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vllm-omni

vLLM-Omni — efficient inference for omni-modality models: image, audio, video, diffusion and policies.

★ 7.1k stars⑂ 1.9k forksApache-2.0updated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

vllm-omni is an open-source local llm project by vllm-project (vllm-project/vllm-omni on GitHub). It has 7,085 GitHub stars and 1,871 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 8 October 2026.

GitHub stars
7,085
Forks
1,871
License
Apache-2.0
Last updated on GitHub
8 October 2026
Category
Local LLM
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Official site
// how it works

How it works

  1. Clarify your goal

    Pick the model family you will serve (omni, TTS, diffusion or robot policy) and confirm your GPU capacity against that model's requirements.

  2. Get the project

    Clone vllm-project/vllm-omni from GitHub (or use the install path in the run steps below) and skim its README for the parts relevant to your goal.

  3. Install and configure

    Follow the vLLM-Omni documentation installation guide for your CUDA environment, or use the nightly CUDA Docker images built from main.

  4. Run your first task

    Serve one supported model from Hugging Face and call it through the OpenAI-compatible API with a multimodal request.

// features

Why people love it

Omni-modality serving

One framework serves models across text, image, audio, video and action data, with heterogeneous outputs.

Non-autoregressive support

Extends vLLM's AR strengths to Diffusion Transformers and other parallel-generation models.

Pipelined, disaggregated execution

Stage execution overlaps for throughput, with full disaggregation via OmniConnector and dynamic resource allocation across stages.

vLLM efficiency

State-of-the-art autoregressive support through vLLM's efficient KV-cache management, plus streaming outputs.

Distributed parallelism

Tensor, pipeline, data and expert parallelism for serving large models across GPUs.

OpenAI-compatible API

Serves through an OpenAI-compatible API server, with seamless integration for popular Hugging Face models.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Get the source from the official GitHub repository for vllm-omni.

    git clone https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni.git
    cd vllm-omni
  2. Install vLLM-Omni

    Install following the official installation documentation for your environment, as the README's getting-started links direct.

    # Follow https://vllm-omni.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getting_started/installation/ — see README
  3. Serve a model

    Start the OpenAI-compatible server for a supported model and send it a request, per the docs quickstart and deployment recipes.

    # Launch a documented quickstart model server, then call its OpenAI-compatible endpoint — see README
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What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains vllm-omni?

The vllm-project, through the vllm-project/vllm-omni repository, with docs at docs.vllm.ai/projects/vllm-omni.

Is vllm-omni free to use?

Yes — the project is open source under the Apache-2.0 license as recorded for this listing. See the license terms for any conditions on redistribution.

Does vllm-omni need a paid API key?

No API key is needed — it is self-hosted inference software under Apache-2.0; your costs are GPU hardware and the models you download.

How does vLLM-Omni compare to vanilla vLLM?

Vanilla vLLM serves autoregressive text models superbly. vLLM-Omni keeps that core and adds omni-modality and diffusion models, heterogeneous outputs and staged pipelines — choose it when your models see, hear, generate media or act, not just chat.

How do I get started with vllm-omni?

Clone the repository (or use the documented installer), follow the install and configure steps on this page, and run the smallest real task first — serve one supported model from Hugging Face and call it through the OpenAI-compatible API with a multimodal request.

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