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Standardized Distributed Generative and Predictive AI Inference Platform for Scalable, Multi-Framework Deployment on Kubernetes

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

KServe at a glance

Category
Inference and training
Website
kserve.github.io/website

Is KServe growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, KServe ranked #315 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #37 in Inference and training, with a momentum score of 29 out of 100. Its main package had 13k downloads that week, +8% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for KServe12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 20, 22, 27, 19, 27, 88, 32, 69, 34, 26, 31, 26 new stars, an average of 35 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
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 KServe
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 202620
Aug 16, 202622
Aug 23, 202627
Aug 30, 202619
Sep 6, 202627
Sep 13, 202688
Sep 20, 202632
Sep 27, 202669
Oct 4, 202634
Oct 11, 202626
Oct 18, 202631
Oct 25, 202626

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.

KServe 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
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1dsh-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–
#2magpiemagpie is a local gateway and app that lets coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI use any provider's model.26.9k–
#3StrataStrata is a local inference engine and app that runs large open models like Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on consumer hardware with…37.1k–
#4edge0edge0 is an open-source streaming inference framework that runs large sparse mixture-of-experts models on consumer hardware by streaming…8.9k–
#5OmniRouteOmniRoute is an open-source AI gateway that routes requests across many model providers through one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, with…83.2k106k
#6CLIProxyAPICLIProxyAPI is a Go proxy server that exposes CLI coding accounts like Codex, Claude Code and Gemini CLI through OpenAI, Gemini and…57.1k–

All LLM inference and training tools, ranked

KServe FAQ

How popular is KServe?

KServe has 6.2k GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 26 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 35 a week. Its main package had 13k downloads that week, +8% against its own 4-week average. That made it #37 among LLM inference and training tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to KServe?

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

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

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