Source: https://seerepo.com/compare/datalab-to/surya/vs/vllm-project/vllm
Markdown source: https://seerepo.com/compare/datalab-to/surya/vs/vllm-project/vllm.md
Description: surya and vllm share 7 technologies: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, torchvision, pillow, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

# surya vs vllm

surya and vllm share 7 technologies: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, torchvision, pillow, and Pydantic. Both are written in Python.

- [datalab-to/surya](https://seerepo.com/r/datalab-to/surya): OCR, layout analysis, reading order, table recognition in 90+ languages
- [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: Hugging Face, OpenAI, torch, transformers, torchvision, pillow, Pydantic
- Only in surya: beautifulsoup4, filetype, pypdfium2
- Only in vllm: FastAPI, axum, gitdb, pyzmq, Tokio, starlette, Ray, AIOHTTP, tower, mkdocs-material, indicatif, NVIDIA, peft, quack-kernels, sentencepiece, einops, safetensors, triton, datasets, torchaudio, MCP, tokenizers, tiktoken, markdown, markupsafe, pymdown-extensions, image, jinja2, msgspec, jsonschema, pydantic-core, opentelemetry-api, python-json-logger, tracing, prometheus-client, psutil, tracing-subscriber, OpenTelemetry, opentelemetry-sdk, prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator

## Side by side

| | surya | vllm |
|---|---|---|
| Size | 16,145 lines written, 93 code files | 2,375,117 lines written, 3,289 code files |
| Who writes it | 0.3% of its commits signed by AI. With Claude Code | 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 October 29, 2026, 799 commits, 21,579 stars | Last push November 4, 2026, 24,593 commits, 96,302 stars |
| Tests | 16 test files. 22.6% 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, surya or vllm?

vllm, with 2,375,117 lines written; surya has 16,145.

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

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

vllm, with 96,302 stars; surya has 21,579.

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

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

vllm, with 2,419 test files; surya has 16.

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

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

vllm: its last push was on November 4, 2026, and surya's on October 29, 2026.

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

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

vllm: an AI signed 12.8% of its commits, with Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Mistral Vibe, CodeRabbit, Factory, and Qwen Code; in surya, 0.3%.

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

## Sources

- datalab-to/surya: Read on November 5, 2026, at commit 9d5aadf (https://github.com/datalab-to/surya/tree/9d5aadfebb07939755c24e8a80d0e61b3be80895)
- 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.