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Easy, fast, and cheap LLM serving for everyone
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Join us at the [PyTorch Conference, October 22-23](https://events.linuxfoundation.org/pytorch-conference/) and [Ray Summit, November 3-5](https://www.anyscale.com/ray-summit/2025) in San Francisco for our latest updates on vLLM and to meet the vLLM team! Register now for the largest vLLM community events of the year!

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*Latest News* 🔥
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- [2025/11] We hosted [the first vLLM Europe Meetup in Zurich](https://luma.com/0gls27kb) focused on quantization, distributed inference, and reinforcement learning at scale with speakers from Mistral, IBM, and Red Hat. Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UC9PTLCHYXQpOmJDSFg6Sljra3iVXzc09DeEI7dnxMc/edit?usp=sharing) and recording [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6ZE6yVEDI)
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- [2025/11] We hosted [vLLM Beijing Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xSrYXjNgr1HbCP4ExYNG1w) focusing on distributed inference and diverse accelerator support with vLLM! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nQJ8ZkLSjKxvu36sSHaceVXtttbLvvu-?usp=drive_link).
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- [2025/10] We hosted [vLLM Shanghai Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/__xb4OyOsImz-9eAVrdlcg) focused on hands-on vLLM inference optimization! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1KqwjsFJLfEsC8wlDugnrR61zsWHt94Q6).
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- [2025/09] We hosted [vLLM Toronto Meetup](https://luma.com/e80e0ymm) focused on tackling inference at scale and speculative decoding with speakers from NVIDIA and Red Hat! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IYJYmJcu9fLpID5N5RbW_vO0XLo0CGOR14IXOjB61V8/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/08] We hosted [vLLM Shenzhen Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/k8ZBO1u2_2odgiKWH_GVTQ) focusing on the ecosystem around vLLM! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ua2SVKVSu-wp5vou_6ElraDt2bnKhiEA).
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- [2025/08] We hosted [vLLM Singapore Meetup](https://www.sginnovate.com/event/vllm-sg-meet). We shared V1 updates, disaggregated serving and MLLM speedups with speakers from Embedded LLM, AMD, WekaIO, and A*STAR. Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ncf3GyqLdqFaB6IeB834E5TZJPLAOiXZ?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/08] We hosted [vLLM Shanghai Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/pDmAXHcN7Iqc8sUKgJgGtg) focusing on building, developing, and integrating with vLLM! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvLx39wnCGy_WKq8SiVKf7YcxxYI3WCH).
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- [2025/05] vLLM is now a hosted project under PyTorch Foundation! Please find the announcement [here](https://pytorch.org/blog/pytorch-foundation-welcomes-vllm/).
- [2025/01] We are excited to announce the alpha release of vLLM V1: A major architectural upgrade with 1.7x speedup! Clean code, optimized execution loop, zero-overhead prefix caching, enhanced multimodal support, and more. Please check out our blog post [here](https://blog.vllm.ai/2025/01/27/v1-alpha-release.html).

