Curated RWKV Ecosystem

Packages, Inference & Training

A reviewed directory of practical RWKV applications, inference runtimes, serving frameworks, and training resources.

Review the GitHub searchThe official GitHub API scans every result page; candidates are reviewed before inclusion.937 repositories reviewed across 10 pages: 187 included, 750 excluded.

Projects

187

Easy packages

33

Inference

91

Training

63

rwkv_lightning_cuda

Alic-Li

Inference
C++920

Inference service

The fastest pure C++ GPU runtime for RWKV — zero PyTorch, one-command deployment, CUDA/ROCm inference, quantization, state tuning & serving.🕊

Updated Oct 5, 2026
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sglang-rwkv7

btlqql

Inference
Python0Apache-2.000

Inference service

Independent SGLang distribution focused on production-grade RWKV-7 serving, recurrent state caching, speculative decoding, quantization, and broad GPU support.

Updated Oct 5, 2026
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rwkv-rsv

cgisky1980

Inference
Rust4MIT00

Quantization and compression

RWKV-7 inference engine in Rust (Vulkan compute shaders) with fp16/any4/int8 quantization paths

Updated Oct 4, 2026
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vllm-rwkv7

btlqql

Inference
Python0Apache-2.000

Inference backend

Native RWKV-7 integration for vLLM, implemented clean-room against the Hugging Face contract.

Updated Oct 2, 2026
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RWKV_APP

RWKV-APP

Easy packages
Dart131Apache-2.0154

End-user application

Cross-platform, local-first RWKV chat application for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Updated Oct 1, 2026
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rwkv_mobile_flutter

RWKV-APP

Inference
Dart20Apache-2.053

End-user application

Flutter FFI bridge and runtime layer for on-device RWKV inference across mobile and desktop platforms.

Updated Sep 30, 2026
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RWKV-LM

BlinkDL

Training
Python14741Apache-2.01022137

Training and fine-tuning

The primary RWKV language-model repository, including architecture, training code, CUDA kernels, and examples.

Updated Sep 28, 2026
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flutter_roleplay

RWKV-APP

Easy packages
Dart1MIT10

End-user application

rwkv role play

Updated Sep 27, 2026
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onnx_rwkv

youzow3

Inference
Python3MIT01

Inference service

onnx_rwkv provides RWKV inference, deployment, runtime, or serving support.

Updated Sep 26, 2026
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any2rwkv

rwkv-rs

Training
Python410

Training and fine-tuning

Research tools for converting attention-based architectures to RWKV through layerwise distillation.

Updated Sep 20, 2026
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rwkv-vibe-code

RWKV-Vibe

Easy packages
TypeScript400

End-user application

Web frontend for high-concurrency RWKV inference.

Updated Sep 20, 2026
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rwkv-quant

RafaelUI

Inference
Python1Apache-2.000

Quantization and compression

pip install rwkv-quant

Updated Sep 17, 2026
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rwkv-metal

RafaelUI

Inference
Python5Apache-2.010

Inference backend

pip install rwkv-metal

Updated Sep 17, 2026
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llms-from-scratch-cn

datawhalechina

Training
Jupyter Notebook4392NOASSERTION60237

RWKV research implementation

Chinese hands-on course for building GLM4, Llama 3, and RWKV-6 language models from scratch.

Updated Sep 17, 2026
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RWKV-Vela

DaxYang-03

Easy packages
Dart4Apache-2.010

End-user application

RWKV Vela for Mac — local RWKV chat, model dashboard and signed app updates

Updated Sep 16, 2026
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rwkv7-sft

SU-180

Training
Python000

Training and fine-tuning

QLoRA fine-tuning framework for RWKV7-G1j models with custom datasets and training scripts.

Updated Sep 14, 2026
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Preen

No-22-Github

Training
Python6Apache-2.000

Training and fine-tuning

RWKV-7 state tuning for Mac (Apple Silicon / MLX) — train mountable init states.

Updated Sep 14, 2026
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rwkv-research

KronosDP

Training
Python1MIT00

Training and fine-tuning

Research on the RWKV recurrent LLM architecture: a custom fused CUDA WKV kernel, architecture refactors (SwiGLU -> linear projection), and training experiments on synthetic regular-language tasks.

Updated Sep 13, 2026
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Albatross

BlinkDL

Inference
Cuda132Apache-2.0291

Inference runtime

RWKV-7 7.2B fp16 15000+ tps decoding @ single 5090

Updated Sep 10, 2026
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wkvm

xiaol

Inference
Python3621510

Inference runtime

Inference for hybrid LLMs: Gemma, RWKV, and all kinds of hybrids.

Updated Sep 10, 2026
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hf-adapter

rwkv-rs

Inference
Python8MIT40

Runtime adapter

RWKV-7 HuggingFace / Transformers adapter

Updated Sep 7, 2026
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MagicWX

Pangu-Immortal

Easy packages
Kotlin855MIT36124

End-user application

Android 17 local LLM prototype with Jetpack Compose and ONNX Runtime for offline AI inference experiments.

Updated Sep 6, 2026
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rwkv-mobile

MollySophia

Inference
C++100102

End-user application

Inference RWKV with multiple supported backends.

Updated Sep 4, 2026
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RWKV-Runner

josStorer

Easy packages
TypeScript6481MIT59748

End-user application

Automated RWKV management and startup tool with a desktop interface and an OpenAI-compatible API.

Updated Sep 4, 2026
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