# SGLang: fast inference framework for LLMs and multimodal models, README overview

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The README presents SGLang as a high-performance serving framework for language, vision and diffusion models.

Source: https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang

What it supplies: The README presents SGLang as a high-performance serving framework for language, vision and diffusion models.

Useful for: - Serve LLMs at scale for agentic workloads.
- Run RL rollouts against served models.

First action: - Pull the Docker image, or install with uv.
- Launch your model following the README next step.

Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no hardware requirements; the uv install allows pre-release dependencies.

- The uv install needs --prerelease=allow.
- Hardware support is described in other docs not read.

Source-documented: a badge names Apache 2.0. Models you serve carry their own licences.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on title, intro, get-started and licence badge README text only; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sgl-project/sglang/8920463c90c81127d9413f093240aeba17983f3a/README.md ; 9472 bytes ; sha256 a7654a48a8cd08c824e4445cb906405704148a3c55fb84362c7071d27397303c ; 5 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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