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MLX LM vs Swama: catalog facts
MLX LM	Swama
Free Free to install and use.	Free Free, with source published on GitHub.
macOS, Command line	macOS
Runs models on Apple silicon through MLX One-command access to models on the Hugging Face Hub	Native Swift implementation on MLX Supports text, vision, embedding, speech recognition and speech synthesis models
Apple silicon only Command line and Python, with no graphical interface	Apple Silicon Macs only Smaller project than established model runners
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 24, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 1, 2026

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