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# Chatbox
[Chatbox](https://github.com/chatboxai/chatbox) is a desktop client for LLMs, available on Windows, Mac, Linux.
It allows you to deploy a large language model (LLM) server with vLLM as the backend, which exposes OpenAI-compatible endpoints.
## Prerequisites
- Setup vLLM environment
## Deploy
- Start the vLLM server with the supported chat completion model, e.g.
```bash
vllm serve qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat
```
- Download and install [Chatbox desktop](https://chatboxai.app/en#download).
- On the bottom left of settings, Add Custom Provider
- API Mode: `OpenAI API Compatible`
- Name: vllm
- API Host: `http://{vllm server host}:{vllm server port}/v1`
- API Path: `/chat/completions`
- Model: `qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat`
![](../../assets/deployment/chatbox-settings.png)
- Go to `Just chat`, and start to chat:
![](../../assets/deployment/chatbox-chat.png)