sgl-project--sglang/docs_new/index.mdx

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title: Welcome to SGLang
description: High-performance serving framework for large language and multimodal models.
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  - llm serving
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  - inference runtime
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  <Card title="Performance & Runtime" icon="arrow-trend-up">
    Designed for low-latency, high-throughput inference with RadixAttention, prefix caching, and multi-GPU parallelism.
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  Broad support for Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more. Compatible with Hugging
  Face and OpenAI APIs.
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  Native support across <a href="./docs/hardware-platforms/overview">Hardware Platforms</a>
  including NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Xeon, Google TPU, and Ascend NPU accelerators.
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    Open-source with widespread adoption, powering 400k+ GPUs and integrated with major RL frameworks.
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SGLang powers large-scale production deployments, generating trillions of tokens each day across more than 400,000 GPUs worldwide. It is hosted under the non-profit open-source organization [LMSYS](https://lmsys.org/about/).

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## Get Started

SGLang is an inference framework meant for production level serving.
It is designed to deliver low-latency and high-throughput inference across a wide range of setups, from a single GPU to large distributed clusters.

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  Install SGLang with pip, from source, or via Docker on your preferred hardware platform.
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<Card title="Quickstart" icon="zap" href="./docs/get-started/quickstart">
  Launch your first model server and send requests in minutes with OpenAI-compatible APIs.
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## News and latest blogs

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          {"DSpark in SGLang: Speculative Decoding with Confidence-Driven, Variable-Length Verification"}
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          {"July 6, 2026"}
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          {"Agent-Assisted SGLang Development: An Initial Exploration"}
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          {"July 2, 2026"}
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          {"Improving DeepEP MoE Load Balance in SGLang with Waterfill and LPLB"}
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          {"June 26, 2026"}
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          {"June 17, 2026"}
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          {"June 17, 2026"}
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          {"June 15, 2026"}
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## Learn more and join the community

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