No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mlx-lm has 1.5M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.31.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2024.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of jinja2, mlx and numpy. It is used by 170 tracked packages, including unsloth-zoo, mlx-vlm and mlx-audio.
GitHub topics include llms and mlx.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
82
Adoption
60
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,523,542
•
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
1,523,542
Stars
6,187
Stars per 1k downloads
4.06
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
40,397
Month daily avg
50,785
Momentum
-20.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
MIT
•
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
75 days ago
Total releases
114
Releases/year
45.9
•
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
126
Monthly downloads
1,523,542
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
85
Issue Burden
29.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
63d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
macOS
20.7K
Linux
10.3K
Windows
451
Python Versions
3.12
33.8%
10.0K
3.13
20.3%
6.0K
3.11
20.1%
5.9K
3.9
13.9%
4.1K
3.14
11.9%
3.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
17.7K
US
2.
DE
1.3K
DE
3.
JP
1.2K
JP
4.
CN
1.1K
CN
5.
IN
803
IN
6.
HK
703
HK
7.
KR
662
KR
8.
GB
657
GB
9.
SG
594
SG
10.
CA
510
CA
Used By
170
- unsloth-zoo
- mlx-vlm
- mlx-audio
- rapid-mlx
- mlx-openai-server
- mlx-optiq
- vllm-mlx
- optillm
- mlx-tune
- vmlx
- mlx-code
- squish-ai
- edge-studio
- local-llm-server
- shadowlm
- mtplx
- mlx-lm-lora
- leann-core
- mlx-memo
- speech-to-speech
- turboquant-mlx-full
- finamt
- mlx-embeddings-lora
- kestrel-feature-parametric-self
- mlx-omni-server
- asimov-mlx-module
- bmplib-ai
- augllm
- inductive-mlxrl
- mlx-quant-fidelity
- mlx-dspark
- plllm-mlx
- jesco-apple-silicon-engine
- mlx-audio-plus
- cortex-llm
- dflash-mlx
- mlx-knife
- erictransformer
- cat-agent
- llm-mlx
- kamiwaza-mlx
- textpolicy
- dora-qwen
- z-vision-generator
- mlx-manager
- qwen3-tts
- forgellm
- synapt
- tunelabs-zoo
- chirp-notes-ai
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 12, 2024
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.31.3
Total Releases
114
Contributors
126
Open PRs
247
Archived
No
Author
MLX Contributors
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh