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TokenSpeed

TokenSpeed — a speed-of-light LLM inference engine designed for agentic workloads, with TensorRT-LLM-level performance and vLLM-level usability

★ 2.5k stars⑂ 336 forksMITupdated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

TokenSpeed is an open-source local llm project by lightseekorg (lightseekorg/tokenspeed on GitHub). It has 2,473 GitHub stars and 336 forks, is released under the MIT license, and was last updated on GitHub on 15 October 2026.

GitHub stars
2,473
Forks
336
License
MIT
Last updated on GitHub
15 October 2026
Category
Local LLM
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Full install guide
Official site
Documentation
// how it works

How it works

  1. Read the getting-started guide

    TokenSpeed’s docs cover installation and requirements for your GPU stack.

  2. Launch a server

    Follow the launching guide to serve a model with the engine.

  3. Tune for agent traffic

    Use the server parameters, model recipes and parallelism guides to fit long, tool-heavy agentic sessions.

// features

Why people love it

Built for agentic workloads

Scheduling, KV cache ownership and overlap timing are modelled as a finite-state machine tuned for agent request patterns.

Serious kernels

A pluggable kernel registry includes one of the fastest MLA implementations on NVIDIA Blackwell.

Safety by construction

KV resource reuse safety is enforced by the type system at compile time, not by convention.

Day-0 model support

New agentic-coding models (Qwen3.8 Flash Next, GLM 5.3 Flash) were supported at release.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Start from the source and the linked guides.

    git clone https://github.com/lightseekorg/tokenspeed.git
  2. Follow the getting-started guide

    Installation and first run, per the official docs.

    https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/guides/getting-started
  3. Launch a server

    The launching guide covers serving configuration.

    https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/guides/launching
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains TokenSpeed?

The TokenSpeed Team at LightSeek (lightseekorg).

Is it free?

Yes, MIT-licensed and open source.

Does it need a paid API key?

No — it is a self-hosted inference engine; you bring the hardware and the model weights.

How does it compare to a well-known alternative?

vLLM is the general-purpose usability benchmark and TensorRT-LLM the performance one. TokenSpeed targets both at once, with an architecture specialised for agentic workloads rather than chat traffic.

How do I get started?

Clone the repo and follow the official getting-started and launching guides at lightseek.org/tokenspeed.

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