Best AI Model Serving Tools

Explore 22 AI model serving tools to find the perfect solution.

Model Serving

22 tools

Replicate

Hosted inference platform to run, fine-tune, and deploy AI models via API.

Hugging Face

AI platform and hub for hosting, sharing, and running models, datasets, and apps with enterprise options.

Hugging Face Spaces

A platform for hosting machine learning demo apps with support for GPU acceleration, Docker, and custom Python environments.

HUGS

Optimized, zero‐configuration inference microservices from Hugging Face designed to simplify and accelerate the deployment of open AI models via an OpenAI‐compatible API.

OpenVINO

OpenVINO™ is an open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference across various platforms. It supports models trained with popular frameworks and enhances performance for deep learning tasks in computer vision, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing.

Hugging Face Hub

The official Python client for the Hugging Face Hub, allowing users to interact with pre-trained models and datasets, manage repositories, and run inference on deployed models.

Inference Endpoints by Hugging Face

A fully managed inference deployment service that allows users to easily deploy models (such as Transformers and Diffusers) from the Hugging Face Hub on secure, compliant, and scalable infrastructure. It offers pay-as-you-go pricing and supports a variety of tasks including text generation, speech recognition, image generation, and more.

Text Generation Inference

A toolkit for serving and deploying large language models (LLMs) for text generation via Rust, Python, and gRPC. It is optimized for inference and supports tensor parallelism for efficient scaling.

vLLM

A high-throughput, memory-efficient library for large language model inference and serving that supports tensor and pipeline parallelism.

Xorbits Inference (Xinference)

Xorbits Inference (Xinference) is a versatile, open-source library that simplifies the deployment and serving of language models, speech recognition models, and multimodal models. It empowers developers to replace OpenAI GPT with any open-source model using minimal code changes, supporting cloud, on-premises, and self-hosted setups.

New API

An open-source, next-generation LLM gateway and AI asset management system that unifies various large model APIs (such as OpenAI and Claude) into a standardized interface. It provides a rich UI, multi-language support, online recharge, usage tracking, token grouping, model charging, and configurable reasoning effort, making it suitable for personal and enterprise internal management and distribution.

OpenVINO Toolkit

An open‐source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference on common platforms such as x86 CPUs and integrated Intel GPUs. It offers advanced model optimization features, quantization tools, pre-trained models, demos, and educational resources to simplify production deployment of AI models.

Text Embeddings Inference

An open-source, high-performance toolkit developed by Hugging Face for deploying and serving text embeddings and sequence classification models. It features dynamic batching, optimized transformers code (via Flash Attention and cuBLASLt), support for multiple model types, and lightweight docker images for fast inference.

OpenAI GPT 4.1 API

OpenAI's flagship GPT-4.1 API is a high-performance large language model optimized for real-world applications. It supports up to 1M tokens of context, offers improved coding, advanced instruction following, enhanced formatting, and robust long-context comprehension, making it ideal for building intelligent agents, processing extensive documents, and handling complex workflows.

GitHub Models

A feature that integrates top-tier AI models into your workflow for secure and scalable AI-powered project development.

OpenAI GPT-4o API

GPT‑4o is OpenAI’s most advanced flagship multimodal model that supports text, image, and audio inputs and outputs, offering real-time responsiveness, a 1M token context window via API, and high performance across reasoning, math, and coding tasks. It is ideal for applications such as real-time voice assistants, interactive multimodal document Q&A, and advanced code generation.

ai-gateway

ai-gateway is an open-source API gateway that orchestrates AI model requests from multiple providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini). It includes features such as guardrails, cost control, custom endpoints, and detailed tracing (using spans), making it a backend tool for managing and routing AI API calls.

Replicate Playground

A web platform that allows users to experiment with, compare, and rapidly prototype AI models via API calls.

Edge AI Sizing Tool

A tool to assist in sizing and planning deployments for edge AI systems, complete with Docker Compose integration.

GitHub Models

GitHub Models is an official suite of developer tools offered by GitHub. It provides a model catalog, prompt management, and quantitative evaluation capabilities to help developers test, compare, evaluate, and integrate AI models directly into their repositories. It supports the entire lifecycle from prototyping to scaling in enterprise settings.

OVHcloud AI Endpoints Beta

A beta service from OVHcloud that provides secure, token-authenticated API endpoints to access a curated list of open-source AI models. It allows developers to integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities—including LLMs, vision models, and more—into their applications, leveraging OVHcloud GPU infrastructure and offering detailed usage metrics and documentation.

AI-Playground

A tool for easily adding and installing LLM models using Hugging Face IDs and additional features such as image resolution scaling.