Semantic Kernel vs vLLM

FeatureSemantic KernelvLLM
CategoryAI DevelopmentLocal AI Infrastructure
PricingFree (open-source)Free (open-source)
GitHub Stars22,00045,000
PlatformsLinux, macOS, WindowsLinux
Features
  • ✓ Plugin system
  • ✓ Memory
  • ✓ Planner
  • ✓ Multi-language
  • ✓ Azure integration
  • ✓ PagedAttention
  • ✓ Continuous batching
  • ✓ Tensor parallelism
  • ✓ OpenAI-compatible API
  • ✓ Multi-GPU
  • ✓ Quantization
Tags
microsoftsdkenterprisedotnet
open-sourceinferenceservinggpuhigh-throughput