diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index 00845f58..ae9dd7e0 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -97,6 +97,18 @@ QA_MODEL="claude-3-5-haiku-20241022"  # or claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022, etc.
 ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-api-key"
 ```
 
+### vLLM
+
+For high-performance local inference, you can use vLLM to serve models with OpenAI-compatible APIs:
+
+```bash
+QA_PROVIDER="vllm"
+QA_MODEL="Qwen/Qwen3-4B"  # Any model with tool support in vLLM
+VLLM_QA_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8002"  # vLLM server URL
+```
+
+**Note:** You need to run a vLLM server separately with a model that supports tool calling loaded. Consult the specific model's documentation for proper vLLM serving configuration.
+
 ### Other Providers
 
 Any provider supported by Pydantic AI can be used. Examples include:
diff --git a/docs/installation.md b/docs/installation.md
index e3416913..eb1e0750 100644
--- a/docs/installation.md
+++ b/docs/installation.md
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ pip install vllm
 # Serve an embedding model
 vllm serve mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1 --port 8000
 
+# Serve a model for QA (requires tool calling support)
+vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3-4B --port 8002 --enable-auto-tool-choice --tool-call-parser hermes
+
 # Serve a model for reranking
 vllm serve mixedbread-ai/mxbai-rerank-base-v2 --hf_overrides '{"architectures": ["Qwen2ForSequenceClassification"],"classifier_from_token": ["0", "1"], "method": "from_2_way_softmax"}' --port 8001
 ```
@@ -53,9 +56,14 @@ EMBEDDINGS_MODEL="mixedbread-ai/mxbai-embed-large-v1"
 EMBEDDINGS_VECTOR_DIM=512
 VLLM_EMBEDDINGS_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8000"
 
+# QA (optional)
+QA_PROVIDER="vllm"
+QA_MODEL="Qwen/Qwen3-4B"
+VLLM_QA_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8002"
+
 # Reranking (optional)
 RERANK_PROVIDER="vllm"
-RERANK_MODEL="microsoft/DialoGPT-medium"
+RERANK_MODEL="mixedbread-ai/mxbai-rerank-base-v2"
 VLLM_RERANK_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8001"
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/haiku/rag/qa/agent.py b/src/haiku/rag/qa/agent.py
index 711106ba..594fad6e 100644
--- a/src/haiku/rag/qa/agent.py
+++ b/src/haiku/rag/qa/agent.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
 from pydantic_ai import Agent, RunContext
 from pydantic_ai.models.openai import OpenAIChatModel
 from pydantic_ai.providers.ollama import OllamaProvider
+from pydantic_ai.providers.openai import OpenAIProvider
 
 from haiku.rag.client import HaikuRAG
 from haiku.rag.config import Config
@@ -65,6 +66,13 @@ class QuestionAnswerAgent:
                 model_name=model,
                 provider=OllamaProvider(base_url=f"{Config.OLLAMA_BASE_URL}/v1"),
             )
+        elif provider == "vllm":
+            return OpenAIChatModel(
+                model_name=model,
+                provider=OpenAIProvider(
+                    base_url=f"{Config.VLLM_QA_BASE_URL}/v1", api_key="none"
+                ),
+            )
         else:
             # For all other providers, use the provider:model format
             return f"{provider}:{model}"
diff --git a/tests/llm_judge.py b/tests/llm_judge.py
index 68ffe8c8..435e517b 100644
--- a/tests/llm_judge.py
+++ b/tests/llm_judge.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from pydantic_ai import Agent
-from pydantic_ai.models.openai import OpenAIModel
+from pydantic_ai.models.openai import OpenAIChatModel
 from pydantic_ai.providers.ollama import OllamaProvider
 
 from haiku.rag.config import Config
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ class LLMJudgeResponseSchema(BaseModel):
 class LLMJudge:
     """LLM-as-judge for evaluating answer equivalence using Pydantic AI."""
 
-    def __init__(self, model: str = Config.QA_MODEL):
+    def __init__(self, model: str = "qwen3"):
         # Create Ollama model
-        ollama_model = OpenAIModel(
+        ollama_model = OpenAIChatModel(
             model_name=model,
             provider=OllamaProvider(base_url=f"{Config.OLLAMA_BASE_URL}/v1"),
         )
diff --git a/tests/test_qa.py b/tests/test_qa.py
index 837c8f54..2fa2d417 100644
--- a/tests/test_qa.py
+++ b/tests/test_qa.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from .llm_judge import LLMJudge
 
 OPENAI_AVAILABLE = bool(Config.OPENAI_API_KEY)
 ANTHROPIC_AVAILABLE = bool(Config.ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)
+VLLM_QA_AVAILABLE = bool(Config.VLLM_QA_BASE_URL)
 
 
 @pytest.mark.asyncio
@@ -80,3 +81,26 @@ async def test_qa_anthropic(qa_corpus: Dataset, temp_db_path):
     assert is_equivalent, (
         f"Generated answer not equivalent to expected answer.\nQuestion: {question}\nGenerated: {answer}\nExpected: {expected_answer}"
     )
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+@pytest.mark.skipif(not VLLM_QA_AVAILABLE, reason="vLLM QA server not configured")
+async def test_qa_vllm(qa_corpus: Dataset, temp_db_path):
+    """Test vLLM QA with LLM judge."""
+    client = HaikuRAG(temp_db_path)
+    qa = QuestionAnswerAgent(client, "vllm", "Qwen/Qwen3-4B")
+    llm_judge = LLMJudge()
+
+    doc = qa_corpus[1]
+    await client.create_document(
+        content=doc["document_extracted"], uri=doc["document_id"]
+    )
+
+    question = doc["question"]
+    expected_answer = doc["answer"]
+    answer = await qa.answer(question)
+    is_equivalent = await llm_judge.judge_answers(question, answer, expected_answer)
+
+    assert is_equivalent, (
+        f"Generated answer not equivalent to expected answer.\nQuestion: {question}\nGenerated: {answer}\nExpected: {expected_answer}"
+    )