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Text Generation Inference

Free

Hugging Face production server for LLM inference with continuous batching on GPUs.

Open SourceSelf-hostedRust SDKPython SDK

Tool Info

Categories
Serving
Developer
Hugging Face
License
Open Source
Official Website
huggingface.co/docs/text-generation-inference
Repository
huggingface/text-generation-inference
Official Docs

Overview

TGI is Hugging Face's optimized inference server for transformer models on GPUs.

It uses continuous batching and tensor parallelism for production throughput.

Default choice for serving HF models at scale.

Features

  • Continuous batching
  • Tensor parallelism
  • Quantization
  • OpenAI-compatible API

Pricing

Free tier available
Free (open source)

Pros

  • Production-grade throughput
  • HF ecosystem native
  • Rust core performance

Best For

Production GPU servingHugging Face model deploymentHigh-throughput APIs

When NOT to Use

  • GPU required
  • Limited model support vs vLLM

Typical Users

ML engineersHugging Face users

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Ollama
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LM Studio
Desktop app for running local LLMs with a chat interface.

Alternatives

vLLM
vLLM leads in throughput benchmarks; TGI is Hugging Face's official serving stack with tight Hub integration.
SGLang
Fast structured generation and serving runtime for LLMs.
Ollama
Local model runner with simple command and HTTP interface.

Tags

#serving#huggingface#gpu

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