diff --git a/litellm/__init__.py b/litellm/__init__.py
index a82b888312..06c1a9a38e 100644
--- a/litellm/__init__.py
+++ b/litellm/__init__.py
@@ -229,30 +229,30 @@ model_list = (
 )
 
 provider_list = [
-    "OpenAI",
-    "Azure",
-    "Cohere",
-    "Anthropic",
-    "Replicate",
-    "Huggingface",
-    "Together_ai",
-    "Openrouter",
-    "Vertex_ai",
-    "AI21",
-    "Baseten",
+    "open",
+    "azure",
+    "cohere",
+    "anthropic",
+    "replicate",
+    "huggingface",
+    "together_ai",
+    "openrouter",
+    "vertex_ai",
+    "ai21",
+    "baseten",
 ]
 
 models_by_provider = {
-    "OpenAI": open_ai_chat_completion_models + open_ai_text_completion_models,
-    "Cohere": cohere_models,
-    "Anthropic": anthropic_models,
-    "Replicate": replicate_models,
-    "Huggingface": huggingface_models,
-    "Together_ai": together_ai_models,
-    "Baseten": baseten_models,
-    "Openrouter": openrouter_models,
-    "Vertex_ai": vertex_chat_models + vertex_text_models,
-    "AI21": ai21_models,
+    "openai": open_ai_chat_completion_models + open_ai_text_completion_models,
+    "cohere": cohere_models,
+    "anthropic": anthropic_models,
+    "replicate": replicate_models,
+    "huggingface": huggingface_models,
+    "together_ai": together_ai_models,
+    "baseten": baseten_models,
+    "openrouter": openrouter_models,
+    "vertex_ai": vertex_chat_models + vertex_text_models,
+    "ai21": ai21_models,
 }
 
 ####### EMBEDDING MODELS ###################