# MTPLX

15 Hacker News commenters recommended MTPLX and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Inference engine that speeds up local Qwen models on Apple Silicon Macs, often reported 2-3x faster. Some people did not get good results with it.

## Why people recommend it

- Speeds up local model inference (5 comments): "Checkout MTPLX. I use the Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Speed model and I get around 12 tok/s on a 36GB MBP." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326525)) "it really wasn't an exaggeration to say that it ran the model 2-3x faster which was super impressive" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48971189)) "Try 3.8 27B in MTPLX; I get about 30 tok/s with the same hardware as you." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490537))
- Runs Qwen 3.8 models well (4 comments): "I've been having pretty good luck with the Qwen models with the built in MTP heads" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517498)) "Try 3.8 27B in MTPLX; I get about 30 tok/s with the same hardware as you." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490537)) "Qwen 3.8 Flash Next with mtplx on 128GB M5 Max is amazing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49960248))
- Works on consumer Macs (4 comments): "Checkout MTPLX. I use the Youssofal/Qwen3.8-27B-MTPLX-Optimized-Speed model and I get around 12 tok/s on a 36GB MBP." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49326525)) "I get around 30 tok/s with it, also on an M1 Max with 64GB." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612229)) "mtplx runs it at 25 tok/sec on a M4 Max with 48GB RAM" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49327214))

## What people warn about

- Did not work well for some (2 comments): "I didn't get on very well with MTPLX when I tried it a while back" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49300107)) "I still found the general MLX MTP acceleration to be so poor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49730090))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [ONNX Runtime](https://hackerapproved.com/p/onnx-runtime.md): 11 recommend
- [Tiny-vLLM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/tiny-vllm.md): 11 recommend
- [OpenVINO](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openvino.md): 10 recommend
- [ONNX](https://hackerapproved.com/p/onnx.md): 9 recommend
- [Timber](https://hackerapproved.com/p/timber.md): 9 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "MTPLX", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mtplx/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).