Top Inference repositories

Repositories with the GitHub topic “inference”: 37 repositories with 998k stars between them, mostly written in Python, C++ and Go. The highest-rated is ggml-org/llama.cpp, #54 on the bestofgithub Elo ladder.

Biggest movers this week

RunanywhereAI/trnrt

Open on GitHubPython

The open LLM inference engine for AWS Trainium: NKI megakernels, 1M-token context, OpenAI-compatible API. By RunAnywhere.

  • 738−19 Elo, change today
  • 1.5k stars
  • 18 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/RunanywhereAI/trnrt.git
  • aws
  • glm
  • inference
  • llm

vllm-project/semantic-router

Open on GitHubGo

An open, programmable decision layer for models and compute.

  • 1,602+5 Elo, change today
  • 6.4k stars
  • 1.1k forks
git
git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router.git
  • ai-gateway
  • guardrails
  • inference
  • kubernetes

Human-Agent-Society/reef

Open on GitHubPython

Infrastructure for continually self‑improving agents

  • 1,533+12 Elo, change today
  • 7.8k stars
  • 737 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/Human-Agent-Society/reef.git
  • agent-infrastructure
  • ai-agents
  • continual-learning
  • inference

wici-ai/inferssd

Open on GitHubC++

Run models larger than your RAM or VRAM by streaming MoE experts from SSD. Built on llama.cpp.

  • 838+65 Elo, change today
  • 1.1k stars
  • 99 forks
git
git clone https://github.com/wici-ai/inferssd.git
  • apple-silicon
  • cuda
  • gguf
  • inference

ggml-org/llama.cpp

PickOpen on GitHubC++

LLM inference in plain C/C++: quantized models on CPUs, Apple Silicon and GPUs with almost no setup.

  • 2,322+8 Elo, change today
  • 135k stars
  • 25.6k forks
  • 926 watchers
brew install llama.cpp
  • llm
  • gguf
  • inference

Top 37 on the Elo ladder

  1. #54
    ggml-org/llama.cpp

    LLM inference in plain C/C++: quantized models on CPUs, Apple Silicon and GPUs with almost no setup.

    2,322 Elo +57135kC++
  2. #74
    ollama/ollama

    Run Llama, Gemma, Qwen and other open models locally behind a simple CLI and REST API.

    2,277 Elo −46187kGo
  3. #111
    vllm-project/vllm

    High-throughput LLM serving engine with PagedAttention and an OpenAI-compatible server.

    2,222 Elo −596.9kPython
  4. #275
    sgl-project/sglang

    SGLang is a high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.

    2,080 Elo +3538.9kPython
  5. #454
    ggml-org/whisper.cpp

    Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++

    1,992 Elo −955.2kC++
  6. #591
    FlashML-org/FreeToken

    FreeToken brings datacenter-scale model serving to your desktop. Run massive models locally, fast and efficiently.

    1,944 Elo +3817.2kPython
  7. #686
    SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

    Faster Whisper transcription with CTranslate2

    1,919 Elo +326.7kPython
  8. #797
    google-ai-edge/mediapipe

    Cross-platform, customizable ML solutions for live and streaming media.

    1,895 Elo −2237.7kC++
  9. #1,277
    1,816 Elo −116.4kPython
  10. #1,442
    vllm-project/vllm-omni

    A framework for efficient model inference with omni-modality models

    1,792 Elo +817.7kPython
  11. #1,560
    ultralytics/yolov5

    Ultralytics YOLOv5 in PyTorch for object detection, instance segmentation, classification, training, and export.

    1,777 Elo −3558.2kPython
  12. #1,801
    deepspeedai/DeepSpeed

    DeepSpeed is a deep learning optimization library that makes distributed training and inference easy, efficient, and…

    1,749 Elo −8743.3kPython
  13. #1,860
    LMCache/LMCache

    LMCache: Supercharge Your LLM with the Fastest KV Cache Layer

    1,743 Elo +2712.3kPython
  14. #2,098
    Tencent/ncnn

    ncnn is a high-performance neural network inference framework optimized for the mobile platform

    1,717 Elo −624kC++
  15. #2,530
    openvinotoolkit/openvino

    OpenVINO™ is an open source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference

    1,673 Elo +1211.1kC++
  16. #2,539
    stas00/ml-engineering

    Machine Learning Engineering Open Book

    1,672 Elo −119.7kPython
  17. #2,882
    kvcache-ai/Mooncake

    Mooncake is the serving platform for Kimi, a leading LLM service provided by Moonshot AI.

