Ollama vs. vLLM: A deep dive into performance benchmarking

2 · Red Hat · Aug. 8, 2025, 7:39 a.m.
Key takeawaysOllama and vLLM serve different purposes, and that's a good thing for the AI community: Ollama is ideal for local development and prototyping, while vLLM is built for high-performance production deployments.vLLM outperforms Ollama at scale: vLLM delivers significantly higher throughput (achieving a peak of 793 TPS compared to Ollama's 41 TPS) and lower P99 latency (80 ms vs. 673 ms at peak throughput). vLLM delivers higher throughput and lower latency across all concurrency levels(1...