Is mlx-whisper safe to use?

mlx-whisper has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.4.3). DepScope rates its health at 53/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of mlx-whisper?

The latest version of mlx-whisper is 0.4.3, released 2025-08-29.

Does mlx-whisper have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of mlx-whisper.

Is mlx-whisper deprecated?

No, mlx-whisper is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.4.3 (2025-08-29).

What are alternatives to mlx-whisper?

Popular alternatives to mlx-whisper in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, urllib3, idna, requests.

What license does mlx-whisper use?

mlx-whisper is licensed under MIT.

mlx-whisper

pypiv0.4.3

OpenAI Whisper on Apple silicon with MLX and the Hugging Face Hub

License MITpermissive8 versions1 maintainers9 deps26,377 weekly dl

ml-explore/mlx-examples

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (53/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (53/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

6/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (9)

mlx numba numpy torch tqdm more-itertools tiktoken huggingface_hub scipy

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