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Litgpt
20+ high-performance LLMs with recipes to pretrain, finetune and deploy at scale.
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About Litgpt
LitGPT is a Python framework providing 20+ pre-built high-performance LLM implementations with recipes for pretraining, finetuning, and deployment at scale. It abstracts away infrastructure complexity to let builders work directly with model training and inference pipelines.
Best for
Teams building or customizing LLMs at scale with access to compute resources
Use cases
- Finetuning open-source LLMs on custom datasets
- Pretraining models from scratch with distributed compute
- Deploying trained models to production environments
Notes
13,395 stars on GitHub. Last updated 2026-06-01. Licensed Apache-2.0.
Pros
- Covers full model lifecycle from pretraining through deployment
- 20+ vetted model implementations reduce setup time
- Built on Lightning for distributed training out of the box
Cons
- Requires Python and familiarity with training workflows
- Community-maintained, not backed by commercial support
- Learning curve steeper than inference-only tools
Key facts
What we have checked
- Latest version
- 0.5.13 (released 29 June 2026)
- GitHub stars
- 13,686
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Stars and usage
How Litgpt is growing
13,395 to 13,686
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Changelog
What changed
Released 0.5.13
Released 0.5.12
Released 0.5.11
Released 0.5.10
Released 0.5.9
Released 0.5.8
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Released 0.5.6
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