Decision Workspace
mlxrs vs pmetal-core vs pmetal-metal
Side-by-side comparison of Rust crates
44
mlxrs
experimentalv0.1.0
Safe Rust bindings for Apple's MLX array framework, with LM, VLM, audio, and embeddings support
59
pmetal-core
experimentalv0.5.0
Core types, traits, and configuration for PMetal LLM fine-tuning
55
pmetal-metal
experimentalv0.5.0
Metal GPU compute kernels for PMetal - FlashAttention and optimized ML primitives
Core Metrics
| mlxrs | pmetal-core | pmetal-metal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health Score | 44 | 59 | 55 |
| Total Downloads | 32 | 1.4K | 1.2K |
| 30d Downloads | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dependents | 0 | 289 | 148 |
| Releases | 1 | 19 | 19 |
| Last Updated | 43d ago | 66d ago | 66d ago |
| Age | 1m | 4m | 4m |
Health Breakdown
mlxrs
Maintenance
10
Quality
11
Community
6
Popularity
2
Documentation
15
pmetal-core
Maintenance
15
Quality
15
Community
13
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
pmetal-metal
Maintenance
15
Quality
12
Community
12
Popularity
4
Documentation
12
Technical Details
| mlxrs | pmetal-core | pmetal-metal | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Version | 0.1.0 | 0.5.0 | 0.5.0 |
| Stable (≥1.0) | ✗ No | ✗ No | ✗ No |
| License | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 | MIT OR Apache-2.0 |
| Dependencies | 29 | 7 | 22 |
| Crate Size | 2.7MB | 42KB | 426KB |
| Features | 17 | 2 | 2 |
| Yanked % | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Edition | 2024 | 2024 | 2024 |
| MSRV | 1.95 | 1.89 | 1.89 |
| Owners | 1 | 1 | 1 |
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Quick Verdict
- •pmetal-core leads with a health score of 59/100, but none of the options score above 80.
- •pmetal-core is depended on by 289 crates — strongest ecosystem trust.