rapid-mlx

Install command:
brew install rapid-mlx

Fast 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

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