No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mlx-vlm has 883K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2024.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of datasets, fastapi and llguidance. It is used by 48 tracked packages, including unsloth-zoo, mlx-embeddings and mlx-openai-server.
GitHub topics include llava, llm and mlx.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
80
Adoption
69
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
882,721
•
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
882,721
Stars
5,127
Stars per 1k downloads
5.81
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
28,481
Month daily avg
29,424
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
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
0 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
30.4
•
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
141
Monthly downloads
882,721
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
80
Issue Burden
13.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.3%
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
15.8K
Linux
2.6K
Windows
190
Python Versions
3.13
50.2%
9.2K
3.12
25.8%
4.7K
3.14
10.2%
1.9K
3.11
7.2%
1.3K
3.9
6.6%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
11.6K
US
2.
DE
1.4K
DE
3.
IN
618
IN
4.
JP
508
JP
5.
CN
488
CN
6.
GB
421
GB
7.
KR
261
KR
8.
IT
247
IT
9.
CA
236
CA
10.
FR
180
FR
Dependencies
15
- datasets >=2.19.1
- fastapi >=0.95.1
- llguidance >=1.7.0
- miniaudio >=1.59
- mlx >=0.31.2
- mlx-audio >=0.4.3
- mlx-lm >=0.31.3
- numpy
- opencv-python >=4.12.0.88
- pillow >=10.3.0
- requests >=2.31.0
- starlette >=1.0.1
- tqdm >=4.66.2
- transformers >=5.5.0
- uvicorn
Used By
48
- unsloth-zoo
- mlx-embeddings
- mlx-openai-server
- vllm-mlx
- mlx-tune
- vmlx
- edge-studio
- local-llm-server
- mcp-ebook-read
- mlx-video-with-audio
- hn-local-image
- aimd-tool
- mlx-omni-server
- augllm
- mlx-dspark
- plllm-mlx
- jesco-apple-silicon-engine
- mlx-knife
- kamiwaza-mlx
- kiapi
- mlx-manager
- tunelabs-zoo
- vllm-metal
- mlx-augllm
- photonamer
- meetcap
- mlx-textgen
- flyto-mlx
- auto-simctl
- vllmlx
- uitag
- llava-caption
- dzbanek-langflow
- multimodal-parsers
- dspark-mlx
- strands-mlx
- mlx-alt-text
- localtalk
- retix
- mlx-gui
- fastmlx
- medgemma
- tvas
- mlx-router
- simajilord
- primeagent
- fastmlxons
- tetherd
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 23, 2024
Last Release
23 hr ago
Last Commit
12 hr ago
Latest Version
0.6.4
Total Releases
67
Contributors
141
Open PRs
34
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh