Easy, fast, and cheap LLM serving for everyone

vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.

Originally developed in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, vLLM has grown into one of the most active open-source AI projects built and maintained by a diverse community of many dozens of academic institutions and companies from over 2000 contributors.

vLLM is fast with:

• State-of-the-art serving throughput
• Efficient management of attention key and value memory with PagedAttention
• Continuous batching of incoming requests, chunked prefill, prefix caching
• Fast and flexible model execution with piecewise and full CUDA/HIP graphs
• Quantization: FP8, MXFP8/MXFP4, NVFP4, INT8, INT4, GPTQ/AWQ, GGUF, compressed-tensors, ModelOpt, TorchAO, and more
• Optimized attention kernels including FlashAttention, FlashInfer, TRTLLM-GEN, FlashMLA, and Triton
• Optimized GEMM/MoE kernels for various precisions using CUTLASS, TRTLLM-GEN, CuTeDSL
• Speculative decoding including n-gram, suffix, EAGLE, DFlash
• Automatic kernel generation and graph-level transformations using torch.compile
• Disaggregated prefill, decode, and encode

vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:

• Seamless integration with popular Hugging Face models
• High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including parallel sampling, beam search, and more
• Tensor, pipeline, data, expert, and context parallelism for distributed inference
• Streaming outputs
• Generation of structured outputs using xgrammar or guidance
• Tool calling and reasoning parsers
• OpenAI-compatible API server, plus Anthropic Messages API and gRPC support
• Efficient multi-LoRA support for dense and MoE layers
• Support for NVIDIA GPUs, AMD GPUs, Intel GPUs, and x86/ARM/PowerPC CPUs. Additionally, diverse hardware plugins such as Google TPUs, Intel Gaudi, IBM Spyre, Huawei Ascend, Rebellions NPU, Apple Silicon, MetaX GPU, and more.

vLLM seamlessly supports 200+ model architectures on Hugging Face, including:

• Decoder-only LLMs (e.g., Llama, Qwen, Gemma)
• Mixture-of-Expert LLMs (e.g., Mixtral, DeepSeek-V3, Qwen-MoE, GPT-OSS)
• Hybrid attention and state-space models (e.g., Mamba, Qwen3.5)
• Multi-modal models (e.g., LLaVA, Qwen-VL, Pixtral)
• Embedding and retrieval models (e.g., E5-Mistral, GTE, ColBERT)
• Reward and classification models (e.g., Qwen-Math)

Getting Started

Install vLLM with uv (recommended) or pip:

uv pip install vllm
vllm download-kernels  # precompiled kernels for faster startup

Or build from source for development.

Contributing

We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations. Please check out Contributing to vLLM for how to get involved.

Citation

If you use vLLM for your research, please cite our paper:

@inproceedings{kwon2023efficient,
  title={Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention},
  author={Woosuk Kwon and Zhuohan Li and Siyuan Zhuang and Ying Sheng and Lianmin Zheng and Cody Hao Yu and Joseph E. Gonzalez and Hao Zhang and Ion Stoica},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 29th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles},
  year={2023}
}

Contact Us

• For technical questions and feature requests, please use GitHub Issues
• For discussing with fellow users, please use the vLLM Forum
• For coordinating contributions and development, please use Slack
• For security disclosures, please use GitHub's Security Advisories feature
• For collaborations and partnerships, please contact us at collaboration@vllm.ai