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+# [vLLM](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm) demo app for Fly.io
+
+
+First deploy with:
+```
+fly launch
+```
+
+from there update by running: `fly deploy`
+
+Once deploy, interact with the API at https://$APPNAME.fly.dev/
+
+
+```
+❯ curl https://vllm-demo.fly.dev/v1/completions \
+    -H "Content-Type: application/json"  \
+    -d '{
+        "model": "facebook/opt-125m",
+        "prompt": "San Francisco is a",
+        "max_tokens": 7,
+        "temperature": 0
+    }' -s |jq .
+{
+  "id": "cmpl-b4b03ec33d794a50ba5cf2801d807025",
+  "object": "text_completion",
+  "created": 1716250075,
+  "model": "facebook/opt-125m",
+  "choices": [
+    {
+      "index": 0,
+      "text": " great place to live.  I",
+      "logprobs": null,
+      "finish_reason": "length",
+      "stop_reason": null
+    }
+  ],
+  "usage": {
+    "prompt_tokens": 5,
+    "total_tokens": 12,
+    "completion_tokens": 7
+  }
+}
+```