diff --git a/router/Cargo.lock b/router/Cargo.lock
index 79761345..1f00df14 100644
--- a/router/Cargo.lock
+++ b/router/Cargo.lock
@@ -81,6 +81,53 @@ version = "1.1.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "d468802bab17cbc0cc575e9b053f41e72aa36bfa6b7f55e3529ffa43161b97fa"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "axum"
+version = "0.5.16"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c9e3356844c4d6a6d6467b8da2cffb4a2820be256f50a3a386c9d152bab31043"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "axum-core",
+ "bitflags",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "hyper",
+ "itoa",
+ "matchit",
+ "memchr",
+ "mime",
+ "percent-encoding",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "serde_urlencoded",
+ "sync_wrapper",
+ "tokio",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-http",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "axum-core"
+version = "0.2.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d9f0c0a60006f2a293d82d571f635042a72edf927539b7685bd62d361963839b"
+dependencies = [
+ "async-trait",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "mime",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "base64"
 version = "0.13.0"
@@ -106,10 +153,10 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "bloom-inference"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "axum",
  "bloom-inference-client",
  "futures",
  "parking_lot",
- "poem",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
  "tokenizers",
@@ -661,31 +708,6 @@ version = "0.12.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8a9ee70c43aaf417c914396645a0fa852624801b24ebb7ae78fe8272889ac888"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "headers"
-version = "0.3.8"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f3e372db8e5c0d213e0cd0b9be18be2aca3d44cf2fe30a9d46a65581cd454584"
-dependencies = [
- "base64",
- "bitflags",
- "bytes",
- "headers-core",
- "http",
- "httpdate",
- "mime",
- "sha1",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "headers-core"
-version = "0.2.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "e7f66481bfee273957b1f20485a4ff3362987f85b2c236580d81b4eb7a326429"
-dependencies = [
- "http",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "heck"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -726,6 +748,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "pin-project-lite",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "http-range-header"
+version = "0.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0bfe8eed0a9285ef776bb792479ea3834e8b94e13d615c2f66d03dd50a435a29"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "httparse"
 version = "1.8.0"
@@ -941,6 +969,12 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "f26a8d2502d5aa4d411ef494ba7470eb299f05725179ce3b5de77aa01a9ffdea"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "matchit"
+version = "0.5.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "73cbba799671b762df5a175adf59ce145165747bb891505c43d09aefbbf38beb"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "memchr"
 version = "2.5.0"
@@ -1201,65 +1235,12 @@ version = "0.3.25"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1df8c4ec4b0627e53bdf214615ad287367e482558cf84b109250b37464dc03ae"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "poem"
-version = "1.3.45"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2992ba72908e36200671c0f3a692992ced894b3b2bbe2b2dc6dfbffea6e2c85a"
-dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
- "bytes",
- "futures-util",
- "headers",
- "http",
- "hyper",
- "mime",
- "parking_lot",
- "percent-encoding",
- "pin-project-lite",
- "poem-derive",
- "regex",
- "rfc7239",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
- "serde_urlencoded",
- "smallvec",
- "thiserror",
- "tokio",
- "tokio-stream",
- "tokio-util 0.7.4",
- "tracing",
-]
-
-[[package]]
-name = "poem-derive"
-version = "1.3.45"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9f535d4331a22610b98ca48f98bae9bda0c654da89b9ae10a1830fa9edfd8f36"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro-crate",
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ppv-lite86"
 version = "0.2.16"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "eb9f9e6e233e5c4a35559a617bf40a4ec447db2e84c20b55a6f83167b7e57872"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "proc-macro-crate"
-version = "1.2.1"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "eda0fc3b0fb7c975631757e14d9049da17374063edb6ebbcbc54d880d4fe94e9"
-dependencies = [
- "once_cell",
- "thiserror",
- "toml",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "proc-macro2"
 version = "1.0.46"
@@ -1479,15 +1460,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winreg",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "rfc7239"
-version = "0.1.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "087317b3cf7eb481f13bd9025d729324b7cd068d6f470e2d76d049e191f5ba47"
-dependencies = [
- "uncased",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "ryu"
 version = "1.0.11"
@@ -1576,17 +1548,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "sha1"
-version = "0.10.5"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "f04293dc80c3993519f2d7f6f511707ee7094fe0c6d3406feb330cdb3540eba3"
-dependencies = [
- "cfg-if",
- "cpufeatures",
- "digest",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "sha2"
 version = "0.10.6"
@@ -1667,6 +1628,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sync_wrapper"
+version = "0.1.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "20518fe4a4c9acf048008599e464deb21beeae3d3578418951a189c235a7a9a8"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tar"
 version = "0.4.38"
@@ -1890,15 +1857,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "toml"
-version = "0.5.9"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "8d82e1a7758622a465f8cee077614c73484dac5b836c02ff6a40d5d1010324d7"
-dependencies = [
- "serde",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tonic"
 version = "0.6.2"
@@ -1962,6 +1920,25 @@ dependencies = [
  "tracing",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tower-http"
+version = "0.3.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "3c530c8675c1dbf98facee631536fa116b5fb6382d7dd6dc1b118d970eafe3ba"
+dependencies = [
+ "bitflags",
+ "bytes",
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-util",
+ "http",
+ "http-body",
+ "http-range-header",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "tower",
+ "tower-layer",
+ "tower-service",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tower-layer"
 version = "0.3.1"
@@ -2065,15 +2042,6 @@ version = "1.15.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "dcf81ac59edc17cc8697ff311e8f5ef2d99fcbd9817b34cec66f90b6c3dfd987"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "uncased"
-version = "0.9.7"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "09b01702b0fd0b3fadcf98e098780badda8742d4f4a7676615cad90e8ac73622"
-dependencies = [
- "version_check",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode-bidi"
 version = "0.3.8"
diff --git a/router/Cargo.toml b/router/Cargo.toml
index 901a14f2..c5e5bb89 100644
--- a/router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/router/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,13 +3,11 @@ name = "bloom-inference"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
-# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
-
 [dependencies]
+axum = { version = "0.5.16", features = ["json", "serde_json"] }
 bloom-inference-client = { path = "client" }
 futures = "0.3.24"
 parking_lot = "0.12.1"
-poem = "1.3.45"
 serde = "1.0.145"
 serde_json = "1.0.85"
 tokenizers = "0.13.0"
diff --git a/router/client/Cargo.toml b/router/client/Cargo.toml
index e4f2fa0f..7760c8cb 100644
--- a/router/client/Cargo.toml
+++ b/router/client/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 [dependencies]
-futures = "0.3.24"
+futures = "^0.3"
 #grpc-error-details = { path = "../../grpc-error-details" }
 #grpc-metadata = { path = "../../grpc-metadata" }
 prost = "^0.9"
-thiserror = "1.0.37"
-tokio = { version = "1.21.2", features = ["sync"] }
+thiserror = "^1.0"
+tokio = { version = "^1.21", features = ["sync"] }
 tonic = "^0.6"
 tower = "^0.4"
 tracing = "^0.1"
diff --git a/router/src/main.rs b/router/src/main.rs
index fe82d059..803753b1 100644
--- a/router/src/main.rs
+++ b/router/src/main.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
 use bloom_inference_client::ShardedClient;
-use poem::listener::TcpListener;
 use std::time::Duration;
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 
@@ -37,9 +37,9 @@ fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
                 .expect("Unable to clear cache");
             tracing::info!("Connected");
 
