No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mlx-whisper has 204K monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2024.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of huggingface-hub, mlx and more-itertools. It is used by 57 tracked packages, including mlx-openai-server, openbase-coder and dora-distil-whisper.

GitHub topics include mlx.

Downloads
Day
8.6K
Week
47.6K
Month
203.8K
Stars
8.8K
Forks
1.2K
Issues
133
Version
0.4.3

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
85
Adoption
73
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
91 days ago
Monthly downloads
203,782
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
203,782
Stars
8,796
Stars per 1k downloads
43.16
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
6,804
Month daily avg
6,793
Momentum
+0.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
311 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
4.6
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
187
Monthly downloads
203,782
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
84
 
Issue Burden
15.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
220d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

macOS 4.8K
Linux 1.5K
Windows 50

Python Versions

3.12
37.5% 2.3K
3.14
20.4% 1.2K
3.13
15.4% 930
3.11
15.1% 911
3.9
11.5% 697

Top Countries

1. US US
2.9K
2. JP JP
553
3. CN CN
220
4. DE DE
197
5. TW TW
167
6. IN IN
158
7. GB GB
134
8. KR KR
134
9. SG SG
133
10. BR BR
126
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Mlx

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 1, 2024
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.4.3
Total Releases
10
Contributors
187
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Author
MLX Contributors
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh