llama_index vs vllm
llama_index and vllm share 25 technologies: starlette, pyzmq, AIOHTTP, Ray, einops, OpenAI, torch, transformers, tiktoken, MCP, sentencepiece, datasets, peft, tokenizers, markupsafe, pillow, jinja2, Pydantic, jsonschema, pydantic-core, opentelemetry-api, prometheus-client, psutil, python-json-logger, and OpenTelemetry. Both are written in Python.
What they share and what sets them apart
llama_index
LlamaIndex is the document processing platform for AI
Python52.8kRead on November 5, 2026, at commit 444fdf0What is llama_index built with?Only in llama_index
- aiomysql
- aiosqlite
- async-lru
- asyncpg
- azure-search-documents
- azure-storage-blob
- ibm-db
- pgvecto-rs
pgvector
psycopg
psycopg2-binary
- Redis
weaviate-client
pyarrow
lancedb
oracledb
- DuckDB
- pymilvus
- SQLite
- tablestore
chromadb
falkordb
- MySQL
pinecone
clickhouse-connect
- gcsfs
pyiceberg
pymochow
- pymysql
- pyobvector
- s3fs
- tcvectordb
typesense
- ElevenLabs
- anyio
- graphql-core
tornado
- soupsieve
- tinycss2
- ipywidgets
- matplotlib-inline
prompt-toolkit
matplotlib
- Rich
- SQLAlchemy
- argon2-cffi
- azure-identity
google-auth-httplib2
google-auth-oauthlib
- cryptography
- pyjwt
- msal
firecrawl-py
- guardrails-ai
llama-index-core
- mem0ai
opencv-python
- PaddlePaddle
- tavily-python
- ibm-watsonx-ai
cohere
- LangChain
sentence-transformers
dashscope
fastembed
- flagembedding
nltk
litellm
- ModelScope
- Ollama
- openvino
- scikit-learn
- tritonclient
- vLLM
- exa-py
- flashrank
- hnswlib
langfuse
mlx
- mlx-lm
nomic
optimum
- paddleocr
presidio-analyzer
- beautifulsoup4
- bleach
- mistune
- nbformat
- newspaper3k
- xlrd
- bs4
- html2text
unstructured
- defusedxml
lxml
pymupdf
- filetype
- docx2txt
- markdownify
docling
- lxml-html-clean
- markitdown
- nbconvert
- pdf2image
- pdfplumber
pypdf
pypdf2
tinytag
- youtube-transcript-api
- jsonschema-specifications
marshmallow
- referencing
- rfc3339-validator
docling-core
- annotated-types
opentelemetry-semantic-conventions
- boto3
- docker
- Alibaba Cloud
In common
starlette
- pyzmq
- AIOHTTP
- Ray
- einops
OpenAI- torch
- transformers
- tiktoken
- MCP
- sentencepiece
- datasets
peft
tokenizers
markupsafe
pillow
- jinja2
- Pydantic
- jsonschema
- pydantic-core
- opentelemetry-api
prometheus-client
psutil
- python-json-logger
- OpenTelemetry
vllm
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
Python96.3kRead on November 4, 2026, at commit 75f6761What is vllm built with?Only in vllm
- FastAPI
- axum
- gitdb
- Hugging Face
- Tokio
- tower
mkdocs-material
- indicatif
- NVIDIA
- quack-kernels
safetensors
- triton
torchvision
torchaudio
- markdown
- pymdown-extensions
- image
msgspec
tracing
tracing-subscriber
- opentelemetry-sdk
- prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator
Side by side
Frequently asked questions
Which is bigger, llama_index or vllm?
The proof: vllm-project/vllm's code at commit 75f6761
Which has more GitHub stars, llama_index or vllm?
The proof: vllm-project/vllm on GitHub
Which has more tests, llama_index or vllm?
The proof: vllm-project/vllm's code at commit 75f6761
Which was updated more recently, llama_index or vllm?
The proof: run-llama/llama_index's commits on GitHub
Which has more commits signed by AI, llama_index or vllm?
The proof: the commits each tool signed in vllm-project/vllm
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