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vLLM vs SGLang vs LMDeploy: Fastest LLM Inference Engine in 2026?
Community description: SGLang and LMDeploy are the fastest LLM inference engines in 2026, both delivering approximately 16,200 tokens per second on H100 GPUs. vLLM follows at around 12,500 tokens per second, a 29% gap. The best engine depends on your workload: SGLang excels at multi-turn conversations, LMDeploy dominates
Dev.to | Mar 5, 2026 | Jaipal Singh
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Three engines dominate open-source LLM serving: vLLM, SGLang, and LMDeploy. Throughput measures tokens generated per second. LMDeploy claims 1. 8x higher request throughput than vLLM.
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