Project comparison
Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.
Jan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer.
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
vLLM has the larger GitHub footprint with 79.7K stars.
vLLM is currently growing faster at +606 stars this week.
vLLM has the stronger health score at 93/100.
| Signal | Jan | vLLM |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 42.5K | 79.7K |
| Weekly growth | +88 | +606 |
| Health score | 80 | 93 |
| Contributors | 171 | 2.6K |
| Commits per week | 52.2 | 208.8 |
| Open issues | 386 | 4.9K |
| Language | TypeScript | Python |
| License | NOASSERTION | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 1d ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v0.7.9 | v0.20.2 |
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