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Which MLX engines do you use?
Pick up to five MLX engines you use.
Count any app or library you use to run models on Apple silicon through MLX, even if MLX is one of several backends.
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Live results
- 1 oMLX 57.8% 292 votes
- 2 MLX-Serve 38.0% 192 votes
- 3 LMstudio 34.9% 176 votes
- 4 MTPLX 29.5% 149 votes
- 5 Ollama 16.0% 81 votes
- 6 Splash 12.1% 61 votes
- 7 Unsloth 10.1% 51 votes
- 8 MLX LM 8.3% 42 votes
- 9 MLX VLM 6.7% 34 votes
- 10 Rapid MLX 4.6% 23 votes
- 11 Nativ 4.0% 20 votes
- 12 vMLX 3.6% 18 votes
- 13 sushi 1.6% 8 votes
- 14 VLLM Metal 1.4% 7 votes
- 15 mlx-dspark 1.2% 6 votes
- 16 VLLM MLX 1.0% 5 votes
- 17 SGLang 0.8% 4 votes
- 18 Atomic Chat 0.6% 3 votes
- 19 Jan 0.4% 2 votes
- 20 Paddock 0.2% 1 vote
- 21 mlxcel 0.0% 0 votes
- 21 rMLX 0.0% 0 votes
By chip
- M5 Max 86 · 26.1% Top: oMLX 56% · MLX-Serve 48% · MTPLX 42%
- M4 Pro 38 · 11.6% Top: LMstudio 58% · oMLX 58% · MTPLX 32%
- M3 Ultra 32 · 9.7% Top: oMLX 88% · LMstudio 34% · MLX-Serve 31%
- M4 Max 32 · 9.7% Top: oMLX 66% · MLX-Serve 34% · LMstudio 31%
- M5 Pro 28 · 8.5% Top: oMLX 57% · LMstudio 46% · MLX-Serve 32%
- M1 Max 18 · 5.5% Top: oMLX 61% · LMstudio 50% · MLX-Serve 28%
- M5 Ultra 14 · 4.3% Top: oMLX 79% · MLX-Serve 43% · LMstudio 14%
- M3 Max 13 · 4.0% Top: oMLX 69% · MTPLX 31% · LMstudio 23%
- M2 Max 12 · 3.6% Top: oMLX 58% · Ollama 33% · LMstudio 25%
- M4 12 · 3.6% Top: Ollama 42% · oMLX 42% · Unsloth 42%
- M5 10 · 3.0% Top: LMstudio 80% · MTPLX 50% · oMLX 50%
- M1 Ultra 8 · 2.4% Top: oMLX 62% · MLX-Serve 50% · LMstudio 38%
- M3 Pro 8 · 2.4% Top: oMLX 62% · LMstudio 50% · Ollama 38%
- M2 Ultra 7 · 2.1% Top: MLX-Serve 57% · oMLX 57% · MTPLX 29%
- M1 Pro 6 · 1.8% Top: LMstudio 50% · MLX LM 33% · MLX-Serve 33%
- M3 2 · 0.6% Top picks appear at 5+ answers
- M6 2 · 0.6% Top picks appear at 5+ answers
- M2 1 · 0.3% Top picks appear at 5+ answers
By unified memory
- 128 GB 97 · 30.1% Top: oMLX 63% · MLX-Serve 48% · MTPLX 38%
- 64 GB 72 · 22.4% Top: oMLX 60% · LMstudio 42% · MTPLX 32%
- 36 GB or less 60 · 18.6% Top: oMLX 53% · LMstudio 45% · MLX-Serve 30%
- 48 GB 42 · 13.0% Top: LMstudio 55% · oMLX 50% · Splash 36%
- 256 GB 23 · 7.1% Top: oMLX 100% · MLX-Serve 30% · LMstudio 26%
- 512 GB 13 · 4.0% Top: oMLX 77% · MLX-Serve 38% · Ollama 31%
- 96 GB 10 · 3.1% Top: oMLX 60% · LMstudio 50% · MLX-Serve 40%
- 192 GB 5 · 1.6% Top: MLX-Serve 80% · oMLX 60% · MTPLX 40%
Percentages show the share of ballots selecting each engine. Each ballot can select up to 5, so percentages may total more than 100%. Setup percentages are shares of ballots that answered; "Top" shows the share of that group selecting each engine.