vllm/docs/deployment/frameworks/chatbox.md

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Chatbox

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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.

vllm serve qwen/Qwen1.5-0.5B-Chat

• Download and install Chatbox desktop.

• 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

• Go to Just chat, and start to chat: