Self-Hosted Serving Selection - Matching Engine to Hardware and Scale
Engine selection is a function of hardware, scale, and ecosystem - not a leaderboard read. Four engines dominate self-hosted inference in 2026: llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, with TGI trailing in maintenance mode. llama.cpp is fastest on…
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