Anthropic MCP vs vLLM

FeatureAnthropic MCPvLLM
CategoryAI DevelopmentLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingFree (open standard)Free (open-source)
GitHub Stars45,00045,000
PlatformsmacOS, Linux, WindowsLinux
Features
  • ✓ Universal tool protocol
  • ✓ Server/client architecture
  • ✓ Stdio and SSE transport
  • ✓ TypeScript + Python SDKs
  • ✓ Growing ecosystem
  • ✓ PagedAttention
  • ✓ Continuous batching
  • ✓ Tensor parallelism
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
  • ✓ Multi-GPU
  • ✓ Quantization
Tags
open-sourceprotocoltoolsintegrationstandard
open-sourceinferenceservinggpuhigh-throughput