Hugging Face TGI Has a Free API — Production-Grade LLM Inference Server

Text Generation Inference (TGI) is Hugging Face's production-grade inference server for LLMs. It powers the Hugging Face Inference API and is used by companies like IBM, Intel, and Deutsche Telekom. Free, open source, optimized for throughput. Run any Hugging Face model with a single Docker command. Why Use TGI? Blazing fast — continuous batching, FlashAttention, tensor parallelism OpenAI-compatible — drop-in replacement for OpenAI API Any HF model — Llama, Mistral, Falcon, StarCoder, and 100K+ models Production features — token streaming, quantization, multi-GPU support Structured output — JSON schema enforcement via grammar Quick Setup 1. Run with Docker # Run Mistral 7B docker run --gpus all -p 8080:80 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/data \ ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference:latest \ --model-id mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 # Run Llama 3.1 8B (needs ~16GB VRAM) docker run --gpus all -p 8080:80 \ -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/data \ ghcr.io/huggingface/text-generation-inference