No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mlx has 1.1M monthly downloads and 27K GitHub stars. Version 0.31.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of mlx-metal. It is used by 301 tracked packages, including mlx-lm, unsloth-zoo and mlx-vlm.
GitHub topics include mlx.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
92
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,101,923
•
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
1,101,923
Stars
27,463
Stars per 1k downloads
24.92
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
32,421
Month daily avg
36,731
Momentum
-11.7%
((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
76 days ago
Total releases
121
Releases/year
45.7
•
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
268
Monthly downloads
1,101,923
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
82
Issue Burden
3.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
8.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
76d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
macOS
17.8K
Linux
9.1K
Windows
73
Python Versions
3.12
37.0%
9.6K
3.13
22.2%
5.8K
3.11
20.7%
5.4K
3.14
15.1%
3.9K
3.9
4.9%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
15.4K
US
2.
JP
1.1K
JP
3.
SG
1.0K
SG
4.
DE
831
DE
5.
CN
687
CN
6.
IN
672
IN
7.
GB
629
GB
8.
CA
580
CA
9.
KR
406
KR
10.
ES
364
ES
Dependencies
1
- mlx-metal ==0.31.2
10 optional dependencies
- ml-dtypes[dev]
- mlx-cpu[cpu]
- mlx-cuda-12[cuda]
- mlx-cuda-12[cuda12]
- mlx-cuda-13[cuda13]
- numpy[dev]
- pre-commit[dev]
- psutil[dev]
- torch[dev]
- typing-extensions[dev]
Used By
301
- mlx-lm
- unsloth-zoo
- mlx-vlm
- mlx-audio
- tabpfn
- mlx-whisper
- mlx-embeddings
- rapid-mlx
- mflux
- parakeet-mlx
- mlx-openai-server
- mlx-optiq
- vllm-mlx
- mlx-tune
- vmlx
- mlx-gen
- ezmsg-sigproc
- squish-ai
- veloxquant-mlx
- edge-studio
- mlx-qwen3-asr
- mtplx
- f5-tts-mlx
- instructlab
- lucid-dl
- mlx-taef
- mlx-lm-lora
- mlx-arsenal
- mlx-mfa
- leann-core
- vocos-mlx
- lightning-whisper-mlx
- mlx-memo
- mlx-whisperx
- mlx-teacache
- mlx-embedding-models
- moshi-mlx
- mlx-video-with-audio
- speech-to-speech
- whisper-turbo-mlx
- mlx-lattice
- turboquant-mlx-full
- pymss
- diffusionkit
- mlx-embeddings-lora
- mlx-speech
- mlx-kquant
- whisper-mps
- mlx-omni-server
- atai-whisper-tool
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 13, 2023
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
5 hr ago
Latest Version
0.31.2
Total Releases
121
Contributors
268
Open PRs
35
Archived
No
Author
MLX Contributors
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh