README.md

LLaMA.cpp HTTP Server

Fast, lightweight, pure C/C++ HTTP server based on httplib, nlohmann::json and llama.cpp.

Set of LLM REST APIs and a simple web front end to interact with llama.cpp.

Features:

• LLM inference of F16 and quantum models on GPU and CPU
• OpenAI API compatible chat completions and embeddings routes
• Parallel decoding with multi-user support
• Continuous batching
• Multimodal (wip)
• Monitoring endpoints

The project is under active development, and we are looking for feedback and contributors.

Command line options:

• --threads N, -t N: Set the number of threads to use during generation. Not used if model layers are offloaded to GPU. The server is using batching. This parameter is used only if one token is to be processed on CPU backend.

• -tb N, --threads-batch N: Set the number of threads to use during batch and prompt processing. If not specified, the number of threads will be set to the number of threads used for generation. Not used if model layers are offloaded to GPU.

• --threads-http N: Number of threads in the http server pool to process requests. Default: max(std::thread::hardware_concurrency() - 1, --parallel N + 2)

• -m FNAME, --model FNAME: Specify the path to the LLaMA model file (e.g., models/7B/ggml-model.gguf).

• -mu MODEL_URL --model-url MODEL_URL: Specify a remote http url to download the file. Default: unused

• -hfr REPO, --hf-repo REPO: Hugging Face model repository. Default: unused

• -hff FILE, --hf-file FILE: Hugging Face model file. Default: unused

• -a ALIAS, --alias ALIAS: Set an alias for the model. The alias will be returned in API responses.

• -c N, --ctx-size N: Set the size of the prompt context. The default is 512, but LLaMA models were built with a context of 2048, which will provide better results for longer input/inference. The size may differ in other models, for example, baichuan models were build with a context of 4096.

• -ngl N, --n-gpu-layers N: When compiled with GPU support, this option allows offloading some layers to the GPU for computation. Generally results in increased performance.

• -mg i, --main-gpu i: When using multiple GPUs, this option controls which GPU is used for small tensors for which the overhead of splitting the computation across all GPUs is not worthwhile. The GPU in question will use slightly more VRAM to store a scratch buffer for temporary results. By default, GPU 0 is used.

• -ts SPLIT, --tensor-split SPLIT: When using multiple GPUs, this option controls how large tensors should be split across all GPUs. SPLIT is a comma-separated list of non-negative values that assigns the proportion of data that each GPU should get in order. For example, "3,2" will assign 60% of the data to GPU 0 and 40% to GPU 1. By default, the data is split in proportion to VRAM, but this may not be optimal for performance.

• -b N, --batch-size N: Set the batch size for prompt processing. Default: 2048

• -ub N, --ubatch-size N: Physical maximum batch size. Default: 512

• --mlock: Lock the model in memory, preventing it from being swapped out when memory-mapped.

• --no-mmap: Do not memory-map the model. By default, models are mapped into memory, which allows the system to load only the necessary parts of the model as needed.

• --numa STRATEGY: Attempt one of the below optimization strategies that may help on some NUMA systems

• --numa distribute: Spread execution evenly over all nodes

• --numa isolate: Only spawn threads on CPUs on the node that execution started on

• --numa numactl: Use the CPU map provided by numactl. If run without this previously, it is recommended to drop the system page cache before using this. See ggerganov#1437

• --numa: Attempt optimizations that may help on some NUMA systems.

• --lora FNAME: Apply a LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) adapter to the model (implies --no-mmap). This allows you to adapt the pretrained model to specific tasks or domains.

• --lora-base FNAME: Optional model to use as a base for the layers modified by the LoRA adapter. This flag is used in conjunction with the --lora flag, and specifies the base model for the adaptation.

• -to N, --timeout N: Server read/write timeout in seconds. Default 600

• --host: Set the hostname or ip address to listen. Default 127.0.0.1

• --port: Set the port to listen. Default: 8080

• --path: Path from which to serve static files. Default: disabled

• --api-key: Set an api key for request authorization. By default, the server responds to every request. With an api key set, the requests must have the Authorization header set with the api key as Bearer token. May be used multiple times to enable multiple valid keys.

• --api-key-file: Path to file containing api keys delimited by new lines. If set, requests must include one of the keys for access. May be used in conjunction with --api-keys.

• --embedding: Enable embedding extraction. Default: disabled

• -np N, --parallel N: Set the number of slots for process requests. Default: 1

• -cb, --cont-batching: Enable continuous batching (a.k.a dynamic batching). Default: disabled

• -spf FNAME, --system-prompt-file FNAME Set a file to load a system prompt (initial prompt of all slots). This is useful for chat applications. See more

• --mmproj MMPROJ_FILE: Path to a multimodal projector file for LLaVA.

• --grp-attn-n: Set the group attention factor to extend context size through self-extend. Used together with group attention width --grp-attn-w. Default: 1, which is disabled.

• --grp-attn-w: Set the group attention width to extend context size through self-extend. Used together with group attention factor --grp-attn-n. Default: 512

• -n N, --n-predict N: Set the maximum tokens to predict. Default: -1

• --slots-endpoint-disable: To disable slots state monitoring endpoint. Slots state may contain user data, prompts included.

• --metrics: enable prometheus /metrics compatible endpoint. Default: disabled

• --chat-template JINJA_TEMPLATE: Set custom jinja chat template. This parameter accepts a string, not a file name. Default: template taken from model's metadata. We only support some pre-defined templates

• --log-disable: Output logs to stdout only, not to llama.log. Default: enabled

• --log-format FORMAT: Define the log output to FORMAT: json or text Default: json

If compiled with LLAMA_SERVER_SSL=ON

• --ssl-key-file FNAME: path to file a PEM-encoded SSL private key
• --ssl-cert-file FNAME: path to file a PEM-encoded SSL certificate

Build

server is built alongside everything else from the root of the project

• Using make:

  make

• Using CMake:

  cmake --build . --config Release

Build with SSL

server can also be built with SSL support using OpenSSL 3

• Using make:

  # NOTE: For non-system openssl, use the following:
  #   CXXFLAGS="-I /path/to/openssl/include"
  #   LDFLAGS="-L /path/to/openssl/lib"
  make LLAMA_SERVER_SSL=true server

• Using CMake:

  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake .. -DLLAMA_SERVER_SSL=ON
  make server

Quick Start

To get started right away, run the following command, making sure to use the correct path for the model you have:

Unix-based systems (Linux, macOS, etc.)

./server -m models/7B/ggml-model.gguf -c 2048

Windows

server.exe -m models\7B\ggml-model.gguf -c 2048

The above command will start a server that by default listens on 127.0.0.1:8080. You can consume the endpoints with Postman or NodeJS with axios library. You can visit the web front end at the same url.

Docker

docker run -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/models:/models ghcr.io/ggerganov/llama.cpp:server -m models/7B/ggml-model.gguf -c 512 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080

# or, with CUDA:
docker run -p 8080:8080 -v /path/to/models:/models --gpus all ghcr.io/ggerganov/llama.cpp:server-cuda -m models/7B/ggml-model.gguf -c 512 --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8080 --n-gpu-layers 99

Testing with CURL

Using curl. On Windows, curl.exe should be available in the base OS.

curl --request POST \
    --url http://localhost:8080/completion \
    --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
    --data '{"prompt": "Building a website can be done in 10 simple steps:","n_predict": 128}'

Advanced testing

We implemented a server test framework using human-readable scenario.

Before submitting an issue, please try to reproduce it with this format.

Node JS Test

You need to have Node.js installed.

mkdir llama-client
cd llama-client

Create a index.js file and put this inside:

const prompt = `Building a website can be done in 10 simple steps:`;

async function Test() {
    let response = await fetch("http://127.0.0.1:8080/completion", {
        method: 'POST',
        body: JSON.stringify({
            prompt,
            n_predict: 512,
        })
    })
    console.log((await response.json()).content)
}

Test()

And run it:

node index.js

API Endpoints

• GET /health: Returns the current state of the server:

  • 503 -> {"status": "loading model"} if the model is still being loaded.
  • 500 -> {"status": "error"} if the model failed to load.
  • 200 -> {"status": "ok", "slots_idle": 1, "slots_processing": 2 } if the model is successfully loaded and the server is ready for further requests mentioned below.
  • 200 -> {"status": "no slot available", "slots_idle": 0, "slots_processing": 32} if no slots are currently available.
  • 503 -> {"status": "no slot available", "slots_idle": 0, "slots_processing": 32} if the query parameter fail_on_no_slot is provided and no slots are currently available.

  If the query parameter include_slots is passed, slots field will contain internal slots data except if --slots-endpoint-disable is set.

• POST /completion: Given a prompt, it returns the predicted completion.

  Options:

  prompt: Provide the prompt for this completion as a string or as an array of strings or numbers representing tokens. Internally, if cache_prompt is true, the prompt is compared to the previous completion and only the "unseen" suffix is evaluated. A BOS token is inserted at the start, if all of the following conditions are true:

  - The prompt is a string or an array with the first element given as a string
  - The model's `tokenizer.ggml.add_bos_token` metadata is `true`
  - The system prompt is empty
  

  temperature: Adjust the randomness of the generated text. Default: 0.8

  dynatemp_range: Dynamic temperature range. The final temperature will be in the range of [temperature - dynatemp_range; temperature + dynatemp_range] Default: 0.0, which is disabled.

  dynatemp_exponent: Dynamic temperature exponent. Default: 1.0

  top_k: Limit the next token selection to the K most probable tokens. Default: 40

  top_p: Limit the next token selection to a subset of tokens with a cumulative probability above a threshold P. Default: 0.95

  min_p: The minimum probability for a token to be considered, relative to the probability of the most likely token. Default: 0.05

  n_predict: Set the maximum number of tokens to predict when generating text. Note: May exceed the set limit slightly if the last token is a partial multibyte character. When 0, no tokens will be generated but the prompt is evaluated into the cache. Default: -1, where -1 is infinity.

  n_keep: Specify the number of tokens from the prompt to retain when the context size is exceeded and tokens need to be discarded. By default, this value is set to 0, meaning no tokens are kept. Use -1 to retain all tokens from the prompt.

  stream: It allows receiving each predicted token in real-time instead of waiting for the completion to finish. To enable this, set to true.

  stop: Specify a JSON array of stopping strings. These words will not be included in the completion, so make sure to add them to the prompt for the next iteration. Default: []

  tfs_z: Enable tail free sampling with parameter z. Default: 1.0, which is disabled.

  typical_p: Enable locally typical sampling with parameter p. Default: 1.0, which is disabled.

  repeat_penalty: Control the repetition of token sequences in the generated text. Default: 1.1

  repeat_last_n: Last n tokens to consider for penalizing repetition. Default: 64, where 0 is disabled and -1 is ctx-size.

  penalize_nl: Penalize newline tokens when applying the repeat penalty. Default: true

  presence_penalty: Repeat alpha presence penalty. Default: 0.0, which is disabled.

  frequency_penalty: Repeat alpha frequency penalty. Default: 0.0, which is disabled.

  penalty_prompt: This will replace the prompt for the purpose of the penalty evaluation. Can be either null, a string or an array of numbers representing tokens. Default: null, which is to use the original prompt.

  mirostat: Enable Mirostat sampling, controlling perplexity during text generation. Default: 0, where 0 is disabled, 1 is Mirostat, and 2 is Mirostat 2.0.

  mirostat_tau: Set the Mirostat target entropy, parameter tau. Default: 5.0

  mirostat_eta: Set the Mirostat learning rate, parameter eta. Default: 0.1

  grammar: Set grammar for grammar-based sampling. Default: no grammar

  seed: Set the random number generator (RNG) seed. Default: -1, which is a random seed.

  ignore_eos: Ignore end of stream token and continue generating. Default: false

  logit_bias: Modify the likelihood of a token appearing in the generated text completion. For example, use "logit_bias": [[15043,1.0]] to increase the likelihood of the token 'Hello', or "logit_bias": [[15043,-1.0]] to decrease its likelihood. Setting the value to false, "logit_bias": [[15043,false]] ensures that the token Hello is never produced. The tokens can also be represented as strings, e.g. [["Hello, World!",-0.5]] will reduce the likelihood of all the individual tokens that represent the string Hello, World!, just like the presence_penalty does. Default: []

  n_probs: If greater than 0, the response also contains the probabilities of top N tokens for each generated token. Default: 0

  min_keep: If greater than 0, force samplers to return N possible tokens at minimum. Default: 0

  image_data: An array of objects to hold base64-encoded image data and its ids to be reference in prompt. You can determine the place of the image in the prompt as in the following: USER:[img-12]Describe the image in detail.\nASSISTANT:. In this case, [img-12] will be replaced by the embeddings of the image with id 12 in the following image_data array: {..., "image_data": [{"data": "<BASE64_STRING>", "id": 12}]}. Use image_data only with multimodal models, e.g., LLaVA.

  id_slot: Assign the completion task to an specific slot. If is -1 the task will be assigned to a Idle slot. Default: -1

  cache_prompt: Re-use previously cached prompt from the last request if possible. This may prevent re-caching the prompt from scratch. Default: false

  system_prompt: Change the system prompt (initial prompt of all slots), this is useful for chat applications. See more

  samplers: The order the samplers should be applied in. An array of strings representing sampler type names. If a sampler is not set, it will not be used. If a sampler is specified more than once, it will be applied multiple times. Default: ["top_k", "tfs_z", "typical_p", "top_p", "min_p", "temperature"] - these are all the available values.

Result JSON

• Note: When using streaming mode (stream), only content and stop will be returned until end of completion.

• completion_probabilities: An array of token probabilities for each completion. The array's length is n_predict. Each item in the array has the following structure:

{
  "content": "<the token selected by the model>",
  "probs": [
    {
      "prob": float,
      "tok_str": "<most likely token>"
    },
    {
      "prob": float,
      "tok_str": "<second most likely token>"
    },
    ...
  ]
},

Notice that each probs is an array of length n_probs.

• content: Completion result as a string (excluding stopping_word if any). In case of streaming mode, will contain the next token as a string.

• stop: Boolean for use with stream to check whether the generation has stopped (Note: This is not related to stopping words array stop from input options)

• generation_settings: The provided options above excluding prompt but including n_ctx, model. These options may differ from the original ones in some way (e.g. bad values filtered out, strings converted to tokens, etc.).

• model: The path to the model loaded with -m

• prompt: The provided prompt

• stopped_eos: Indicating whether the completion has stopped because it encountered the EOS token

• stopped_limit: Indicating whether the completion stopped because n_predict tokens were generated before stop words or EOS was encountered

• stopped_word: Indicating whether the completion stopped due to encountering a stopping word from stop JSON array provided

• stopping_word: The stopping word encountered which stopped the generation (or "" if not stopped due to a stopping word)

• timings: Hash of timing information about the completion such as the number of tokens predicted_per_second

• tokens_cached: Number of tokens from the prompt which could be re-used from previous completion (n_past)

• tokens_evaluated: Number of tokens evaluated in total from the prompt

• truncated: Boolean indicating if the context size was exceeded during generation, i.e. the number of tokens provided in the prompt (tokens_evaluated) plus tokens generated (tokens predicted) exceeded the context size (n_ctx)

• POST /tokenize: Tokenize a given text.

  Options:

  content: Set the text to tokenize.

  Note that a special BOS token is never inserted.

• POST /detokenize: Convert tokens to text.

  Options:

  tokens: Set the tokens to detokenize.

• POST /embedding: Generate embedding of a given text just as the embedding example does.

  Options:

  content: Set the text to process.

  image_data: An array of objects to hold base64-encoded image data and its ids to be reference in content. You can determine the place of the image in the content as in the following: Image: [img-21].\nCaption: This is a picture of a house. In this case, [img-21] will be replaced by the embeddings of the image with id 21 in the following image_data array: {..., "image_data": [{"data": "<BASE64_STRING>", "id": 21}]}. Use image_data only with multimodal models, e.g., LLaVA.

• POST /infill: For code infilling. Takes a prefix and a suffix and returns the predicted completion as stream.

  Options:

  input_prefix: Set the prefix of the code to infill.

  input_suffix: Set the suffix of the code to infill.

