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Open-source LLM serving stack for a small startup

A public TESRAC example report for choosing an economical open-source LLM serving stack without overbuilding infrastructure too early.

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Public Fallback Report

Open-source LLM serving stack for a small startup

A public TESRAC example report for choosing an economical open-source LLM serving stack without overbuilding infrastructure too early.

Public fallback brief

  • Small teams should optimize for operational simplicity before peak throughput.
  • vLLM, LiteLLM, Ollama, TGI, and managed fallback providers each solve different parts of the serving path.
  • A thin gateway plus one well-understood inference backend is usually easier to operate than a broad platform stack.

Caveats

  • GPU availability, model size, latency target, and batch pattern can reverse the best choice.
  • Open-source serving still requires security, observability, and rollback discipline.

Source quality and freshness

Prioritize official project documentation, benchmark methodology, issue activity, and deployment guides.

Rerun before procurement because serving frameworks and model runtimes change rapidly.

Example next steps

  1. Select one primary model class and latency target.
  1. Run a one-week load test with real prompts.
  1. Add fallback routing only after the baseline path is stable.