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SGLang vs LMDeploy: catalog facts
SGLang	LMDeploy
Free Free to download and run from its public repository.	Free Free and open source.
Self-hosted, Command line	Self-hosted, Command line
Built for high-throughput model serving Handles both language and multimodal models	Combines model compression and serving in one toolkit Built for high-throughput inference
Needs capable GPU hardware Aimed at servers and developers rather than desktop chat use	Aimed at developers, not casual users Needs suitable GPU hardware for larger models
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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