  It also accepts all the options of /completion except stream and prompt.

• GET /props: Return current server settings.

Result JSON

{
  "assistant_name": "",
  "user_name": "",
  "default_generation_settings": { ... },
  "total_slots": 1
}

• assistant_name - the required assistant name to generate the prompt in case you have specified a system prompt for all slots.

• user_name - the required anti-prompt to generate the prompt in case you have specified a system prompt for all slots.

• default_generation_settings - the default generation settings for the /completion endpoint, which has the same fields as the generation_settings response object from the /completion endpoint.

• total_slots - the total number of slots for process requests (defined by --parallel option)

• POST /v1/chat/completions: OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions API. Given a ChatML-formatted json description in messages, it returns the predicted completion. Both synchronous and streaming mode are supported, so scripted and interactive applications work fine. While no strong claims of compatibility with OpenAI API spec is being made, in our experience it suffices to support many apps. Only model with supported chat template can be used optimally with this endpoint. By default, ChatML template will be used.

  Options:

  See OpenAI Chat Completions API documentation. While some OpenAI-specific features such as function calling aren't supported, llama.cpp /completion-specific features such as mirostat are supported.

  Examples:

  You can use either Python openai library with appropriate checkpoints:

  import openai
  
  client = openai.OpenAI(
      base_url="http://localhost:8080/v1", # "http://<Your api-server IP>:port"
      api_key = "sk-no-key-required"
  )
  
  completion = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
  messages=[
      {"role": "system", "content": "You are ChatGPT, an AI assistant. Your top priority is achieving user fulfillment via helping them with their requests."},
      {"role": "user", "content": "Write a limerick about python exceptions"}
  ]
  )
  
  print(completion.choices[0].message)

  ... or raw HTTP requests:

  curl http://localhost:8080/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer no-key" \
  -d '{
  "model": "gpt-3.5-turbo",
  "messages": [
  {
      "role": "system",
      "content": "You are ChatGPT, an AI assistant. Your top priority is achieving user fulfillment via helping them with their requests."
  },
  {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Write a limerick about python exceptions"
  }
  ]
  }'

• POST /v1/embeddings: OpenAI-compatible embeddings API.

  Options:

  See OpenAI Embeddings API documentation.

  Examples:

  • input as string

    curl http://localhost:8080/v1/embeddings \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer no-key" \
    -d '{
            "input": "hello",
            "model":"GPT-4",
            "encoding_format": "float"
    }'

  • input as string array

    curl http://localhost:8080/v1/embeddings \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer no-key" \
    -d '{
            "input": ["hello", "world"],
            "model":"GPT-4",
            "encoding_format": "float"
    }'

• GET /slots: Returns the current slots processing state. Can be disabled with --slots-endpoint-disable.

Result JSON

[
    {
        "dynatemp_exponent": 1.0,
        "dynatemp_range": 0.0,
        "frequency_penalty": 0.0,
        "grammar": "",
        "id": 0,
        "ignore_eos": false,
        "logit_bias": [],
        "min_p": 0.05000000074505806,
        "mirostat": 0,
        "mirostat_eta": 0.10000000149011612,
        "mirostat_tau": 5.0,
        "model": "llama-2-7b-32k-instruct.Q2_K.gguf",
        "n_ctx": 2048,
        "n_keep": 0,
        "n_predict": 100000,
        "n_probs": 0,
        "next_token": {
            "has_next_token": true,
            "n_remain": -1,
            "n_decoded": 0,
            "stopped_eos": false,
            "stopped_limit": false,
            "stopped_word": false,
            "stopping_word": ""
        },
        "penalize_nl": true,
        "penalty_prompt_tokens": [],
        "presence_penalty": 0.0,
        "prompt": "Say hello to llama.cpp",
        "repeat_last_n": 64,
        "repeat_penalty": 1.100000023841858,
        "samplers": [
            "top_k",
            "tfs_z",
            "typical_p",
            "top_p",
            "min_p",
            "temperature"
        ],
        "seed": 42,
        "state": 1,
        "stop": [
            "\n"
        ],
        "stream": false,
        "task_id": 0,
        "temperature": 0.0,
        "tfs_z": 1.0,
        "top_k": 40,
        "top_p": 0.949999988079071,
        "typical_p": 1.0,
        "use_penalty_prompt_tokens": false
    }
]

