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. Maintained by raullenchai on GitHub, where it has earned 3,400 stars from the community.

It's actively developed around apple-silicon, fastapi, inference, and is a solid reference for anyone building with these tools.