Run Claude Code locally for free: mlx-serve on Apple Silicon

Claude Code is the best AI coding assistant available right now. But it calls the Anthropic API by default, which adds up fast on long sessions.

What if you could run it entirely locally - free, private, and on hardware you already own?

mlx-serve makes this possible on any Apple Silicon Mac.

What is mlx-serve?

mlx-serve is a native Zig server for MLX-format language models on Apple Silicon. It exposes OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic-compatible, and Ollama-compatible HTTP APIs - all on a single port, from a single binary.