Xinference Review — Self-Hosted AI Tool
Our review of Xinference — features, strengths, and trade-offs.
Xinference (Xorbits Inference) is a powerful open-source platform for deploying and running large language models, embedding models, and multimodal models on your own infrastructure. With 9k+ GitHub stars, Xinference provides a unified API for serving models from Hugging Face, ModelScope, and custom checkpoints. Key features include distributed serving across multiple machines, a built-in web UI for model management, full OpenAI-compatible API endpoints, GPU and CPU support, and built-in quantization. Simply change one line of code to swap between GPT-4 and any open-source model, making it ideal for development, testing, and production deployments.