Xorbits Inference provides a single-command setup to serve language, speech, and multimodal models via Xinference. It supports self-hosting with Docker, Kubernetes, and pip-based installation, and exposes OpenAI-compatible RESTful API, RPC, CLI, and WebUI interfaces.
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What it is
Xorbits Inference (Xinference) is a library to serve language, speech recognition, and multimodal models. It aims to let users deploy and serve models with a single command.
How it works
The project enables a unified inference API for various models and supports heterogeneous hardware (GPUs/CPUs) and multiple interfaces (OpenAI-compatible RESTful API, RPC, CLI, WebUI). It includes built-in model integrations and supports distributed deployment across devices.
Getting started
Docker
docker run --name xinference -d -p 9997:9997 -e XINFERENCE_HOME=/data -v </on/your/host>:/data --gpus all xprobe/xinference:latest xinference-local -H 0.0.0.0
K8s via helm
# add repo
helm repo add xinference https://xorbitsai.github.io/xinference-helm-charts
# update indexes and query xinference versions
helm repo update xinference
helm search repo xinference/xinference --devel --versions
# install xinference
helm install xinference xinference/xinference -n xinference --version 0.0.1-v<xinference_release_version>
Quick Start
pip install "xinference[all]"
$ xinference-local
Check docs for running locally via web UI, curl, CLI, or Python client.
Recent releases
- v3.1.0 (2026-07-31): New features include a SSO/OIDC login button for the login page.
- v3.1.0.rc1 (2026-07-29): New features include a SSO/OIDC login button.
- v3.0.0 (2026-07-19): Frontend switched to Next.js app.
- v2.12.0 (2026-07-04): Gate model remote-code execution behind a config switch.
- v2.11.0 (2026-06-19): UI updates and feature additions.
Traction
Stars: 9477 Forks: 851 Open issues: 51
Behind the repo
Linked to enterprise features and integrations with Xagent, Dify, FastGPT, RAGFlow, and MaxKB.
Caveats
License: Apache-2.0 Created: 2023-06-14 Last push: 2026-08-04






