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title: "SGLang"
description: "SGL/SGLang API conversion guide - OpenAI-compatible format, parameter handling, streaming, tool support"
icon: "s"
---

## Overview

SGL (SGLang) is an **OpenAI-compatible local/remote inference engine** used for serving models with high throughput. Bifrost delegates all operations to the OpenAI provider implementation. Key features:
- **OpenAI API compatibility** - Identical request/response format
- **Full streaming support** - Server-Sent Events with usage tracking
- **Tool calling** - Complete function definition and execution
- **Text embeddings** - Support for embedding models
- **Parameter filtering** - Removes unsupported fields for compatibility

### Supported Operations

| Operation | Non-Streaming | Streaming | Endpoint |
|-----------|---------------|-----------|----------|
| Chat Completions | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/chat/completions` |
| Responses API | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/chat/completions` |
| Text Completions | ✅ | ✅ | `/v1/completions` |
| Embeddings | ✅ | - | `/v1/embeddings` |
| List Models | ✅ | - | `/v1/models` |
| Image Generation | ❌ | ❌ | - |
| Speech (TTS) | ❌ | ❌ | - |
| Transcriptions (STT) | ❌ | ❌ | - |
| Files | ❌ | ❌ | - |
| Batch | ❌ | ❌ | - |

<Note>
**Unsupported Operations** (❌): Speech, Transcriptions, Files, and Batch are not supported by the upstream SGL API. These return `UnsupportedOperationError`.

SGL is typically self-hosted. Ensure BaseURL is configured correctly pointing to your SGL instance (e.g., `http://localhost:8000`).
</Note>

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# 1. Chat Completions

## Request Parameters

SGL supports all standard OpenAI chat completion parameters. For full parameter reference and behavior, see [OpenAI Chat Completions](/providers/supported-providers/openai#1-chat-completions).

### Filtered Parameters

Removed for SGL compatibility:
- `prompt_cache_key` - Not supported
- `verbosity` - Anthropic-specific
- `store` - Not supported
- `service_tier` - OpenAI-specific

SGL supports all standard OpenAI message types, tools, responses, and streaming formats. For details on message handling, tool conversion, responses, and streaming, refer to [OpenAI Chat Completions](/providers/supported-providers/openai#1-chat-completions).

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# 2. Responses API

Fallback to Chat Completions with format conversion:

```
ResponsesRequest → ChatRequest → Response conversion
```

Same parameter support as Chat Completions.

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# 3. Text Completions

SGL supports legacy text completion format:

| Parameter | Mapping |
|-----------|---------|
| `prompt` | Direct pass-through |
| `max_tokens` | max_tokens |
| `temperature`, `top_p` | Direct pass-through |
| `frequency_penalty`, `presence_penalty` | Supported |

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# 4. Embeddings

SGL supports text embeddings for vector generation:

| Parameter | Notes |
|-----------|-------|
| `input` | Text or array of texts |
| `model` | Embedding model name |
| `encoding_format` | "float" or "base64" |
| `dimensions` | Model-specific dimension count |

Response returns embedding vectors with usage information.

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# 5. List Models

Lists available models from SGL server with capabilities.

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## Unsupported Features

| Feature | Reason |
|---------|--------|
| Speech/TTS | Not offered by SGL API |
| Transcription/STT | Not offered by SGL API |
| Batch Operations | Not offered by SGL API |
| File Management | Not offered by SGL API |

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<Note>
SGL requires BaseURL configuration pointing to your SGL instance (e.g., `http://localhost:8000` for local, `https://sgl.example.com` for remote).
</Note>

## Caveats

<Accordion title="BaseURL Configuration Required">
**Severity**: High
**Behavior**: BaseURL must be explicitly configured
**Impact**: Requests fail without proper configuration
**Code**: Validated in NewSGLProvider
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="Cache Control Stripped">
**Severity**: Medium
**Behavior**: Cache control directives are removed from messages
**Impact**: Prompt caching features don't work
**Code**: Stripped during JSON marshaling
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="Parameter Filtering">
**Severity**: Low
**Behavior**: OpenAI-specific fields filtered out
**Impact**: prompt_cache_key, verbosity, store removed
**Code**: filterOpenAISpecificParameters
</Accordion>

<Accordion title="User Field Size Limit">
**Severity**: Low
**Behavior**: User field > 64 characters silently dropped
**Impact**: Longer user identifiers are lost
**Code**: SanitizeUserField enforces 64-char max
</Accordion>