GPUStack review

A GPU cluster manager for high-performance AI model serving (vLLM, SGLang) and on-demand SSH-accessible GPU instances.

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

5.9kGitHub stars
+53new stars, week of Oct 25
#26in Inference and training this week

GPUStack at a glance

Category: Inference and training
Website: gpustack.ai

Is GPUStack growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, GPUStack ranked #247 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #26 in Inference and training, with a momentum score of 38 out of 100.

New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).

Show the weekly numbers

New GitHub stars per week for GPUStack
Week of	New stars
Aug 9, 2026	32
Aug 16, 2026	51
Aug 23, 2026	38
Aug 30, 2026	40
Sep 6, 2026	74
Sep 13, 2026	46
Sep 20, 2026	38
Sep 27, 2026	27
Oct 4, 2026	31
Oct 11, 2026	37
Oct 18, 2026	41
Oct 25, 2026	53

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

GPUStack alternatives

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

Inference and training ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
Rank	Tool	Stars	Downloads/wk
#1	dsh-our-free-modeldsh-our-free-model is a dsh plugin that provides DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Kimi K3 and other models without login, sign-up or API key.	54.3k	–
#2	magpiemagpie is a local gateway and app that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use any provider's model.	26.9k	–
#3	StrataStrata is a local inference engine and app that runs large open models like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware with…	37.1k	–
#4	edge0edge0 is an open-source streaming inference framework that runs large sparse mixture-of-experts models on consumer hardware by streaming…	8.9k	–
#5	OmniRouteOmniRoute is an open-source AI gateway that routes requests across many model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with…	83.2k	106k
#6	CLIProxyAPICLIProxyAPI is a Go proxy server that exposes CLI coding accounts like Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI through OpenAI, Gemini and…	57.1k	–

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GPUStack FAQ

How popular is GPUStack?

GPUStack has 5.9k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 53 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 42 a week. That made it #26 among LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to GPUStack?

Other LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: dsh-our-free-model (#1), magpie (#2), Strata (#3), edge0 (#4), OmniRoute (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

GPUStack README badge

Maintainers can show the tool's weekly Board rank in their README:

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