SharpAI / SwiftLM
⚡ Native MLX Swift LLM inference server for Apple Silicon. OpenAI-compatible API, SSD streaming for 100B+ MoE models, TurboQuant KV cache compression, MACOS + iOS iPhone app.
Why this job: says: inference server, llm inference; topics: inference, mlx, on-device-ai
What it does
- 100% Native Apple Silicon. Powered natively by Metal and Swift.
- OpenAI-compatible. Drop-in replacement for OpenAI SDKs (/v1/chat/completions, streaming, etc).
- Smart Model Routing. Loads HuggingFace format models directly, with native Safetensors parsing.
- Vision-Language Models (VLM). Native multimodal vision processing natively on Metal via the --vision flag, supporting real-time base64 image parsing (e.g., Qwen2-VL, PaliGemma).
- Audio-Language Models (ALM). High-performance audio ingestion via the --audio flag, decoding OpenAI-spec input_audio payloads with AVFoundation WAV extraction.
Get started
tar -xzf SwiftLM-<version>-macos-arm64.tar.gz
./SwiftLM --model mlx-community/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct-4bit --port 5413 You need: macOS 14.0+; Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3/M4/M5); Xcode Command Line Tools
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 3 days ago
- Stars
- 797
- +2 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- Mac
- From the latest release
- Latest tag
- b911
- Released 4 days ago
- Built with
- Swift
- 77% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- Not stated
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 91% closed
- 5 still open
- Pull requests
- 187 merged
- 0 waiting
- Releases
- 106
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Swift 77%
- Shell 14%
- Python 9%
- C++ <1%
Topics
- inference
- ios
- llm
- metal
- mlx
- moe
- on-device-ai
- openai-api
- swift
- apple-sili
Project record
- JobLocal LLMs
- StatusListed
- Commits914
- Forks56
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+18
- CreatedMar 21, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 8, 2026