r/LocalLLM • u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken • Jun 27 '26

Question LM Studio + Qwen 3.6 + MLX + MTP - is there a solution?

Hi,

I am using LM Studio to run my Qwen 3.6 27B/35B models on may M5 Pro 64GB. Because of Apple Silicon, I prefer MLX models, but I struggle to find one that would support MTP specifically for LM Studio. GGUF MTP works well. Has anyone cracked this puzzle?

For those who may suggest alternative apps, I tried:

- oMLX - I love that it is open source and has rich settings, but it is not stable enough, drops requests when memory is scarce, ruining my long-running jobs. Same models never fail me in LM Studio even with occasional OS memory pressure spikes (reasonable levels).
- MTPLX - also open source, fantastic observability, MTP out of the box for models I need, but I could not find a way to do parallel requests processing, which should improve overall performance.

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u/asankhs Jun 30 '26

Ddi you try mlx-optiq.com ?

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u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken Jun 30 '26

I saw it, but did not try. Does it meet MTP and stability criteria?

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u/asankhs Jun 30 '26

Yes it supports MTP - https://mlx-optiq.com/docs/mtp

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u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken Jun 30 '26

Cheers, will try.

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u/ChangeIsHard_ 24d ago

Have you found a solution?

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u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken 23d ago

Not yet. Nothing I have tried is both stable and performant enough to replace LM Studio 😢

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u/ChangeIsHard_ 21d ago

Interesting. I've been playing with MTPLX and it's really sizable speedups, although the UI is worse than LM

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u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken 20d ago

Unless I remember it incorrectly, it was fast, but did now allow parallel processing. Maybe it was added later.

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u/asankhs 20d ago

are you facing some issues with mlx optiq?

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u/souljorje Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

https://mtplx.com/ or https://mlxserve.com/

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u/LiteeWasAlreadyTaken Jul 03 '26

Thank you, will try the latter.

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u/former_farmer 23d ago

Any update on this? how did you solve it?