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SGLang

RadixAttention serving runtime favored for reasoning/agents

SGLang is a high-performance serving runtime whose RadixAttention prefix-cache reuse makes it a favorite for agentic and structured-output workloads; DeepSeek and xAI publicly run large-scale serving on it. It competes head-to-head with vLLM and often leads on throughput for shared-prefix agent traffic in 2025-2026.

Core tech

RadixAttention prefix caching

Notable users

DeepSeek, xAI

How it fits the stack

SGLang with what it depends on (above) and what it feeds (below). The figure renders as a crawlable diagram and upgrades to an interactive 3D graph as it scrolls into view.

depends onusesusesusesSGLangLabsCUDA / software moatchokepointDeepSeek-V3 / R1KV-cache & inferencememory tieringxAI (capital raises)
SGLangDepends on ↑Feeds ↓

SGLang in the AI stack. SGLang with its immediate upstream dependencies (top) and downstream dependents (bottom) in the AI value chain. Hover a node in 3D, or read the full relationships below.

Graph data (text) — 5 entities, 4 relationships
  • SGLangdepends onCUDA / software moat
  • DeepSeek-V3 / R1usesSGLang
  • KV-cache & inference memory tieringusesSGLang
  • xAI (capital raises)usesSGLang