tamserve: open-source SAM 2 tracker server cuts live video tracking cost in half
Chunkymunkey642069 · reddit · 2026-11-13
A new open-source project tamserve makes SAM 2-style trackers (SAM 2.1, EdgeTAM) practical for live cameras. Meta's reference code keeps every frame and exhausts GPU memory within minutes; tamserve shares one model copy across all cameras with flat memory usage.
- Up to 3.8x faster than Meta's code out of the box, same accuracy
- Per-camera daily cost on one RTX 4090: $1.07 vs $2.40 at 30fps, $0.36 vs $0.74 at 10fps, $0.18 vs $0.44 at 5fps
- Add/drop objects on any frame, cameras self-reconnect, scales across GPUs
MIT-licensed, with a GitHub repo and a Colab quickstart (pip install tamserve).
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