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FlashInfer

FlashInfer project

FlashInfer is a kernel library and generator for LLM inference, exposing unified APIs for attention, GEMM and mixture-of-experts operations over several backend implementations including FlashAttention-2 and -3, cuDNN, CUTLASS and TensorRT-LLM. Kernels are compiled just in time for the shapes a workload actually uses.

Verified 2026-08-18 via the GitHub API and the LICENSE body.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI)
source
public
core-gated
ungated

Apache-2.0 license body confirmed. The repository is public and unarchived and builds the whole product, and the README describes no paid tier, enterprise edition or license-gated build beside it, so source is public and the core ungated.

Adoption

4 high confidence
4.0

4,830,965 PyPI downloads of `flashinfer-python` in the trailing 30 days, which lands in the 1M-10M band of the software usage scale, level 4.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Banded on the category feature matrix as performance-critical kernel and operator library. Placed two bands below the apache-tvm anchor, on a matrix that bands on how much of the model-to-hardware transformation pipeline a product performs, over how many inputs and targets.

Verified 2026-08-18