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Rapid-MLX

Rapid-MLX

by raullenchai · GitHub

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.

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Apache-2.0
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📅 Created
2026
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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.

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What is Rapid-MLX?

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.

Is Rapid-MLX open source?

Rapid-MLX is an open-source project. It is released under the Apache-2.0 license.

Is Rapid-MLX free?

Yes. Rapid-MLX is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it.

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