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Make Your Mixture-of-Models Programmable.

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About

vLLM Semantic Router is a programmable routing layer for building Mixture-of-Models systems across heterogeneous LLM infrastructure. It evaluates request signals, user preferences, and application policies to select—or compose—the right model path for each request.

Use it to improve quality, cost, latency, privacy, and safety without hard-coding routing logic into applications.

Dimension	Fragmented today	With vLLM SR
Models	Models specialize in different work.	Compose personalized model paths.
Compute	GPUs, accelerators, edge, and cloud coexist.	Route across heterogeneous compute.
Location	Inference spans edge, private, and cloud.	Keep data within its boundaries.
Preference	"Best" changes by user and workload.	Make every preference executable.

Explore how it works →

Getting Started

Install

curl -fsSL https://vllm-sr.ai/install.sh | bash

For platform notes, detailed setup options, and troubleshooting, see the Installation Guide.

Online playground credentials

Username: love@vllm-sr.ai
Password: vllm-sr

Latest News

[2026/07/21] New Blog: Beyond a Single Model: Building Mixture-of-Models Systems with vLLM Semantic Router
[2026/06/29] New Blog: Micro-Agent: Beat Frontier Models with Collaboration inside Model API
[2026/06/16] New Blog: Beyond One Model: Fusion in vLLM Semantic Router
[2026/06/05] v0.3 Released: vLLM Semantic Router v0.3 Themis: From Signals to Stateful Production Routing

Earlier announcements

[2026/03/24] Vision Paper Released: The Workload-Router-Pool Architecture for LLM Inference Optimization
[2026/03/10] v0.2 Released: vLLM Semantic Router v0.2 Athena Release
[2026/02/27] White Paper Released: Signal Driven Decision Routing for Mixture-of-Modality Models
[2026/01/05] Iris v0.1 Released: vLLM Semantic Router v0.1 Iris: The First Major Release
[2025/12/16] Collaboration: AMD × vLLM Semantic Router: Building the System Intelligence Together
[2025/12/15] New Blog: Token-Level Truth: Real-Time Hallucination Detection for Production LLMs
[2025/11/19] New Blog: Signal-Decision Driven Architecture: Reshaping Semantic Routing at Scale
[2025/11/03] Paper Published: Category-Aware Semantic Caching for Heterogeneous LLM Workloads
[2025/10/27] New Blog: Scaling Semantic Routing with Extensible LoRA
[2025/10/12] Paper Accepted: When to Reason: Semantic Router for vLLM
[2025/10/08] Collaboration: vLLM Semantic Router with vLLM Production Stack Team.
[2025/09/01] Released the project: vLLM Semantic Router: Next Phase in LLM inference.

More announcements are available on the Blog and Publications pages.

Community

For questions, feedback, or to contribute, please join the #semantic-router channel in vLLM Slack.

Community Meetings

We host community meetings on the first and third Tuesday of each month to sync with contributors across different time zones:

First Tuesday of the month: 9:00-10:00 AM EST (accommodates US EST, EU, and Asia Pacific contributors)
Third Tuesday of the month: 1:00-2:00 PM EST (accommodates US EST and California contributors)
Meeting recordings: YouTube

Contributing

If you want to contribute, start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

For repository-native development workflow and validation commands, use AGENTS.md as the entrypoint and tools/agent/docs/README.md as the canonical index.

Citation

If you find Semantic Router helpful in your research or projects, please consider citing it:

@misc{semanticrouter2025,
  title={vLLM Semantic Router},
  author={vLLM Semantic Router Team},
  year={2025},
  howpublished={\url{https://github.com/vllm-project/semantic-router}},
}