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KAITO vs KServe vs kube-llmops: Which Kubernetes LLM Platform Should You Choose in 2026?

KAITO vs KServe vs kube-llmops

If you are running LLMs on Kubernetes in 2026, you have probably encountered three main options: KAITO (Microsoft/CNCF Sandbox), KServe (CNCF Incubating), and kube-llmops.

TL;DR Comparison

Feature kube-llmops KAITO KServe
AI Gateway Built-in (LiteLLM) No No
LLM Tracing Langfuse v3 No No
Grafana Dashboards 11 pre-built No No
KEDA Autoscaling Yes No Partial
SSO Keycloak OIDC No No
RAG Dify + pgvector + TEI No No
Fine-tuning LLaMA-Factory + Argo Basic No
Cloud-Agnostic Yes Azure-only Yes

kube-llmops is the only platform that gives you a complete LLM operations stack in one Helm install: model serving (vLLM, llama.cpp), AI gateway, observability, RAG, fine-tuning, SSO, and autoscaling.

https://github.com/GaeaRuiW/kube-llmops

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