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The fastest local AI engine for Apple Silicon. 4.2x faster than Ollama, 0.08s cached TTFT, 100% tool calling. 17 tool parsers, prompt cache, reasoning separation, cloud routing. Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Aider.
A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs
vLLM has the larger GitHub footprint with 79.7K stars.
vLLM is currently growing faster at +606 stars this week.
vLLM has the stronger health score at 93/100.
| Signal | Rapid MLX | vLLM |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 2.1K | 79.7K |
| Weekly growth | 0 | +606 |
| Health score | 76 | 93 |
| Contributors | 26 | 2.6K |
| Commits per week | 30.4 | 208.8 |
| Open issues | 26 | 4.9K |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Apache-2.0 |
| Last commit | 17h ago | 15h ago |
| Last release | v0.6.35 | v0.20.2 |
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