TGI - Text Generation Inference - Install...

Text Generation Inference (TGI) has a very specific energy. It is not the newest kid in the inference street, but it is the one that already learned how production breaks - then baked those lessons into the defaults. If your goal is "serve an LLM behind HTTP and keep it running", TGI is a pragmatic piece of kit. If you are still weighing where to run models, this comparison of LLM hosting in 2026 pulls local, self-hosted, and cloud setups together so you can place TGI in context. A reality check