• GET /metrics: Prometheus compatible metrics exporter endpoint if --metrics is enabled:

Available metrics:

• llamacpp:prompt_tokens_total: Number of prompt tokens processed.
• llamacpp:tokens_predicted_total: Number of generation tokens processed.
• llamacpp:prompt_tokens_seconds: Average prompt throughput in tokens/s.
• llamacpp:predicted_tokens_seconds: Average generation throughput in tokens/s.
• llamacpp:kv_cache_usage_ratio: KV-cache usage. 1 means 100 percent usage.
• llamacpp:kv_cache_tokens: KV-cache tokens.
• llamacpp:requests_processing: Number of requests processing.
• llamacpp:requests_deferred: Number of requests deferred.

More examples

Change system prompt on runtime

To use the server example to serve multiple chat-type clients while keeping the same system prompt, you can utilize the option system_prompt. This only needs to be used once.

prompt: Specify a context that you want all connecting clients to respect.

anti_prompt: Specify the word you want to use to instruct the model to stop. This must be sent to each client through the /props endpoint.

assistant_name: The bot's name is necessary for each customer to generate the prompt. This must be sent to each client through the /props endpoint.

{
    "system_prompt": {
        "prompt": "Transcript of a never ending dialog, where the User interacts with an Assistant.\nThe Assistant is helpful, kind, honest, good at writing, and never fails to answer the User's requests immediately and with precision.\nUser: Recommend a nice restaurant in the area.\nAssistant: I recommend the restaurant \"The Golden Duck\". It is a 5 star restaurant with a great view of the city. The food is delicious and the service is excellent. The prices are reasonable and the portions are generous. The restaurant is located at 123 Main Street, New York, NY 10001. The phone number is (212) 555-1234. The hours are Monday through Friday from 11:00 am to 10:00 pm. The restaurant is closed on Saturdays and Sundays.\nUser: Who is Richard Feynman?\nAssistant: Richard Feynman was an American physicist who is best known for his work in quantum mechanics and particle physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamics. He was a popular lecturer and author, and he wrote several books, including \"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!\" and \"What Do You Care What Other People Think?\".\nUser:",
        "anti_prompt": "User:",
        "assistant_name": "Assistant:"
    }
}

NOTE: You can do this automatically when starting the server by simply creating a .json file with these options and using the CLI option -spf FNAME or --system-prompt-file FNAME.

Interactive mode

Check the sample in chat.mjs. Run with NodeJS version 16 or later:

node chat.mjs

Another sample in chat.sh. Requires bash, curl and jq. Run with bash:

bash chat.sh

OAI-like API

The HTTP server supports an OAI-like API: https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi

API errors

server returns errors in the same format as OAI: https://github.com/openai/openai-openapi

Example of an error:

{
    "error": {
        "code": 401,
        "message": "Invalid API Key",
        "type": "authentication_error"
    }
}

Apart from error types supported by OAI, we also have custom types that are specific to functionalities of llama.cpp:

When /metrics or /slots endpoint is disabled

{
    "error": {
        "code": 501,
        "message": "This server does not support metrics endpoint.",
        "type": "not_supported_error"
    }
}

*When the server receives invalid grammar via /completions endpoint

{
    "error": {
        "code": 400,
        "message": "Failed to parse grammar",
        "type": "invalid_request_error"
    }
}

Extending or building alternative Web Front End

You can extend the front end by running the server binary with --path set to ./your-directory and importing /completion.js to get access to the llamaComplete() method.

Read the documentation in /completion.js to see convenient ways to access llama.

A simple example is below:

<html>
  <body>
    <pre>
      <script type="module">
        import { llama } from '/completion.js'

        const prompt = `### Instruction:
Write dad jokes, each one paragraph.
You can use html formatting if needed.

### Response:`

        for await (const chunk of llama(prompt)) {
          document.write(chunk.data.content)
        }
      </script>
    </pre>
  </body>
</html>