LiteRT-LM

LiteRT-LM is Google's production-ready, high-performance, open-source inference framework for deploying Large Language Models on edge devices.

🔗 Product Website

🔥 What's New: Gemma 4 support with LiteRT-LM

Deploy Gemma 4 across a broad range of hardware with stellar performance (blog).

👉 Try on Linux, macOS, Windows (WSL) or Raspberry Pi with the LiteRT-LM CLI:

litert-lm run  \
   --from-huggingface-repo=litert-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-litert-lm \
   gemma-4-E2B-it.litertlm \
   --prompt="What is the capital of France?"

🌟 Key Features

• 📱 Cross-Platform Support: Android, iOS, Web, Desktop, and IoT (e.g. Raspberry Pi).
• 🚀 Hardware Acceleration: Peak performance via GPU and NPU accelerators.
• 👁️ Multi-Modality: Support for vision and audio inputs.
• 🔧 Tool Use: Function calling support for agentic workflows.
• 📚 Broad Model Support: Gemma, Llama, Phi-4, Qwen, and more.

🚀 Production-Ready for Google's Products

LiteRT-LM powers on-device GenAI experiences in Chrome, Chromebook Plus, Pixel Watch, and more.

You can also try the Google AI Edge Gallery app to run models immediately on your device.

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📰 Blogs & Announcements

🏃 Quick Start

🔗 Key Links

• 👉 Technical Overview including performance benchmarks, model support, and more.
• 👉 LiteRT-LM CLI Guide including installation, getting started, and advanced usage.

⚡ Quick Try (No Code)

Try LiteRT-LM immediately from your terminal without writing a single line of code using uv:

uv tool install litert-lm

litert-lm run \
  --from-huggingface-repo=google/gemma-3n-E2B-it-litert-lm \
  gemma-3n-E2B-it-int4 \
  --prompt="What is the capital of France?"

📚 Supported Language APIs

Ready to get started? Explore our language-specific guides and setup instructions.

🏗️ Build From Source

This guide shows how you can compile LiteRT-LM from source. If you want to build the program from source, you should checkout the stable tag.

📦 Releases

• v0.10.1: Deploy Gemma 4 with stellar performance (blog) and introduce LiteRT-LM CLI.
• v0.9.0: Improvements to function calling capabilities, better app performance stability.
• v0.8.0: Desktop GPU support and Multi-Modality.
• v0.7.0: NPU acceleration for Gemma models.

For a full list of releases, see GitHub Releases.