waybarrios/vllm-mlx

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  # vllm-mlx
  
  **Continuous batching + OpenAI + Anthropic APIs in one server. Native Apple Silicon inference.**

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  # vllm-mlx: High-Performance LLM Server for Apple Silicon (OpenAI/Anthropic Compatible)
  
  **The vLLM-style inference server for Apple Silicon Macs, offering continuous batching, paged KV cache, and native MLX backend. It exposes both OpenAI `/v1/*` and Anthropic `/v1/messages` APIs from a single process, enabling efficient serving of LLMs, vision models, audio, and embeddings on Metal with unified memory.**

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• mediumreadme#2

  Explicitly name and differentiate from key competitors in the README

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  A vLLM-style inference server for Apple Silicon Macs. Unlike `Ollama` or `mlx-lm` used directly, it ships **continuous batching, paged KV cache, prefix caching, and SSD-tiered cache**, and exposes **both OpenAI `/v1/*` and Anthropic `/v1/messages`** from a single process.

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  ## Why vllm-mlx? Differentiating from Ollama, mlx-lm, and vLLM
  
  While tools like `Ollama` and `mlx-lm` offer local LLM inference, `vllm-mlx` stands out by providing a full vLLM-style inference server optimized for Apple Silicon. Unlike these alternatives, and even the original `vLLM` (which lacks native MLX support), `vllm-mlx` ships with advanced features like **continuous batching, paged KV cache, prefix caching, and SSD-tiered cache**. Crucially, it exposes **both OpenAI `/v1/*` and Anthropic `/v1/messages` APIs** from a single process, enabling high-throughput, multimodal serving directly on Metal with unified memory, without conversion steps.

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• mediumhomepage#3

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  https://github.com/waybarrios/vllm-mlx

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• CATEGORY QUERY

  How to run local LLM inference on Apple Silicon with continuous batching support?

  you: not recommended
  AI recommended (in order):

  1. llama.cpp (ggerganov/llama.cpp)
  2. llamacpp-python (abetlen/llama-cpp-python)
  3. vLLM (vllm-project/vllm)
  4. Ollama (ollama/ollama)
  5. LMDeploy (InternLM/LMDeploy)
  6. text-generation-inference (huggingface/text-generation-inference)

  AI recommended 6 alternatives but never named waybarrios/vllm-mlx. This is the gap to close.

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• CATEGORY QUERY

  Seeking a local server for multimodal AI inference with OpenAI and Anthropic API compatibility.

  you: not recommended
  AI recommended (in order):

  1. LM Studio
  2. Ollama
  3. LocalAI
  4. vLLM
  5. TGI (Text Generation Inference) by Hugging Face

  AI recommended 5 alternatives but never named waybarrios/vllm-mlx. This is the gap to close.

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• Compared to common alternatives in this category, what is the core differentiator of waybarrios/vllm-mlx?

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• If a team adopts waybarrios/vllm-mlx in production, what risks or prerequisites should they evaluate first?

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