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A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

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vLLM is a high-throughput inference and serving engine using PagedAttention to maximize GPU utilization, the default choice for serving open models at scale.

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uv pip install vllm
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A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

vllm has 90.5k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 21.4k times. vllm is written mainly in Python. It has been in active development since 2023. vllm is available under the Apache-2.0 license. Its main topics are amd, blackwell, cuda, deepseek.

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What is vllm?

A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

Is vllm open source?

vllm is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is vllm free?

Yes. vllm is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

What license does vllm use?

vllm is available under the Apache-2.0 license.

What language is vllm written in?

vllm is written mainly in Python.

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