Monthly downloads
365.0K
Weekly downloads
102.8K
GitHub stars
9.0K
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
MIT
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
MLX Contributors
First Release
May 1, 2024
Total Releases
10
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 220 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
85
Adoption
95
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
192 days ago
Monthly downloads
364,982
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
364,982
Stars
9,002
Stars per 1k downloads
24.66
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
14,685
Month daily avg
12,166
Momentum
+20.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
413 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
4.1
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
186
Monthly downloads
364,982
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
16.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
220d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
macOS
11.4K
Linux
1.0K
Windows
11
Python Versions
3.12
50.1%
6.1K
3.13
13.8%
1.7K
3.11
13.2%
1.6K
3.14
12.7%
1.5K
3.9
10.2%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
4.0K
US
2.
JP
1.1K
JP
3.
CN
673
CN
4.
KR
500
KR
5.
DE
488
DE
6.
SG
419
SG
7.
IN
407
IN
8.
BR
336
BR
9.
HK
326
HK
10.
FR
306
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
9
Used By
62
- whisper-turbo 4.9K/mo
- mlx-openai-server 2.0K/mo
- local-llm-server 1.7K/mo
- whispermlx 1.5K/mo
- mynah-stt 1.4K/mo
- nodetool-mlx 1.1K/mo
- wyoming-mlx-whisper 768/mo
- dora-distil-whisper 762/mo
- huske 665/mo
- beyin 642/mo
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh