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sglang

High-performance serving for the LLMs that power your agents.

★ 36.9k stars⑂ 9.4k forksApache-2.0updated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

sglang is an open-source ai agents project by sgl-project (sgl-project/sglang on GitHub). It has 36,854 GitHub stars and 9,370 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 8 October 2026.

GitHub stars
36,854
Forks
9,370
License
Apache-2.0
Last updated on GitHub
8 October 2026
Category
AI Agents
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your goal

    Decide what you want the project to do before installing anything.

  2. Clone the repo

    Grab the source and skim the README for setup requirements.

  3. Install and configure

    Install dependencies and add any API keys or settings it needs.

  4. Run your first task

    Launch it and follow the example workflow from the docs.

// features

Why people love it

High throughput

Optimized serving for demanding agent loops.

Multimodal support

Serves vision-and-language models too.

Modern GPUs

CUDA and Blackwell-era optimizations.

Broad model support

DeepSeek, GLM, GPT-OSS, diffusion models.

Python-based

Familiar stack for ML teams.

Apache-2.0

Open and commercially friendly.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Step 1 - Clone the repo

    Download the source and move into the project folder.

    git clone https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang.git
    cd sglang
  2. Step 2 - Install dependencies

    Create a virtual environment and install the requirements.

    python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt
  3. Step 3 - Run an example

    Treat these as starting points - the README documents the exact commands.

    python examples/quickstart.py
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains sglang?

It is an open-source project at sgl-project/sglang with 9370 forks. Check the repo's contributors and recent commits to judge how active maintenance is.

Is sglang free to use?

Yes - it is Apache-2.0 licensed, so it is free for commercial use with attribution.

Do I need a paid API to use it?

No - this is infrastructure you run on your own hardware, so there is no per-request fee.

Do I need this if I use a hosted API?

No - SGLang is for self-hosting. If you call OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs, you don't need a serving framework at all.

How do I get started?

Clone the repo, read the README's quickstart, and run the provided example - most projects get you to a first result in minutes.

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