-            let addr = "127.0.0.1:3000".to_string();
-            let listener = TcpListener::bind(addr);
+            let addr = SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 3000));
 
-            server::run(sharded_client, tokenizer, listener).await
+            server::run(sharded_client, tokenizer, addr).await;
+            Ok(())
         })
 }
diff --git a/router/src/server.rs b/router/src/server.rs
index 64b37ff8..61c57069 100644
--- a/router/src/server.rs
+++ b/router/src/server.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
+use std::net::SocketAddr;
+use axum::{Router, Json};
+use axum::http::StatusCode;
+use axum::extract::Extension;
+use axum::routing::post;
 use crate::{Batcher, ShardedClient, Validation};
-use poem::http::StatusCode;
-use poem::listener::TcpListener;
-use poem::middleware::AddData;
-use poem::web::{Data, Json};
-use poem::{handler, post, EndpointExt, Route, Server};
 use serde::Deserialize;
 use tokenizers::Tokenizer;
 use tokio::time::Instant;
@@ -60,26 +60,24 @@ pub(crate) struct GenerateRequest {
     pub parameters: GenerateParameters,
 }
 
-#[handler]
-#[instrument(skip(validation, infer), fields(time, time_per_token))]
+#[instrument(skip(state), fields(time, time_per_token))]
 async fn generate(
-    validation: Data<&Validation>,
-    infer: Data<&Batcher>,
+    state: Extension<ServerState>,
     req: Json<GenerateRequest>,
-) -> poem::Result<Json<serde_json::Value>> {
+) -> Result<Json<serde_json::Value>, StatusCode> {
     let start = Instant::now();
 
-    let (input_length, validated_request) = match validation
+    let (input_length, validated_request) = match state.validation
         .validate(GenerateRequest {
             inputs: req.inputs.clone(),
             parameters: req.parameters.clone(),
         })
         .await {
         Ok(result) => result,
-        Err(_) => return Err(poem::Error::from_status(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR))
+        Err(_) => return Err(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
     };
 
-    let output = infer.infer(input_length, validated_request).await;
+    let output = state.infer.infer(input_length, validated_request).await;
 
     match output {
         Ok(generated_text) => {
@@ -94,15 +92,21 @@ async fn generate(
                 "generated_text": generated_text,
             })))
         }
-        Err(_) => Err(poem::Error::from_status(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)),
+        Err(_) => Err(StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR),
     }
 }
 
+#[derive(Clone)]
+struct ServerState {
+    validation: Validation,
+    infer: Batcher,
+}
+
 pub async fn run(
     client: ShardedClient,
     tokenizer: Tokenizer,
-    listener: TcpListener<String>,
-) -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
+    addr: SocketAddr,
+)  {
     client.clear_cache().await.expect("Unable to clear cache");
     tracing::info!("Connected");
 
@@ -110,10 +114,13 @@ pub async fn run(
 
     let validation = Validation::new(tokenizer);
 
-    let app = Route::new()
-        .at("/generate", post(generate))
-        .with(AddData::new(validation))
-        .with(AddData::new(infer));
+    let shared_state = ServerState {
+        validation,
+        infer,
+    };
 
-    Server::new(listener).run(app).await
+    let app = Router::new().route("/generate", post(generate)).layer(Extension(shared_state));
+
+    axum::Server::bind(&addr)
+        .serve(app.into_make_service()).await.unwrap();
 }