rapid-mlx
Install command:
brew install rapid-mlxFast local AI engine for Apple Silicon with an OpenAI-compatible API
https://github.com/raullenchai/Rapid-MLX
License: Apache-2.0
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/rapid-mlx.json
Formula code: rapid-mlx.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 0.16.10 |
Depends on:
| certifi | 2026.10.23 | Mozilla CA bundle for Python |
| cryptography | 50.0.2 | Cryptographic recipes and primitives for Python |
| ffmpeg | 9.0.2 | Play, record, convert, and stream select audio and video codecs |
| libsndfile | 1.2.2 | C library for files containing sampled sound |
| libyaml | 0.2.5 | YAML Parser |
| mlx | 0.32.4 | Array framework for Apple silicon |
| numpy | 2.5.4 | Package for scientific computing with Python |
| opencv | 5.0.0 | Open source computer vision library |
| pillow | 13.0.0 | Friendly PIL fork (Python Imaging Library) |
| portaudio | 19.7.0 | Cross-platform library for audio I/O |
| pydantic | 2.14.1 | Data validation using Python type hints |
| python-matplotlib | 3.11.2 | Python library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations |
| python@3.15 | 3.15.2 | Interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language |
| pytorch | 2.14.1 | Tensors and dynamic neural networks |
| rpds-py | 2026.9.1 | Python bindings to Rust's persistent data structures |
| scipy | 1.18.1 | Software for mathematics, science, and engineering |
| sentencepiece | 0.2.2 | Unsupervised text tokenizer and detokenizer |
| torchvision | 0.29.2 | Datasets, transforms, and models for computer vision |
Depends on when building from source:
| cmake | 4.4.5 | Cross-platform make |
| pkgconf | 3.0.10 | Package compiler and linker metadata toolkit |
| rust | 1.99.1 | Safe, concurrent, practical language |
Requires: macOS >= 14
Binaries:
rapid-mlx,
rapid-mlx-bench,
rapid-mlx-chat,
rapid-mlx-convert-clm-head,
rmlx,
vllm-mlx,
vllm-mlx-bench,
vllm-mlx-chat
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 815 | 2,591 | 2,908 |
| Installs on Request | 814 | 2,588 | 2,907 |
| Build Errors | 2 |