A critical weakness is the lack of direct comparative benchmarks against the three most relevant alternative frameworks.
llama.cpp is the standard for local LLM inference and serves as a key performance baseline. When it comes to prompt processing, llama.cpp significantly outperforms the assistant, achieving 137-189 tokens/s in batch mode compared to the assistant's 8.10 tokens/s—a roughly 15x performance gap that's likely due to Python/FastAPI overhead compared to llama.cpp's native C++ implementation [1]. However, token generation performance is much more comparable, with the assistant reaching 9.19 tokens/s versus llama.cpp's 9-18 tokens/s range. One advantage of llama.cpp is its minimal deployment overhead through a single binary, making it straightforward to set up and run.