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# MLX-VLM

**What:** Vision-language models on MLX.

**Why:** Runs open models on your own hardware.

**Category:** Runtimes & inference · **Stack layer:** runtime

## Status

Catalog entry. Existence and repo metadata checked 2026-10-15 via the GitHub API. Install commands below are auto-extracted from the README and have NOT been executed or verified. Read the README before running anything; prefer a sandbox or venv.

## Install (unverified)

1. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install -U mlx-vlm
```

2. [any] source: README (auto-extracted); status: unverified, not executed

```bash
pip install -U 'mlx-vlm[ui]'
```

## Verify

No verified check yet. Minimum: the install command exits 0 and the tool's own help/version flag runs (exact flag: see README).

## Rollback (unverified)

1. source: derived inverse of install command

```bash
pip uninstall -y mlx-vlm
```

## Links

- Repo: https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm
- README: https://github.com/Blaizzy/mlx-vlm#readme