Hugging Face vs vLLM

FeatureHugging FacevLLM
CategoryAI DevelopmentLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingFree + Pro $9/mo + EnterpriseFree (open-source)
GitHub Stars140,00045,000
PlatformsWeb, macOS, Linux, WindowsLinux
Features
  • ✓ Model hub
  • ✓ Datasets
  • ✓ Spaces (demos)
  • ✓ Transformers library
  • ✓ Inference API
  • ✓ Fine-tuning
  • ✓ PagedAttention
  • ✓ Continuous batching
  • ✓ Tensor parallelism
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
  • ✓ Multi-GPU
  • ✓ Quantization
Tags
open-sourcemodelsdatasetscommunityml
open-sourceinferenceservinggpuhigh-throughput