ray alternatives

Tools that could take the place of ray, ranked by the stacks builders put them in rather than by stars alone.

Other runtimes in the runchr registry that do the work of ray — a tool somebody pairs with it ranks above a more popular stranger. Read the ray page or browse every runtimes.

  • skypilotRuntimesdoes the same work10.8k

    Run and manage AI workloads across clouds, Kubernetes, and Slurm.

  • planoRuntimesdoes the same work7.1k

    AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps with LLM routing.

  • rtkRuntimesdoes the same work85.8k

    CLI proxy that compresses shell command output before it reaches an LLM.

  • caddyRuntimesdoes the same work78.9k

    Extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS.

  • TensorRT-LLMRuntimesdoes the same work15.0k

    Optimized inference runtime for LLMs and visual gen models on NVIDIA GPUs.

  • OpenLLMRuntimesdoes the same work12.6k

    Self-host open-source LLMs as OpenAI-compatible API endpoints.

  • BentoMLRuntimesdoes the same work8.9k

    Python framework for serving AI models and LLM apps as production APIs.

  • dynamoRuntimesdoes the same work8.5k

    Datacenter-scale distributed inference serving framework for LLMs and diffusion

  • lmdeployRuntimesdoes the same work8.1k

    Toolkit for compressing, deploying, and serving LLMs with TurboMind and PyTorch

  • kserveRuntimesdoes the same work6.2k

    Kubernetes platform for deploying and serving generative and predictive AI

  • gpustackRuntimesdoes the same work6.0k

    GPU cluster manager that orchestrates vLLM, SGLang, and TensorRT-LLM for model

  • FastDeployRuntimesdoes the same work3.7k

    PaddlePaddle inference and serving toolkit for LLMs and VLMs.