Project comparison

Lemonade vs vLLM

Compare adoption, momentum, maintenance health, and project basics before choosing which tool to evaluate deeper.

Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk

3.9K

Stars

Weekly

69/100

Health

vLLM

A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs

79.7K

Stars

+606

Weekly

93/100

Health

Quick Take

Adoption

vLLM has the larger GitHub footprint with 79.7K stars.

Momentum

vLLM is currently growing faster at +606 stars this week.

Maintenance

vLLM has the stronger health score at 93/100.

Side-by-side Metrics

Signal	Lemonade	vLLM
GitHub stars	3.9K	79.7K
Weekly growth	0	+606
Health score	69	93
Contributors	78	2.6K
Commits per week	25.7	208.8
Open issues	260	4.9K
Language	C++	Python
License	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Last commit	21h ago	14h ago
Last release	v10.4.0	v0.20.2

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