llmfit

GuideLLM is an open-source platform for benchmarking and evaluating real-world LLM inference deployments. It simulates end-to-end interactions with OpenAI-compatible and vLLM-native servers, using real or synthetic text and multimodal datasets and configurable execution profiles such as synchronous, concurrent, throughput, constant-rate, Poisson, and sweep workloads. It measures SLO-oriented latency and token statistics, including time to first token, inter-token latency, and end-to-end behavior, then produces console, JSON, CSV, or HTML reports for deployment tuning, capacity planning, and regression tracking. The tool provides both a CLI and API, with multiprocessing, threading, asynchronous execution, and Hugging Face, file, synthetic, or custom data sources.

llama.cpp is a C/C++ implementation for running large language and vision-language model inference locally or in the cloud, including on CPUs, GPUs, laptops, Apple silicon devices, and small computers such as Raspberry Pis. The project is built on the ggml library and uses integer quantization from 1.5-bit through 8-bit to reduce memory use and accelerate inference, with CPU, CUDA, HIP, Metal, Vulkan, SYCL, OpenCL, and other hardware backends. It supports hybrid CPU-GPU inference for models larger than available VRAM and includes command-line tools, a built-in web interface, and an OpenAI-compatible REST API server. The project is distributed as source code, Docker images, and pre-built binaries, with installation instructions at llama.app.

vLLM is an open-source library and inference-serving engine for deploying large language models on GPUs and other hardware accelerators. Originally developed in UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab, it is maintained by a broad community and provides an OpenAI-compatible API server, as well as Anthropic Messages API and gRPC support. Its serving stack manages attention key-value memory with PagedAttention, continuous batching, chunked prefill, prefix caching, streaming generation, and disaggregated prefill, decode, and encode. It also supports speculative decoding, quantization, optimized attention and GEMM/MoE kernels, automatic kernel generation and graph-level transformations, structured outputs, tool calling, multiple decoding algorithms, and distributed inference through tensor, pipeline, data, expert, and context parallelism. The project integrates with Hugging Face models and supports decoder-only, mixture-of-experts, hybrid state-space, multimodal, embedding, retrieval, reward, and classification models. It can run across NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and other supported accelerators, as well as x86, ARM, and PowerPC CPUs, and can be installed with uv or pip or built from source.

Langfuse is an open-source LLM engineering platform for developing, monitoring, evaluating, and debugging AI applications. It ingests traces for LLM calls and related operations such as retrieval, embeddings, and agent actions, with integrations including OpenTelemetry, LangChain, the OpenAI SDK, LiteLLM, and other LLM frameworks. Its features include prompt management with version control and collaborative iteration, LLM-as-a-judge and code-based evaluations, user feedback and manual labeling, datasets for test sets and benchmarks, trace replay and debugging, metrics, and a playground for testing prompts and model configurations. Langfuse exposes APIs and typed Python and JavaScript/TypeScript SDKs for custom LLMOps workflows. It is available as a managed cloud service or for self-hosting with Docker Compose, virtual machines, Kubernetes via Helm, or Terraform templates.

An open GitHub guide and configuration project by jamesob for running state-of-the-art large language models locally. It documents a multi-GPU system using PCIe switches so GPUs can communicate peer-to-peer, including hardware selection, BIOS bifurcation, link-speed and ASPM settings, kernel and GRUB parameters, ACS configuration, and GPU power limiting. The repository also provides Docker-based serving configurations, a local speech-to-text configuration, and a GPU peer-to-peer bandwidth and latency benchmark.