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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What it does
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.
May suit
People who need to run, serve, or optimize AI models.
Before you try it
The repository reports a Apache-2.0 license. Setup difficulty and device support still need to be checked upstream.
Evidence & freshness
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- Evidence level
- Limited confidence
- Maintenance signal
- Healthy71/100
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Health Score Breakdown
Star Momentum
0
Commit Frequency
100
Issue Health
80
Contributors
91
Release Cadence
50
Documentation
100
Community Signal
100
Project Info
- Language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last Commit
- 2mo ago
- Last Release
- v0.6.35 (2mo ago)
- Open Issues
- 26
- Bus Factor
- 2
- Commits/Week
- 30.4
- Avg Issue Close
- 4.9 days
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