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InferencevLLM Project

vLLM

High-throughput, memory-efficient inference engine for LLMs.

Category
Inference
Pricing
FREE
Hosting
Self-host
Platforms
LinuxCLIAPI
Models
Multi-model
Verified
Jun 7, 2026

A serving engine for large language and vision-language models, originally from UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab. Its PagedAttention KV-cache management and continuous batching deliver high throughput on commodity GPUs. Now a community project with 1000s of contributors and an OpenAI-compatible server.

Capabilities 3

What it actually does — grouped by capability family.

  • Tool / function calling (secondary capability)
  • Model inference / serving (primary capability)
  • Multi-model access (secondary capability)

Pros & cons

  • Serves most Hugging Face transformer models
  • High throughput via continuous batching
  • Apache-2.0, fully self-hostable
  • OpenAI-compatible server
  • Huge contributor community
  • You manage the GPU infrastructure
  • Setup/tuning learning curve
  • Less turnkey than hosted APIs
  • Optimized mainly for NVIDIA GPUs

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