Best Open Source LLM Runtimes

Ranked by GitHub stars and 342 days of tracked growth. The top open source LLM runtimes below are updated daily β€” pick two to see a full side-by-side comparison.

1
vllm
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
⭐ 94.1k +50.0%
2
yolov5
Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, training, and export.
⭐ 58.2k +3.9%
3
ray
Ray is an AI compute engine. Ray consists of a core distributed runtime and a set of AI Libraries for accelerating ML workloads.
⭐ 44.1k +10.9%
4
DeepSpeed
DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and effective.
⭐ 43.2k +6.4%
5
ColossalAI
Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible
⭐ 41.4k +0.5%
6
ml-engineering
Machine Learning Engineering Open Book
⭐ 19.6k +24.7%
7
OpenLLM
Run any open-source LLMs, such as DeepSeek and Llama, as OpenAI compatible API endpoint in the cloud.
⭐ 12.6k +5.3%
8
openvino
OpenVINOβ„’ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference
⭐ 11.0k +19.9%
9
amazon-sagemaker-examples
Example πŸ““ Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how to build, train, and deploy machine learning models using 🧠 Amazon SageMaker.
⭐ 11.0k +1.8%
10
skypilot
The AI Compute Platform for frontier teams. SkyPilot turns fragmented AI compute into one AI supercomputer, so frontier AI teams build custom intelligence faster.
⭐ 10.7k +11.2%
11
inference
Swap GPT for any LLM by changing a single line of code. Xinference lets you run open-source, speech, and multimodal models on cloud, on-prem, or your laptop β€” all through one unified, production-ready inference API.
⭐ 9.6k +1.2%
12
Soup
Fine-tune LLMs from one YAML. Layer streaming trains an 8B model on a 4 GB laptop GPU.
⭐ 9.4k +13.9%

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