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- [2025/08] We hosted [vLLM Korea Meetup](https://luma.com/cgcgprmh) with Red Hat and Rebellions! We shared the latest advancements in vLLM along with project spotlights from the vLLM Korea community. Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bcrrAE1rxUgx0mjIeOWT6hNe2RefC5Hm/view).
- [2025/08] We hosted [vLLM Beijing Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/dgkWg1WFpWGO2jCdTqQHxA) focusing on large-scale LLM deployment! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pid6NSFLU43DZRi0EaTcPgXsAzDvbBqF) and the recording [here](https://www.chaspark.com/#/live/1166916873711665152).
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- [2025/05] We hosted [NYC vLLM Meetup](https://lu.ma/c1rqyf1f)! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_q_aW_ioMJWUImf1s1YM-ZhjXz8cUeL0IJvaquOYBeA/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/04] We hosted [Asia Developer Day](https://www.sginnovate.com/event/limited-availability-morning-evening-slots-remaining-inaugural-vllm-asia-developer-day)! Please find the meetup slides from the vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19cp6Qu8u48ihB91A064XfaXruNYiBOUKrBxAmDOllOo/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/03] We hosted [vLLM x Ollama Inference Night](https://lu.ma/vllm-ollama)! Please find the meetup slides from the vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/16T2PDD1YwRnZ4Tu8Q5r6n53c5Lr5c73UV9Vd2_eBo4U/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/03] We hosted [the first vLLM China Meetup](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/n77GibL2corAtQHtVEAzfg)! Please find the meetup slides from vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1REHvfQMKGnvz6p3Fd23HhSO4c8j5WPGZV0bKYLwnHyQ/edit?usp=sharing).
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- [2025/03] We hosted [the East Coast vLLM Meetup](https://lu.ma/7mu4k4xx)! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHiv8EUFF1NLd3fEYODm56nDmL26lEeXCaDgyDlTsRs/edit#slide=id.g31441846c39_0_0).
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- [2025/02] We hosted [the ninth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/h7g3kuj9) with Meta! Please find the meetup slides from vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jzC_PZVXrVNSFVCW-V4cFXb6pn7zZ2CyP_Flwo05aqg/edit?usp=sharing) and AMD [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zk5qEJIkTmlQ2eQcXQZlljAx3m9s7nwn/view?usp=sharing). The slides from Meta will not be posted.
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- [2025/01] We hosted [the eighth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/zep56hui) with Google Cloud! Please find the meetup slides from vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1epVkt4Zu8Jz_S5OhEHPc798emsYh2BwYfRuDDVEF7u4/edit?usp=sharing), and Google Cloud team [here](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h24pHewANyRL11xy5dXUbvRC9F9Kkjix/view?usp=sharing).
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- [2024/12] vLLM joins [pytorch ecosystem](https://pytorch.org/blog/vllm-joins-pytorch)! Easy, Fast, and Cheap LLM Serving for Everyone!
- [2024/11] We hosted [the seventh vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/h0qvrajz) with Snowflake! Please find the meetup slides from vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1e3CxQBV3JsfGp30SwyvS3eM_tW-ghOhJ9PAJGK6KR54/edit?usp=sharing), and Snowflake team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qF3RkDAbOULwz9WK5TOltt2fE9t6uIc_hVNLFAaQX6A/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2024/10] We have just created a developer slack ([slack.vllm.ai](https://slack.vllm.ai)) focusing on coordinating contributions and discussing features. Please feel free to join us there!
- [2024/10] Ray Summit 2024 held a special track for vLLM! Please find the opening talk slides from the vLLM team [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1B_KQxpHBTRa_mDF-tR6i8rWdOU5QoTZNcEg2MKZxEHM/edit?usp=sharing). Learn more from the [talks](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzTswPQNepXl6AQwifuwUImLPFRVpksjR) from other vLLM contributors and users!
- [2024/09] We hosted [the sixth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/87q3nvnh) with NVIDIA! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wrLGwytQfaOTd5wCGSPNhoaW3nq0E-9wqyP7ny93xRs/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2024/07] We hosted [the fifth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/lp0gyjqr) with AWS! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RgUD8aCfcHocghoP3zmXzck9vX3RCI9yfUAB2Bbcl4Y/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2024/07] In partnership with Meta, vLLM officially supports Llama 3.1 with FP8 quantization and pipeline parallelism! Please check out our blog post [here](https://blog.vllm.ai/2024/07/23/llama31.html).
- [2024/06] We hosted [the fourth vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/agivllm) with Cloudflare and BentoML! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iJ8o7V2bQEi0BFEljLTwc5G1S10_Rhv3beed5oB0NJ4/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2024/04] We hosted [the third vLLM meetup](https://robloxandvllmmeetup2024.splashthat.com/) with Roblox! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1A--47JAK4BJ39t954HyTkvtfwn0fkqtsL8NGFuslReM/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2024/01] We hosted [the second vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/ygxbpzhl) with IBM! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/12mI2sKABnUw5RBWXDYY-HtHth4iMSNcEoQ10jDQbxgA/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2023/10] We hosted [the first vLLM meetup](https://lu.ma/first-vllm-meetup) with a16z! Please find the meetup slides [here](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QL-XPFXiFpDBh86DbEegFXBXFXjix4v032GhShbKf3s/edit?usp=sharing).
- [2023/08] We would like to express our sincere gratitude to [Andreessen Horowitz](https://a16z.com/2023/08/30/supporting-the-open-source-ai-community/) (a16z) for providing a generous grant to support the open-source development and research of vLLM.
- [2023/06] We officially released vLLM! FastChat-vLLM integration has powered [LMSYS Vicuna and Chatbot Arena](https://chat.lmsys.org) since mid-April. Check out our [blog post](https://vllm.ai).
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## About
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vLLM is a fast and easy-to-use library for LLM inference and serving.
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Originally developed in the [Sky Computing Lab](https://sky.cs.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkeley, vLLM has evolved into a community-driven project with contributions from both academia and industry.
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vLLM is fast with:
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- State-of-the-art serving throughput
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- Efficient management of attention key and value memory with [**PagedAttention**](https://blog.vllm.ai/2023/06/20/vllm.html)
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- Continuous batching of incoming requests
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- Fast model execution with CUDA/HIP graph
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- Quantizations: [GPTQ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323), [AWQ](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00978), [AutoRound](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05516), INT4, INT8, and FP8
- Optimized CUDA kernels, including integration with FlashAttention and FlashInfer
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- Speculative decoding
- Chunked prefill
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vLLM is flexible and easy to use with:

