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mlx-tune

Fine-tune LLMs on your Mac with Apple Silicon. SFT, DPO, GRPO, Vision, TTS, STT, Embedding, and OCR fine-tuning — natively on MLX. Unsloth-compatible API.
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Downloads
Day
458
Week
2.0K
Month
13.9K
Stars
1.2K
Forks
79
Issues
6
Version
0.4.25

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
62
Adoption
41
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
13,894
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
13,894
Stars
1,222
Stars per 1k downloads
87.95
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
289
Month daily avg
463
Momentum
-37.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
14 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
146.0
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
1
Monthly downloads
13,894
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
• Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
21
 
Issue Burden
4.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

macOS 147

Python Versions

3.9
36.1% 53
3.12
25.9% 38
3.11
17.7% 26
3.14
13.6% 20
3.13
6.8% 10

Top Countries

1. US US
60
2. AU AU
29
3. DE DE
28
4. HK HK
27
5. IN IN
22
6. CA CA
3
7. CN CN
2
8. CZ CZ
2
9. KR KR
2
10. TW TW
2

Dependencies

10
13 optional dependencies

Used By

1

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 2, 2026
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.4.25
Total Releases
26
Contributors
1
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
MLX-Tune Contributors
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
llm fine-tuning mlx apple-silicon lora unsloth mac mlx-tune embeddings sentence-transformers ocr document-understanding
Topics
apple-silicon deep-learning huggingface large-language-models llm llm-finetuning local-llm lora machine-learning macos mlx on-device-ai peft transformers unsloth vision-language-model speech-recognition speech-to-text text-to-speech whisper
Tracking Since
March 8, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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