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llama.cpp vs vLLM

llama.cpp or vLLM? Their plans monthly and yearly, the capabilities their makers state, security and latest updates, side by side — read from the makers' own pages.

In short

  • Both: Choice of models, Self-hosted, API
  • Only llama.cpp states: Command line
  • Only vLLM states: Runs models for you

llama.cpp

Open-source C/C++ software for running large language and vision-language models locally or in the cloud.

Plans

Free

Free

  • Unlimited public/private repositories
  • Dependabot security and version updates
  • 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
  • 500MB of Packages storage
  • Issues & Projects
  • Community support

Team

  • $4 per user/month
  • Access to GitHub Codespaces
  • Repository rules
  • Multiple reviewers in pull requests
  • Draft pull requests
  • Code owners
  • Required reviewers

Enterprise

  • Starting at $21 per user/month
  • Data residency
  • Enterprise Managed Users
  • User provisioning through SCIM
  • Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
  • Environment protection rules
  • Repository rules

Prices checked 2026-09-24 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Command line — “llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF” source
  • Choice of models — “llama cli -hf ggml-org/Qwen3.5-0.8B-GGUF” source
  • Self-hosted — “locally and in the cloud.” source
  • API — “Launch OpenAI-compatible API server” source

Latest updates

  • b11160

    Adds Vulkan int8 cooperative-matrix quantized matmul for AMD RDNA3 and RDNA4, including q8_0, q4_1, q5_0, and q5_1.

  • b11159

    Handles misalignment in conv_2d and conv_3d.

  • b11158
About llama.cpp

vLLM

Open-source engine for serving large language models with batching, caching, quantization, and distributed inference.

Plans

Free

Free

  • Unlimited public/private repositories
  • Dependabot security and version updates
  • 2,000 CI/CD minutes/month
  • 500MB of Packages storage
  • Issues & Projects
  • Community support

Team

  • $4 USD per user/month
  • Access to GitHub Codespaces
  • Repository rules
  • Multiple reviewers in pull requests
  • Draft pull requests
  • Code owners
  • 3,000 CI/CD minutes/month

Enterprise

  • Starting at $21 USD per user/month
  • Data residency
  • Enterprise Managed Users
  • User provisioning through SCIM
  • Enterprise Account to centrally manage multiple organizations
  • Environment protection rules
  • Audit Log API

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

  • Choice of models — “vLLM seamlessly supports 200+ model architectures on Hugging Face, including:” source
  • Self-hosted — “A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs” source
  • API — “OpenAI-compatible API server, plus Anthropic Messages API and gRPC support” source
  • Runs models for you — “A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs” source

Latest updates

About vLLM