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- Seamless integration with popular Hugging Face models
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- High-throughput serving with various decoding algorithms, including *parallel sampling*, *beam search*, and more
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- Tensor, pipeline, data and expert parallelism support for distributed inference
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- Streaming outputs
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- Support for NVIDIA GPUs, AMD CPUs and GPUs, Intel CPUs and GPUs, PowerPC CPUs, Arm CPUs, and TPU. Additionally, support for diverse hardware plugins such as Intel Gaudi, IBM Spyre and Huawei Ascend.
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- Prefix caching support
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- Multi-LoRA support
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vLLM seamlessly supports most popular open-source models on HuggingFace, including:
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- Transformer-like LLMs (e.g., Llama)
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- Mixture-of-Expert LLMs (e.g., Mixtral, Deepseek-V2 and V3)
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- Embedding Models (e.g., E5-Mistral)
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- Multi-modal LLMs (e.g., LLaVA)

Find the full list of supported models [here](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/models/supported_models.html).

## Getting Started
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Install vLLM with `pip` or [from source](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/installation/gpu/index.html#build-wheel-from-source):
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```bash
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Visit our [documentation](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/) to learn more.
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- [Installation](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/installation.html)
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- [Quickstart](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/getting_started/quickstart.html)
- [List of Supported Models](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/models/supported_models.html)
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## Contributing
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We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations.
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Please check out [Contributing to vLLM](https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/contributing/index.html) for how to get involved.
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## Sponsors

vLLM is a community project. Our compute resources for development and testing are supported by the following organizations. Thank you for your support!

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Cash Donations:
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- a16z
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- Dropbox
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- Skywork AI
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- AMD
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Slack Sponsor: Anyscale
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We also have an official fundraising venue through [OpenCollective](https://opencollective.com/vllm). We plan to use the fund to support the development, maintenance, and adoption of vLLM.

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## Citation

If you use vLLM for your research, please cite our [paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.06180):
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```bibtex
@inproceedings{kwon2023efficient,
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  title={Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention},
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  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}
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## Contact Us

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- For technical questions and feature requests, please use GitHub [Issues](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues)
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- For discussing with fellow users, please use the [vLLM Forum](https://discuss.vllm.ai)
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- For coordinating contributions and development, please use [Slack](https://slack.vllm.ai)
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- For security disclosures, please use GitHub's [Security Advisories](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/security/advisories) feature
- For collaborations and partnerships, please contact us at [vllm-questions@lists.berkeley.edu](mailto:vllm-questions@lists.berkeley.edu)
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## Media Kit

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- If you wish to use vLLM's logo, please refer to [our media kit repo](https://github.com/vllm-project/media-kit)