Claude Code vs vLLM

FeatureClaude CodevLLM
CategoryCoding AssistantsLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingPay-per-use (API)Free (open-source)
GitHub Stars25,00045,000
PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsLinux
Features
  • ✓ Terminal-native
  • ✓ Multi-file editing
  • ✓ Git integration
  • ✓ Codebase reasoning
  • ✓ Tool use
  • ✓ MCP support
  • ✓ PagedAttention
  • ✓ Continuous batching
  • ✓ Tensor parallelism
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
  • ✓ Multi-GPU
  • ✓ Quantization
Tags
codingclianthropicclaudeagentic
open-sourceinferenceservinggpuhigh-throughput