vLLM Documentation
Official vLLM docs (sourced from github.com/vllm-project/vllm/docs).
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Topic Index
Getting Started
getting_started/quickstart.md— Quick start guide
Serving & API
serving/openai_compatible_server.md— OpenAI-compatible API serverserving/offline_inference.md— Offline batch inferenceserving/distributed_troubleshooting.md— Distributed serving troubleshootingserving/integrations/— Claude Code, LangChain, LlamaIndex integrations
Distributed & Parallel
serving/data_parallel_deployment.md— Data parallelismserving/expert_parallel_deployment.md— Expert parallelism (MoE)serving/context_parallel_deployment.md— Context parallelismserving/parallelism_scaling.md— Parallelism scaling guide
Features
features/quantization/— Quantization methods (AWQ, GPTQ, FP8, GGUF, INT4/8, etc.)features/speculative_decoding/— Speculative decoding (draft model, EAGLE, MTP, n-gram)features/tool_calling.md— Tool / function callingfeatures/structured_outputs.md— Structured JSON outputsfeatures/multimodal_inputs.md— Multimodal model inputsfeatures/lora.md— LoRA multi-adapter servingfeatures/reasoning_outputs.md— Reasoning / thinking outputsfeatures/automatic_prefix_caching.md— Automatic prefix caching (APC)features/disagg_prefill.md— Disaggregated prefillfeatures/sleep_mode.md— Sleep mode for memory saving
Models
models/supported_models.md— Full supported model listmodels/generative_models.md— Generative model guidemodels/pooling_models.md— Embedding / pooling models
Configuration
configuration/engine_args.md— Engine arguments referenceconfiguration/serve_args.md— Serve command argumentsconfiguration/env_vars.md— Environment variablesconfiguration/optimization.md— Optimization techniquesconfiguration/conserving_memory.md— Memory conservationconfiguration/model_resolution.md— Model resolution config
CLI
cli/serve.md—vllm servecommandcli/chat.md—vllm chatcommandcli/complete.md—vllm completecommandcli/run-batch.md—vllm run-batchcommand
Deployment
deployment/docker.md— Docker deploymentdeployment/k8s.md— Kubernetes deploymentdeployment/nginx.md— Nginx reverse proxy
Design & Architecture
design/arch_overview.md— Architecture overviewdesign/paged_attention.md— PagedAttention designdesign/prefix_caching.md— Prefix caching internalsdesign/cuda_graphs.md— CUDA graph optimizationdesign/fused_moe_modular_kernel.md— Fused MoE kernel designdesign/plugin_system.md— Plugin system
Usage & Troubleshooting
usage/troubleshooting.md— Troubleshooting guideusage/faq.md— Frequently asked questionsusage/v1_guide.md— v1 migration guide