Xinference Alternatives
Open-source inference engine for 300+ open models, plus a hosted API and managed GPUs served from Australia
Xinference is an Apache-2.0 inference engine for serving open models behind an OpenAI-compatible API, developed in the open at xorbitsai/inference (about 9,600 GitHub stars).
Explore 99 alternatives to Xinference across 2 categories. Updated October 2026.
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NanoGPT
One OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models, with text billed at provider list prices
Pay per prompt, from $0.10
System1 Models
Hosted open decision models behind a Jev-compatible API, with an EU-only tier and a lower-cost Peer-to-Peer tier
$0.032 per 1M input tokens (s1-fast), output free
Lium
GPU rental marketplace where independent providers list verified NVIDIA hosts, billed per second
$5 signup credit, then from $0.12/GPU-hour (RTX A4000, Oct 2026)
Top Xinference alternatives at a glance
- llama.cpp. LLM inference in C/C++ with broad hardware support and aggressive quantization
- vLLM. High-throughput LLM inference engine with PagedAttention for efficient GPU memory usage
- Modular. We rebuilt the modern AI software stack, from the ground up, to boost any AI pipeline, on any hardware.
- Roofline. Edge AI deployment stack: an MLIR/IREE compiler and device runtime for CPUs, GPUs and NPUs
- Vynaris. OpenAI-compatible gateway that routes each request to a smaller model and returns a cost receipt
Compare Xinference with its alternatives
| Product | Pricing Model | Free Tier | Open Source | Hosting | HQ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xinference | Freemium | ✓ | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore |
| llama.cpp | Free | ✓ | ✓ MIT | Self-hosted | — |
| vLLM | Free | ✓ | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Modular | Freemium | ✓ | — | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Roofline | Subscription | — | — | Self-hosted | ๐ฉ๐ช Germany |
| Vynaris | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐ฎ๐ณ India |
| Magnitude | Free | ✓ | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Self-hosted | — |
| SGLang | Free | — | ✓ APACHE-2.0 | Self-hosted | — |
| Project Zero | Free | ✓ | ✓ MIT | Self-hosted | — |
| KV Cache Store | — | ✓ | ✓ | — | — |
| DeepSeek | Pay-per-use | ✓ | ✓ MIT | Cloud | ๐จ๐ณ China |
| OpenAI | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Mistral | Freemium | — | ✓ APACHE2 | Cloud + Self-hosted | ๐ซ๐ท France |
| Replicate | Pay-per-use | — | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Anthropic Claude | Pay-per-use | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
| Google Gemini API | Freemium | ✓ | — | Cloud | ๐บ๐ธ United States |
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๐๏ธ Frameworks & Stacks
llama.cpp
LLM inference in C/C++ with broad hardware support and aggressive quantization
vLLM
High-throughput LLM inference engine with PagedAttention for efficient GPU memory usage
๐ค Inference APIs
vLLM
High-throughput LLM inference engine with PagedAttention for efficient GPU memory usage
Project Zero
CPU-only LLM inference engine in C with no runtime dependencies
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