# Berth vs MLX LM (slim)

> Berth scores 67.6 (B) to MLX LM's 52.5 (D) for local inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against MLX LM's 52.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference.

- Berth: B 67.6, rank #283 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/berth.min.md
- MLX LM: D 52.5, rank #866 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/mlx-lm.min.md
- Berth, good for Someone running several GPU programs (llama.cpp, llama-swap, Ollama, vLLM, ComfyUI, games) on one NVIDIA card who wants them to take turns, and agents that need to ask for the card. Ahead on Reliability, 76 against 66; Schema & documentation, 69 against 37; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 54; Security & auth, 51 against 32; Maintenance & community, 76 against 61.
- MLX LM, good for An owner with an Apple silicon Mac who wants MLX-format models, local fine-tuning and quantisation from Python or the command line, with a simple local chat completions server. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | Berth | MLX LM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 66 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 37 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 54 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 32 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 61 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 69 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Berth | MLX LM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Trevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) | Apple Inc. |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Apache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file | MIT |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-01 |
| Popularity | 245 stars | 7.3k stars, 140k PyPI/wk |