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Xinference

Serve language, embedding, reranking, image, audio, and multimodal models through unified APIs

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PricingFree
Free planYes
Free trialYes
APIYes
Open sourceYes
DeploymentSelf Hosted
Last verifiedAugust 1, 2026
Overview

Tool overview

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Summary

What is Xinference?

Xinference is an Apache-2.0 inference platform for running open models on laptops, servers, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed clusters. It provides OpenAI-compatible and native APIs across language, embedding, reranking, image, audio, and multimodal workloads.

Best fit

Best for

Teams self-hosting diverse open AI models behind compatible APIs

Audience

Who is it for?

ML engineersPlatform engineersAI application developersResearch teams
Recommendation

Decision note

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Capabilities

Key features

OpenAI-compatible and native inference APIs

Support for language, embedding, reranking, image, and audio models

Local, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed deployment

Community edition with enterprise options

Workflows

Use cases

Serve open models behind application APIs

Run local or private inference workloads

Deploy distributed GPU model services

Provide one endpoint layer for multiple model types

Strengths

Pros

  • Free Apache-2.0 community edition
  • Wide model and hardware coverage
  • Supports local, on-premises, and cloud infrastructure
Considerations

Limitations

Model weights have separate licenses and usage restrictions.

Operators are responsible for authentication, capacity, safety, privacy, and observability.

Cost

Pricing details

Pricing modelFree
Free planYes
Free trialYes
Pricing context

Billing options

Community Edition freeEnterprise features by contactUser-paid compute and infrastructure
Pricing context

Pricing note

Xinference Community Edition is free under Apache-2.0. Enterprise-centric features and support are available by contact. Users pay for their own compute, storage, networking, and operations.

Compatibility

Supported languages

  • English
Connectivity

Integrations

OpenAI SDKs

Python client

REST

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Hugging Face models

Specs

Technical details

PlatformsDesktop, API
Multilingual supportYes
Login requiredNo
Open sourceYes
LicenseApache-2.0
DeploymentSelf Hosted
CompanyXorbits
Current version2.5.0
Models / versionsLanguage models Embeddings Rerankers Image models Audio models Multimodal models
Editions / plansCommunity Edition Enterprise options
Data confidenceHigh
Last verifiedAugust 1, 2026
Documentation → Source code → Release notes → Data source →
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Xinference is an Apache-2.0 inference platform for running open models on laptops, servers, Docker, Kubernetes, and distributed clusters. It provides OpenAI-compatible and native APIs across language, embedding, reranking, image, audio, and multimodal workloads.
Teams self-hosting diverse open AI models behind compatible APIs
The listed pricing model for Xinference is free. Pricing can change, so users should verify the latest plan details on the official website.
Yes. The current profile indicates that a free trial is available.
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