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SGLang vs vLLM: catalog facts
SGLang	vLLM
Free Free to download and run from its public repository.	Free Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license.
Self-hosted, Command line	Linux, Command line
Built for high-throughput model serving Handles both language and multimodal models	High-throughput serving suited to production-scale local deployments Apache-2.0 licensed and actively developed
Needs capable GPU hardware Aimed at servers and developers rather than desktop chat use	Aimed at developers deploying models rather than casual end users Requires appropriate GPU hardware for good performance
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app, Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License not stated	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	Not stated if an account is 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 22, 2026

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