    1,646 Elo +537kC++
  18. #3,201
    hpcaitech/ColossalAI

    Making large AI models cheaper, faster and more accessible

    1,623 Elo −4841.4kPython
  19. #3,229
    NVIDIA/TensorRT

    NVIDIA® TensorRT™ is an SDK for high-performance deep learning inference on NVIDIA GPUs. This repository contains the…

    1,621 Elo +813.4kC++
  20. #3,541
    vllm-project/semantic-router

    An open, programmable decision layer for models and compute.

    1,602 Elo +816.4kGo
  21. #3,997
    aws/amazon-sagemaker-examples

    Example 📓 Jupyter notebooks that demonstrate how to build, train, and deploy machine learning models using 🧠 Amazon…

    1,573 Elo +811kJupyter Notebook
  22. #4,720
    Human-Agent-Society/reef

    Infrastructure for continually self‑improving agents

    1,533 Elo +787.8kPython
  23. #4,979
    triton-inference-server/server

    The Triton Inference Server provides an optimized cloud and edge inferencing solution.

    1,520 Elo −111.1kPython
  24. #5,389
    ultralytics/yolov3

    PyTorch implementation of YOLOv3, YOLOv3-SPP, and YOLOv3-tiny for real-time object detection with training, validation…

    1,501 Elo −1110.6kPython
  25. #5,869
    xorbitsai/inference

    Open-source inference platform for language, vision, embedding, reranking, image, audio, and video models. Deploy with…

    1,479 Elo −29.6kPython
  26. #6,253
    dusty-nv/jetson-inference

    Hello AI World guide to deploying deep-learning inference networks and deep vision primitives with TensorRT and NVIDIA…

    1,462 Elo −379kC++
  27. #6,370
    mizorewww/laya-mlx

    Native MLX runtime for Laya typed decision models — 7–14 ms short decisions on M3 Max. No text generation, PyTorch, or…

    1,457 Elo +527.1kPython
  28. #6,798
    RunanywhereAI/runanywhere-sdks

    Production ready toolkit to run AI locally

    1,441 Elo +2310.3kC++
  29. #6,928
    huggingface/text-generation-inference

    Large Language Model Text Generation Inference

    1,436 Elo −910.8kPython
  30. #7,091
    oumi-ai/oumi

    Easily fine-tune (SFT/RL), evaluate, and deploy Qwen, Gemma, or any open agentic LLM/VLM!

    1,430 Elo −109.4kPython
  31. #7,436
    gvergnaud/ts-pattern

    🎨 The exhaustive Pattern Matching library for TypeScript, with smart type inference.

    1,416 Elo −315.2kTypeScript
  32. #7,440
    Trusted-AI/adversarial-robustness-toolbox

    Adversarial Robustness Toolbox (ART) - Python Library for Machine Learning Security - Evasion, Poisoning, Extraction…

    1,416 Elo +16.3kPython
  33. #8,289
    Linzaer/Ultra-Light-Fast-Generic-Face-Detector-1MB

    💎1MB lightweight face detection model (1MB轻量级人脸检测模型)

    1,384 Elo −267.5kPython
  34. #8,675
    argmaxinc/argmax-oss-swift

    On-device Speech AI for Apple Silicon

    1,367 Elo +216.4kSwift
  35. #9,895
    gcanti/io-ts

    Runtime type system for IO decoding/encoding

    1,242 Elo −156.8kTypeScript
  36. #10,083
    wici-ai/inferssd

    Run models larger than your RAM or VRAM by streaming MoE experts from SSD. Built on llama.cpp.

    838 Elo +721.1kC++
  37. #10,149
    RunanywhereAI/trnrt

    The open LLM inference engine for AWS Trainium: NKI megakernels, 1M-token context, OpenAI-compatible API. By…

    738 Elo +2211.5kPython