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vLLM

High-throughput LLM serving with PagedAttention

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Production-grade LLM inference server. PagedAttention enables high throughput and efficient KV cache memory management.

Choose vLLM when…

  • You're serving LLMs at high throughput in production
  • Continuous batching and PagedAttention are needed
  • You're running your own GPU inference cluster

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Where do your models actually run?Required for most stacks

LLM providers and inference servers — where the actual model computation happens

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✦ Free tier available

In 2 stacks

Ruled out by 2 stacks

Indie Hacker / Startup Stack
GPU ops are a full-time job you don't have
Edge / On-Device AI Stack
High-throughput server inference framework — requires GPU server infrastructure

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