7 Best LMCache Alternatives (Self-Hosted)

LMCache is an open-source KV cache engine that accelerates LLM serving with vLLM and SGLang by storing and reusing KV caches across requests. It delivers higher throughput, lower latency, and drastically reduced costs. LMCache Server introduces a production-grade, distributed KV cache service with a unified interface, prefix caching, semantic chunking, and elastic multi-GPU deployment, making long-context and multi-turn workloads dramatically faster and cheaper.