Osaurus vs Ollama: The Ultimate Apple Silicon LLM Server Showdown

Osaurus: A Feather-Light, Apple-Silicon-Only LLM Server That Runs Rings Around Ollama Last updated: 26 Aug 2025 If you own an Apple-silicon Mac and want a truly local, offline chatbot that weighs less than a PDF, let me introduce Osaurus: a 7 MB, open-source, Swift-native LLM server built on Apple’s MLX framework. It claims to be 20 % faster than Ollama, speaks the OpenAI REST API fluently, and runs entirely on your laptop without a single cloud call. Below you’ll find everything you need—no fluff, no hype—to decide whether Osaurus deserves a spot in your toolkit. Table of contents What exactly …