Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/NandhaKishorM/laya/vs/vllm-project/vllm
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/NandhaKishorM/laya/vs/vllm-project/vllm.md
Description: laya and vllm share 6 technologies: FastAPI, Hugging Face, torch, transformers, safetensors, and tokenizers. Both are written in Python.

# laya vs vllm

laya and vllm share 6 technologies: FastAPI, Hugging Face, torch, transformers, safetensors, and tokenizers. Both are written in Python.

- [NandhaKishorM/laya](https://seerepo.com/r/NandhaKishorM/laya): Non-autoregressive System 1 decision engine. Typed choice, score and yes/no decisions over any text in a single forward pass, in 100+ languages, with a router that picks the right checkpoint per request.
- [vllm-project/vllm](https://seerepo.com/r/vllm-project/vllm): A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

## What they share and what sets them apart

- In common: FastAPI, Hugging Face, torch, transformers, safetensors, tokenizers
- Only in laya: onnxscript, onnxruntime, ONNX, github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go, Microsoft.ML.OnnxRuntime, ort, log
- Only in vllm: axum, gitdb, pyzmq, Tokio, starlette, Ray, AIOHTTP, tower, mkdocs-material, indicatif, NVIDIA, OpenAI, peft, quack-kernels, sentencepiece, einops, triton, torchvision, datasets, torchaudio, MCP, tiktoken, markdown, markupsafe, pymdown-extensions, pillow, image, jinja2, Pydantic, msgspec, jsonschema, pydantic-core, opentelemetry-api, python-json-logger, tracing, prometheus-client, psutil, tracing-subscriber, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-sdk, prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator

## Side by side

| | laya | vllm |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 279,804 lines written, 294 code files | 2,375,117 lines written, 3,289 code files |
| Who writes it | 13.2% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot | 12.8% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Mistral Vibe, CodeRabbit, Factory, and Qwen Code |
| Activity | Last push November 6, 2026, 1,995 commits, 35,134 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 24,593 commits, 96,302 stars |
| Tests | 413 test files. 66% of its code files have a test that imports them | 2,419 test files. 60.2% of its code files have a test that imports them |

- Size: Lines written by people and agents, without generated ones; code files, without tests.
- Who writes it: A commit counts as AI's when it carries its signature: a Co-Authored-By line, its author name or the merge of its branch.
- Activity: From GitHub and its history, on the day SeeRepo read it.
- Tests: The files that test the code, and the share of code files a test imports.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which is bigger, laya or vllm?

vllm, with 2,375,117 lines written; laya has 279,804.

The proof: [vllm-project/vllm's code at commit 75f6761](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/tree/75f67614971a44050140e3422c1a65fe5004a72b)

### Which has more GitHub stars, laya or vllm?

vllm, with 96,302 stars; laya has 35,134.

The proof: [vllm-project/vllm on GitHub](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm)

### Which has more tests, laya or vllm?

vllm, with 2,419 test files; laya has 413.

The proof: [vllm-project/vllm's code at commit 75f6761](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/tree/75f67614971a44050140e3422c1a65fe5004a72b)

### Which was updated more recently, laya or vllm?

laya: its last push was on November 6, 2026, and vllm's on November 4, 2026.

The proof: [NandhaKishorM/laya's commits on GitHub](https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya/commits)

### Which has more commits signed by AI, laya or vllm?

laya: an AI signed 13.2% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot; in vllm, 12.8%.

The proof: [the commits each tool signed in NandhaKishorM/laya](https://seerepo.com/r/NandhaKishorM/laya/ai)

## Sources

- NandhaKishorM/laya: Read on November 7, 2026, at commit 4444f2f (https://github.com/NandhaKishorM/laya/tree/4444f2f56acdd31a633d594e9f3227f853241d9e)
- vllm-project/vllm: Read on November 4, 2026, at commit 75f6761 (https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/tree/75f67614971a44050140e3422c1a65fe5004a72b)

## What is your repo built with?

Any public repo, with no account: https://seerepo.com/r/owner/repo/built, with the owner and name it has on GitHub.