Community poll · Sep 25 – Oct 2, 2026 · Apple silicon

More than half of MLX users run oMLX

The ranking

Which MLX engines do you use?

Share of ballots that picked each engine. Voters could pick up to five, so the shares add up to more than 100%.

Top fourOther enginesAdded during the poll (fewer voters saw it)
Bigger chip, different engine

LM Studio leads on base chips. oMLX owns the Ultras.

Share of each chip class using the top four engines. 489 voters told us their chip.

By unified memory

From 256 GB up, three in four voters use oMLX

Share of voters in each memory tier who use each engine. A darker cell means a higher share.

Who answered

An M5 Max and 128 GB crowd

Chip and memory were optional questions. 489 voters shared their chip and 478 shared their memory.

Ballots by chip

Dashed cells are chips that weren't on the list. Groups under five aren't broken down anywhere else in this report.

Ballots by unified memory

Stacks

Most people run more than one engine

Engines most often picked together

Share of all ballots that picked both

Engines picked per ballot

Turnout

Most of the votes came in the first 24 hours

Method

How to read these numbers