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SGLang vs Sonar: catalog facts
SGLang	Sonar
Free Free to download and run from its public repository.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL-3.0 licence.
Self-hosted, Command line	macOS, Linux, Self-hosted, Command line
Built for high-throughput model serving Handles both language and multimodal models	OpenAI-compatible API with streaming, embeddings and tool calls Continuous batching and several forms of parallelism for many concurrent users
Needs capable GPU hardware Aimed at servers and developers rather than desktop chat use	Aimed at server deployments rather than casual desktop chat Recently renamed from Aphrodite Engine, so older guides use the old name
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
No account needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026

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