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title: Dynamo Feature Compatibility Matrices
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This document provides a comprehensive compatibility matrix for key Dynamo features across the supported backends.

*Updated for Dynamo v0.8.0*

**Legend:**
*   ✅ : Supported
*   🚧 : Work in Progress / Experimental / Limited

## Quick Comparison

| Feature                   | vLLM  | TensorRT-LLM | SGLang | Source                     |
| :------------------------ | :---: | :----------: | :----: | :------------------------- |
| **Disaggregated Serving** |   ✅   |      ✅       |   ✅    | [Design Doc][disagg]       |
| **KV-Aware Routing**      |   ✅   |      ✅       |   ✅    | [Router Doc][kv-routing]   |
| **SLA-Based Planner**     |   ✅   |      ✅       |   ✅    | [Planner Doc][planner]     |
| **KV Block Manager**      |   ✅   |      ✅       |   🚧    | [KVBM Doc][kvbm]           |
| **Multimodal (Image)**    |   ✅   |      ✅       |   ✅    | [Multimodal Doc][mm]       |
| **Multimodal (Video)**    |   ✅   |              |        | [Multimodal Doc][mm]       |
| **Multimodal (Audio)**    |   🚧   |              |        | [Multimodal Doc][mm]       |
| **Request Migration**     |   ✅   |      🚧       |   ✅    | [Migration Doc][migration] |
| **Request Cancellation**  |   ✅   |      ✅       |   🚧    | Backend READMEs            |
| **LoRA**                  |   ✅   |              |        | [K8s Guide][lora]          |
| **Tool Calling**          |   ✅   |      ✅       |   ✅    | [Tool Calling Doc][tools]  |
| **Speculative Decoding**  |   ✅   |      ✅       |   🚧    | Backend READMEs            |

## 1. vLLM Backend

vLLM offers the broadest feature coverage in Dynamo, with full support for disaggregated serving, KV-aware routing, KV block management, LoRA adapters, and multimodal inference including video and audio.

*Source: [vLLM Backend][vllm-readme]*

| Feature                   | Disaggregated Serving | KV-Aware Routing | SLA-Based Planner | KV Block Manager | Multimodal | Request Migration | Request Cancellation | LoRA  | Tool Calling | Speculative Decoding |
| :------------------------ | :-------------------: | :--------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | :--------: | :---------------: | :------------------: | :---: | :----------: | :------------------: |
| **Disaggregated Serving** |           —           |                  |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV-Aware Routing**      |           ✅           |        —         |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **SLA-Based Planner**     |           ✅           |        ✅         |         —         |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV Block Manager**      |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        —         |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Multimodal**            |           ✅           |   <sup>1</sup>   |         —         |        ✅         |     —      |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Migration**     |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     ✅      |         —         |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Cancellation**  |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     ✅      |         ✅         |          —           |       |              |                      |
| **LoRA**                  |           ✅           |  ✅<sup>2</sup>   |         —         |        ✅         |     —      |         ✅         |          ✅           |   —   |              |                      |
| **Tool Calling**          |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     ✅      |         ✅         |          ✅           |   ✅   |      —       |                      |
| **Speculative Decoding**  |           ✅           |        ✅         |         —         |        ✅         |     —      |         ✅         |          ✅           |   —   |      ✅       |          —           |

> **Notes:**
> 1. **Multimodal + KV-Aware Routing**: The KV router uses token-based hashing and does not yet support image/video hashes, so it falls back to random/round-robin routing. ([Source][kv-routing])
> 2. **KV-Aware LoRA Routing**: vLLM supports routing requests based on LoRA adapter affinity.
> 3. **Audio Support**: vLLM supports audio models like Qwen2-Audio (experimental). ([Source][mm-vllm])
> 4. **Video Support**: vLLM supports video input with frame sampling. ([Source][mm-vllm])
> 5. **Speculative Decoding**: Eagle3 support documented. ([Source][vllm-spec])

## 2. SGLang Backend

SGLang is optimized for high-throughput serving with fast primitives, providing robust support for disaggregated serving, KV-aware routing, and request migration.

