Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Best matched with other inference tools.
Unified Efficient Fine-Tuning of 100+ LLMs & VLMs (ACL 2024)
Best matched with other inference tools.
vllm has the larger GitHub footprint with 86.9K stars.
Llamafactory is currently growing faster at +2.3K stars this week.
vllm has the stronger automated maintenance signal at 88/100. This is not a security or fit verdict.
Use these signals to narrow your choice, then confirm setup, license, and fit upstream.
| Signal | vllm | Llamafactory |
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| Evidence status | Recently verified· 21h ago | Basic listing· 23h ago |
| GitHub stars | 86.9K | 73.5K |
| Weekly growth | +606 | +2.3K |
| Health score | Strong88/100 |
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| Contributors | 2.6K | 288 |
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| Commits per week | 208.8 | 5.2 |
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| Open issues | 4.9K | 1.1K |
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| Language | Python | Python |
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| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
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| Last commit | 21h ago | 6d ago |
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| Last release | v0.20.2 | v0.9.5 |
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