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recipe-buddyvsvLLM

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

recipe-buddyvLLM
Score44/10091/100
Rank in category#15 of 18 in Recipe Management#3 of 25 in LLM Inference
GitHub stars27795 833
Stars, last 30 days+0+3 189
Stable releases, 12 months014
Latest release—v0.32.0 · 17 Oct 2026
SetupEasyModerate
Official Docker imageYesYes
LicenseGPL-3.0Apache-2.0
Main languageTypescriptPython

Which one should you pick?

vLLM scores 91/100 against 44/100 for recipe-buddy, so it is the safer default.

vLLM ships more often: 14 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for recipe-buddy.

If you want the quickest setup, recipe-buddy is easier to run; vLLM needs more configuration.

vLLM is growing faster right now (+3 189 stars in 30 days).

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