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KubeAI
AI Inference Operator for Kubernetes. The easiest way to serve ML models in production. Supports VLMs, LLMs, embeddings, and speech-to-text.
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About KubeAI
KubeAI is an open-source Kubernetes operator that deploys and serves ML models including VLMs, LLMs, embeddings, and speech-to-text. It automates model serving on Kubernetes clusters using a custom resource definition and handles scaling, resource allocation, and inference requests.
Best for
Teams already running Kubernetes who want a straightforward way to serve multiple model types in production.
Use cases
- Deploy and serve large language models on existing Kubernetes infrastructure
- Run embedding models for vector search pipelines in production
- Serve speech-to-text models alongside other AI workloads in a unified cluster
Notes
1,201 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Simplifies ML model deployment with native Kubernetes integration
- Supports a wide range of model types from a single operator
- Active open-source community with over 1,200 GitHub stars
Cons
- Requires existing Kubernetes expertise and cluster management
- Limited to models that fit the operator's supported formats
- Community-driven project may have slower feature updates than commercial alternatives
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- helm-chart-models-0.24.0 (released 7 Oct 2026)
- GitHub stars
- 1,267
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Stars and usage
How KubeAI is growing
1,201 to 1,267
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Sources
Where this comes from
- GitHubOfficial
- github api via nightly crawl, recovered from git history 20e874270887c1008f860ee0198e461a23c9e438Registry
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Changelog
What changed
Released helm-chart-models-0.24.0
Released helm-chart-kubeai-0.24.0
Released 0.24.0
Released 0.23.5
Released 0.23.4
Released helm-chart-models-0.23.5
Released helm-chart-kubeai-0.23.5
Released helm-chart-models-0.23.4
Released helm-chart-kubeai-0.23.4
Released 0.23.3
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A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
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