Reflex

Reflex is a GGUF-native Rust and CUDA engine that runs scale-to-zero LLM routing, classification, chat, and text embeddings on Runpod.

Reflex provides zero-shot classification, intent routing, OpenAI-compatible chat, and text embeddings on scale-to-zero GPU endpoints. It uses a GGUF-native engine that compiles its CUDA kernels ahead of time so a cold worker reaches its first result fast. It scores every label as a prompt continuation in one prefill pass for classification, avoiding a decode loop. Optional RAG answers chat jobs from documents, network volume folders, or corpus URLs. Optional compliance records provide per-job attestations, image SBOMs, model cards, and audit logs. Users can pick from several models such as Qwen3, Qwen2.5, TinyLlama, Mistral, Granite, Gemma 4, and Nemotron.

Reflex at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Web, API, CLI, self-hosted
Pricing: Paid
Released: October 2026
Category: AI coding tool
Website: console.runpod.io

Key features

Compiles CUDA kernels ahead of time
Performs zero-shot classification
Serves OpenAI-compatible chat completions
Provides text embeddings
Supports optional RAG with document retrieval
Generates compliance records and audit logs
Supports custom GGUF URLs

Use it for

Zero-shot classification and intent routing
Streaming and non-streaming chat completions
Generating text embeddings
Retrieval-augmented generation from documents

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