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Fast structured generation and serving for LLMs with RadixAttention prefix caching. Use for JSON/regex outputs, constrained decoding, agentic workflows with tool calls, or when you need 5× faster inference than vLLM with prefix sharing. Powers 300,000+ GPUs at xAI, AMD, NVIDIA, and LinkedIn.
Install
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SGLang
High-performance serving framework for LLMs and VLMs with RadixAttention for automatic prefix caching.
When to use SGLang
Use SGLang when:
- Need structured outputs (JSON, regex, grammar)
- Building agents with repeated prefixes (system prompts, tools)
- Agentic workflows with function calling
- Multi-turn conversations with shared context
- Need faster JSON decoding (3× vs standard)
Use vLLM instead when:
- Simple text generation without structure
- Don't need prefix caching
- Want mature, widely-tested production system
Use TensorRT-LLM instead when:
- Maximum single-request latency (no batching needed)
- NVIDIA-only deployment
- Need FP8/INT4 quantization on H100
Quick start
Installation
Launch server
Basic inference
Structured JSON output
RadixAttention (Key Innovation)
What it does: Automatically caches and reuses common prefixes across requests.
Performance:
- 5× faster for agentic workloads with shared system prompts
- 10× faster for few-shot prompting with repeated examples
- Zero configuration - works automatically
How it works:
- Builds radix tree of all processed tokens
- Automatically detects shared prefixes
- Reuses KV cache for matching prefixes
- Only computes new tokens
Example (Agent with system prompt):
Structured generation patterns
JSON with schema
Regex-constrained generation
Grammar-based generation
Agent workflows with function calling
Performance benchmarks
RadixAttention speedup
Few-shot prompting (10 examples in prompt):
- vLLM: 2.5 sec/request
- SGLang: 0.25 sec/request (10× faster)
- Throughput: 4× higher
Agent workflows (1000-token system prompt):
- vLLM: 1.8 sec/request
- SGLang: 0.35 sec/request (5× faster)
JSON decoding:
- Standard: 45 tok/s
- SGLang: 135 tok/s (3× faster)
Throughput (Llama 3-8B, A100)
| Workload | vLLM | SGLang | Speedup | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple generation | 2500 tok/s | 2800 tok/s | 1.12× | |
| Few-shot (10 examples) | 500 tok/s | 5000 tok/s | 10× | |
| Agent (tool calls) | 800 tok/s | 4000 tok/s | 5× | |
| JSON output | 600 tok/s | 2400 tok/s | 4× |
Multi-turn conversations
Advanced features
Speculative decoding
Multi-modal (vision models)
Batching and parallel requests
OpenAI-compatible API
Supported models
Text models:
- Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 3.1, Llama 3.2
- Mistral, Mixtral
- Qwen, Qwen2, QwQ
- DeepSeek-V2, DeepSeek-V3
- Gemma, Phi-3
Vision models:
- LLaVA, LLaVA-OneVision
- Phi-3-Vision
- Qwen2-VL
100+ models from HuggingFace
Hardware support
NVIDIA: A100, H100, L4, T4 (CUDA 11.8+) AMD: MI300, MI250 (ROCm 6.0+) Intel: Xeon with GPU (coming soon) Apple: M1/M2/M3 via MPS (experimental)
References
- [Structured Generation Guide](references/structured-generation.md) - JSON schemas, regex, grammars, validation
- [RadixAttention Deep Dive](references/radix-attention.md) - How it works, optimization, benchmarks
- [Production Deployment](references/deployment.md) - Multi-GPU, monitoring, autoscaling
Resources
- GitHub: https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang
- Docs: https://sgl-project.github.io/
- Paper: RadixAttention (arXiv:2312.07104)
- Discord: https://discord.gg/sglang
Agent operating procedure
- Check the environment. Confirm hardware, framework and server versions, model format, and expected load.
- Pin down the inputs. Confirm formats, identifiers and parameters from the data or the user. Ask rather than guess any value that changes the result.
- Run a small version first. Serve or log a single request or run end to end before scaling.
- Execute the full task using the instructions and references above.
- Validate the result. Measure latency, throughput and output correctness against a reference; check resource usage and costs.
- Report. State what was run (versions, commands, parameters), what was checked, and what is still uncertain.
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