TokenSpeed is a speed-of-light LLM inference engine designed for **agentic workloads**, with TensorRT-LLM-level performance and vLLM-level usability. Our goal is to be the most performant inference engine for production agentic workloads.
Core components:
- **Modeling layer**: local-SPMD design with a static compiler that generates
collective communication from module-boundary placement annotations, so users
do not hand-write parallelism logic.
- **Scheduler**: C++ control plane and Python execution plane. Request
lifecycle, KV cache ownership, and overlap timing are encoded as a
finite-state machine, with safe KV resource reuse enforced by the type system at compile time.
- **Kernels**: pluggable, layered kernel system with a portable public API and
a centralized registry including one of the fastest **MLA**
(Multi-head Latent Attention) implementations on Blackwell for agentic workload.
- **Entrypoint**: SMG-integrated AsyncLLM for low-overhead CPU-side request
handling.
## News
- [2026/06] Deep dive into the design and optimization of TokenSpeed-Kernel. [[blog](https://pytorch.org/blog/lightseek-tokenspeed-kernel/)]
- [2026/05] 🚀 TokenSpeed hits 580 TPS on Qwen3.5-397B-A17B for agentic workloads. [[blog](https://pytorch.org/blog/up-to-580tps-new-speed-record-of-qwen3-5-397b-a17b-on-gpu-for-agentic-workloads-with-tokenspeed/)]
- [2026/05] TokenSpeed announced — a speed-of-light LLM inference engine for agentic workloads. [[blog](https://lightseek.org/blog/lightseek-tokenspeed.html)]
## Blogs and Talks
For technical blogs, conference talks, and engineering articles from LightSeek Foundation, visit the [LightSeek Blog](https://lightseek.org/blog/).
## Performance Comparison
## Documentation
Start here:
- [Docs Index](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/)
- [Getting Started](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/guides/getting-started)
- [Launching a Server](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/guides/launching)
- [Model Recipes](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/recipes/models)
- [Server Parameters](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/configuration/server)
- [Compatible Parameters](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/configuration/compatible-parameters)
- [Parallelism](https://lightseek.org/tokenspeed/serving/parallelism)