# Benchmarking vLLM
This README guides you through running benchmark tests with the extensive
datasets supported on vLLM. It’s a living document, updated as new features and datasets
become available.
## Dataset Overview
| Dataset |
Online |
Offline |
Data Path |
| ShareGPT |
✅ |
✅ |
wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered/resolve/main/ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json |
| BurstGPT |
✅ |
✅ |
wget https://github.com/HPMLL/BurstGPT/releases/download/v1.1/BurstGPT_without_fails_2.csv |
| Sonnet |
✅ |
✅ |
Local file: benchmarks/sonnet.txt |
| Random |
✅ |
✅ |
synthetic |
| HuggingFace-VisionArena |
✅ |
✅ |
lmarena-ai/VisionArena-Chat |
| HuggingFace-InstructCoder |
✅ |
✅ |
likaixin/InstructCoder |
| HuggingFace-Other |
✅ |
✅ |
lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data, Aeala/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered |
✅: supported
🟡: Partial support
🚧: to be supported
**Note**: HuggingFace dataset's `dataset-name` should be set to `hf`
---
## Example - Online Benchmark
First start serving your model
```bash
vllm serve NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B --disable-log-requests
```
Then run the benchmarking script
```bash
# download dataset
# wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered/resolve/main/ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
--backend vllm \
--model NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B \
--endpoint /v1/completions \
--dataset-name sharegpt \
--dataset-path /ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json \
--num-prompts 10
```
If successful, you will see the following output
```
============ Serving Benchmark Result ============
Successful requests: 10
Benchmark duration (s): 5.78
Total input tokens: 1369
Total generated tokens: 2212
Request throughput (req/s): 1.73
Output token throughput (tok/s): 382.89
Total Token throughput (tok/s): 619.85
---------------Time to First Token----------------
Mean TTFT (ms): 71.54
Median TTFT (ms): 73.88
P99 TTFT (ms): 79.49
-----Time per Output Token (excl. 1st token)------
Mean TPOT (ms): 7.91
Median TPOT (ms): 7.96
P99 TPOT (ms): 8.03
---------------Inter-token Latency----------------
Mean ITL (ms): 7.74
Median ITL (ms): 7.70
P99 ITL (ms): 8.39
==================================================
```
### VisionArena Benchmark for Vision Language Models
```bash
# need a model with vision capability here
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct --disable-log-requests
```
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
--backend openai-chat \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path lmarena-ai/VisionArena-Chat \
--hf-split train \
--num-prompts 1000
```
### InstructCoder Benchmark with Speculative Decoding
``` bash
VLLM_USE_V1=1 vllm serve meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct \
--speculative-model "[ngram]" \
--ngram_prompt_lookup_min 2 \
--ngram-prompt-lookup-max 5 \
--num_speculative_tokens 5
```
``` bash
python3 benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
--model meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path likaixin/InstructCoder \
--num-prompts 2048
```
### Other HuggingFaceDataset Examples
```bash
vllm serve Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct --disable-log-requests
```
**`lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data`**
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
--backend openai-chat \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data \
--hf-split train \
--hf-subset "chart2text(cauldron)" \
--num-prompts 10
```
**`Aeala/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered`**
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_serving.py \
--backend openai-chat \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path Aeala/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered \
--hf-split train \
--num-prompts 10
```
---
## Example - Offline Throughput Benchmark
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--model NousResearch/Hermes-3-Llama-3.1-8B \
--dataset-name sonnet \
--dataset-path vllm/benchmarks/sonnet.txt \
--num-prompts 10
```
If successful, you will see the following output
```
Throughput: 7.15 requests/s, 4656.00 total tokens/s, 1072.15 output tokens/s
Total num prompt tokens: 5014
Total num output tokens: 1500
```
### VisionArena Benchmark for Vision Language Models
``` bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--backend vllm-chat \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path lmarena-ai/VisionArena-Chat \
--num-prompts 1000 \
--hf-split train
```
The `num prompt tokens` now includes image token counts
```
Throughput: 2.55 requests/s, 4036.92 total tokens/s, 326.90 output tokens/s
Total num prompt tokens: 14527
Total num output tokens: 1280
```
### InstructCoder Benchmark with Speculative Decoding
``` bash
VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn \
VLLM_USE_V1=1 \
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--dataset-name=hf \
--dataset-path=likaixin/InstructCoder \
--model=meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B-Instruct \
--input-len=1000 \
--output-len=100 \
--num-prompts=2048 \
--async-engine \
--speculative-model="[ngram]" \
--ngram_prompt_lookup_min=2 \
--ngram-prompt-lookup-max=5 \
--num_speculative_tokens=5
```
```
Throughput: 104.77 requests/s, 23836.22 total tokens/s, 10477.10 output tokens/s
Total num prompt tokens: 261136
Total num output tokens: 204800
```
### Other HuggingFaceDataset Examples
**`lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data`**
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--backend vllm-chat \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path lmms-lab/LLaVA-OneVision-Data \
--hf-split train \
--hf-subset "chart2text(cauldron)" \
--num-prompts 10
```
**`Aeala/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered`**
```bash
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--model Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct \
--backend vllm-chat \
--dataset-name hf \
--dataset-path Aeala/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered \
--hf-split train \
--num-prompts 10
```
### Benchmark with LoRA Adapters
``` bash
# download dataset
# wget https://huggingface.co/datasets/anon8231489123/ShareGPT_Vicuna_unfiltered/resolve/main/ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json
python3 vllm/benchmarks/benchmark_throughput.py \
--model meta-llama/Llama-2-7b-hf \
--backend vllm \
--dataset_path /ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json \
--dataset_name sharegpt \
--num-prompts 10 \
--max-loras 2 \
--max-lora-rank 8 \
--enable-lora \
--lora-path yard1/llama-2-7b-sql-lora-test
```