*Source: [SGLang Backend][sglang-readme]*

| Feature                   | Disaggregated Serving | KV-Aware Routing | SLA-Based Planner | KV Block Manager | Multimodal | Request Migration | Request Cancellation | LoRA  | Tool Calling | Speculative Decoding |
| :------------------------ | :-------------------: | :--------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | :--------: | :---------------: | :------------------: | :---: | :----------: | :------------------: |
| **Disaggregated Serving** |           —           |                  |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV-Aware Routing**      |           ✅           |        —         |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **SLA-Based Planner**     |           ✅           |        ✅         |         —         |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV Block Manager**      |           🚧           |        🚧         |         🚧         |        —         |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Multimodal**            |     ✅<sup>2</sup>     |   <sup>1</sup>   |         —         |        🚧         |     —      |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Migration**     |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        🚧         |     ✅      |         —         |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Cancellation**  |     🚧<sup>3</sup>     |        ✅         |         ✅         |        🚧         |     🚧      |         ✅         |          —           |       |              |                      |
| **LoRA**                  |                       |                  |                   |        🚧         |            |                   |                      |   —   |              |                      |
| **Tool Calling**          |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        🚧         |     ✅      |         ✅         |          ✅           |       |      —       |                      |
| **Speculative Decoding**  |           🚧           |        🚧         |         —         |        🚧         |     —      |         🚧         |          —           |       |      🚧       |          —           |

> **Notes:**
> 1. **Multimodal + KV-Aware Routing**: Not supported. ([Source][kv-routing])
> 2. **Multimodal Patterns**: Supports **E/PD** and **E/P/D** only (requires separate vision encoder). Does **not** support simple Aggregated (EPD) or Traditional Disagg (EP/D). ([Source][mm-sglang])
> 3. **Request Cancellation**: Cancellation during the remote prefill phase is not supported in disaggregated mode. ([Source][sglang-readme])
> 4. **Speculative Decoding**: Code hooks exist (`spec_decode_stats` in publisher), but no examples or documentation yet.

## 3. TensorRT-LLM Backend

TensorRT-LLM delivers maximum inference performance and optimization, with full KVBM integration and robust disaggregated serving support.

*Source: [TensorRT-LLM Backend][trtllm-readme]*

| Feature                   | Disaggregated Serving | KV-Aware Routing | SLA-Based Planner | KV Block Manager | Multimodal | Request Migration | Request Cancellation | LoRA  | Tool Calling | Speculative Decoding |
| :------------------------ | :-------------------: | :--------------: | :---------------: | :--------------: | :--------: | :---------------: | :------------------: | :---: | :----------: | :------------------: |
| **Disaggregated Serving** |           —           |                  |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV-Aware Routing**      |           ✅           |        —         |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **SLA-Based Planner**     |           ✅           |        ✅         |         —         |                  |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **KV Block Manager**      |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        —         |            |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Multimodal**            |     ✅<sup>1</sup>     |   <sup>2</sup>   |         —         |        ✅         |     —      |                   |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Migration**     |     🚧<sup>3</sup>     |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     🚧      |         —         |                      |       |              |                      |
| **Request Cancellation**  |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     ✅      |         ✅         |          —           |       |              |                      |
| **LoRA**                  |                       |                  |                   |                  |            |                   |                      |   —   |              |                      |
| **Tool Calling**          |           ✅           |        ✅         |         ✅         |        ✅         |     ✅      |         ✅         |          ✅           |       |      —       |                      |
| **Speculative Decoding**  |           ✅           |        ✅         |         —         |        ✅         |     —      |         ✅         |          ✅           |       |      ✅       |          —           |

> **Notes:**
> 1. **Multimodal Disaggregation**: Fully supports **EP/D** (Traditional) pattern. **E/P/D** (Full Disaggregation) is WIP and currently supports pre-computed embeddings only. ([Source][mm-trtllm])
> 2. **Multimodal + KV-Aware Routing**: Not supported. The KV router currently tracks token-based blocks only. ([Source][kv-routing])
> 3. **Request Migration**: Supported on **Decode/Aggregated** workers only. **Prefill** workers do not support migration. ([Source][trtllm-readme])
> 4. **Speculative Decoding**: Llama 4 + Eagle support documented. ([Source][trtllm-eagle])

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## Source References

### Backends
[vllm-readme]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/components/backends/v-llm
[sglang-readme]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/components/backends/sg-lang
[trtllm-readme]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/components/backends/tensor-rt-llm

### Design Docs
[disagg]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/design-docs/disaggregated-serving
[kv-routing]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/router-details/kv-cache-routing
[planner]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/components/planner/overview
[kvbm]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/components/kvbm/overview
[migration]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/fault-tolerance/request-migration
[tools]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/user-guides/tool-calling

### Multimodal
[mm]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/user-guides/multimodality-support
[mm-vllm]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/multimodal-details/v-llm
[mm-trtllm]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/multimodal-details/tensor-rt-llm
[mm-sglang]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/multimodal-details/sg-lang

### Feature-specific
[lora]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/kubernetes-deployment/deployment-guide/managing-models-with-dynamo-model
[vllm-spec]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/backend-details/v-llm/speculative-decoding
[trtllm-eagle]: /dynamo/v-0-8-0/additional-resources/backend-details/tensor-rt-llm/llama-4-eagle