litgpt vs vllm
litgpt and vllm share 4 technologies: safetensors, torch, tokenizers, and psutil. Both are written in Python.
What they share and what sets them apart
Lightning-AI
litgpt
20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.
Python13.7kRead on November 9, 2026, at commit 4738993What is litgpt built with?Only in litgpt
In common
vllm-project
vllm
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Python96.8kRead on November 12, 2026, at commit c6573eeWhat is vllm built with?Only in vllm
- FastAPI
- axum
- gitdb
- pyzmq
- Hugging Face
- Tokio
starlette
- Ray
- AIOHTTP
- tower
mkdocs-material
- indicatif
- AMD
apache-tvm-ffi
- auto-round-lib
- conch-triton-kernels
- cuda-bindings
- cuda-python
cupy-cuda12x
cupy-cuda13x
flashinfer-python
- humming-kernels
lm-format-enforcer
mooncake-transfer-engine
mooncake-transfer-engine-rocm
- NVIDIA
nvidia-cudnn-frontend
OpenAIopenai-harmony
- oss-harmony
- quack-kernels
- sentencepiece
- vllm-bench
- vllm-chat
- vllm-engine-core-client
- vllm-llm
- vllm-managed-engine
- vllm-parser
- vllm-proto
- vllm-server
- vllm-text
- vllm-tokenizer
- transformers
- xgrammar-structural-tag
- einops
llm-multimodal
- compressed-tensors
- triton
- mistral-common
xgrammar
partial-json-parser
torchvision
lmcache
torchaudio
timm
vllm-xpu-kernels
- runai-model-streamer
tokenspeed-mla
- llguidance
- MCP
outlines-core
- tpu-inference
- fastokens
- fastsafetensors
- hf-hub
- instanttensor
- nixl
- riptoken
- tekken
- tensorizer
- tiktoken
- tiktoken-rs
- markdown
markupsafe
- mkdocs-material-extensions
parquet
- properdocs
- pymdown-extensions
selectolax
- xlsxwriter
pillow
- image
- jinja2
minijinja
- torchcodec
minijinja-contrib
- annotated-types
- Pydantic
msgspec
- validator
- opentelemetry-semantic-conventions-ai
- python-json-logger
- vllm-metrics
- vllm-tracing
tracing
prometheus-client
tracing-subscriber
tracing-futures
- model-hosting-container-standards
- OpenTelemetry
- prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
tracing-log
Side by side
litgptvllm
SizeLines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
litgpt33,622 lines written64 code files
vllm2,489,750 lines written3,450 code files
Who writes itA commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
litgpt0.3% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code and GitHub Copilot
vllm14% of its commits signed by AIWith Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Mistral Vibe, CodeRabbit, Factory, and Qwen Code
ActivityFrom GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
litgptLast push November 1, 20261,499 commits13,746 stars
vllmLast push November 12, 202625,200 commits96,790 stars
TestsThe files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.
litgpt57 test files57.8% of its code files have a test that imports them
vllm2,521 test files61.1% of its code files have a test that imports them
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, litgpt or vllm?
vllm, with 2,489,750 lines written; litgpt has 33,622.
The proof: vllm-project/vllm's code at commit c6573ee
Which has more GitHub stars, litgpt or vllm?
vllm, with 96,790 stars; litgpt has 13,746.
The proof: vllm-project/vllm on GitHub
Which has more tests, litgpt or vllm?
vllm, with 2,521 test files; litgpt has 57.
The proof: vllm-project/vllm's code at commit c6573ee
Which was updated more recently, litgpt or vllm?
vllm: its last push was on November 12, 2026, and litgpt's on November 1, 2026.
The proof: vllm-project/vllm's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, litgpt or vllm?
vllm: an AI signed 14% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Mistral Vibe, CodeRabbit, Factory, and Qwen Code; in litgpt, 0.3%.
The proof: the commits each tool signed in vllm-project/vllm
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