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raullenchai

rapid-mlx

The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
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Downloads
Day
3.2K
Week
8.9K
Month
18.3K
Stars
635
Forks
74
Issues
15
Version
0.6.15

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
57
Adoption
82
Community
55
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,288
• 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
18,288
Stars
635
Stars per 1k downloads
34.72
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
1,266
Month daily avg
610
Momentum
+107.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
0 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
261.8
• 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
27
Monthly downloads
18,288
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
58
 
Issue Burden
23.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

macOS 121

Python Versions

3.12
81.0% 98
3.14
8.3% 10
3.11
5.8% 7
3.13
5.0% 6

Top Countries

1. US US
141
2. SE SE
54
3. JP JP
25
4. FR FR
21
5. NL NL
16
6. RU RU
12
7. CN CN
11
8. BR BR
8
9. DE DE
8
10. GB GB
8

Dependencies

17
37 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 21, 2026
Last Release
4 hr ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.6.15
Total Releases
33
Contributors
27
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
vllm-mlx contributors
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
llm mlx apple-silicon vllm inference transformers
Topics
apple-silicon fastapi inference llm local-llm macos mlx openai-api python tool-calling hacktoberfest
Tracking Since
March 22, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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