access.

# Before: eager fetch during import
# from somewhere import fetch_prices
# model_prices = fetch_prices()

# After: lazy loading
_model_prices = None
def get_model_prices():
    global _model_prices
    if _model_prices is None:
        _model_prices = fetch_prices()
    return _model_prices