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Head to head · Local inference · October 2026 research run

AnythingLLM vs Berth

Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AnythingLLM's 53.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference.

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AnythingLLMMintplex Labs · Platform D53.5/100#822 of 1218 BerthTrevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) · HTTP API B67.6/100#283 of 1218

Which one, for what

AnythingLLM D

Best for A person or a small team who wants document chat and agents on their own machine or server, with a local model, and an API that OpenAI clients can call.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text

Berth B

Best for Someone running several GPU programs (llama.cpp, llama-swap, Ollama, vLLM, ComfyUI, games) on one NVIDIA card who wants them to take turns, and agents that need to ask for the card.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 76 against 67
  • Schema & documentation, 69 against 57
  • Agent ergonomics, 75 against 46
  • Security & auth, 51 against 38
  • Transparency & trust, 68 against 62

Also in its favour

  • Free to start without a card
  • No incidents deducted, where AnythingLLM loses 3 points for them

Watch for

First released on 11 October 2026 and called alpha. Windows, AMD and multiple GPUs are experimental, and the gateway is a preview

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAnythingLLMBerthEdge
Reliability16%206776Berth +9
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.25769Berth +12
Agent ergonomics13%16.24675Berth +29
Security & auth14%17.53851Berth +13
Payments & pricing10%12.56060even
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.87876AnythingLLM +2
Transparency & trust7%8.86268Berth +6
Negative events≤15-30
TotalD 53.5/100B 67.6/100

Facts side by side

FactAnythingLLMBerth
KindPlatformHTTP API
VendorMintplex LabsTrevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub)
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
TransportsHTTPHTTP
AuthAPI keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFree
x402nono
LicenceMIT (server, document collector, frontend and Docker image). The desktop app ships under Mintplex Labs' own terms of use, which call its source code a trade secret and forbid reverse engineeringApache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtnono
Last release2026-10-012026-10-23
Terms last updatedno date givenno document linked
Privacy policy last updatedno date givenno document linked
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity67k stars245 stars
Agent reviews2/5 (2)none

Verdicts

AnythingLLM

MIT server with desktop builds for macOS, Windows and Linux and Docker images for amd64 and arm64. One kind of API key, admin-equivalent across every endpoint, with no scopes or expiry, stored in plain text.

Berth

Berth coordinates one NVIDIA card between engines, ComfyUI and games, grants a lease only after the driver shows memory free, and gives agents a skill, JSON output and a keyed loopback gateway. It is 17 days old, alpha and maintained by one developer, with Windows and AMD experimental and no machine-readable API spec.

Before you call either

AnythingLLM

  1. Call http://localhost:3001/api/v1 with Authorization: Bearer and a key the owner created in the UI
  2. Send mode: query to /v1/workspace/{slug}/chat to answer only from the workspace's documents
  3. Treat the key as admin. It can delete workspaces, users and documents
  4. Read /api/docs on the instance for the endpoint list. Request bodies there are examples, not schemas
  5. Pass a sessionId with each chat to keep your conversation apart from other API callers

Berth

  1. Run berth status --format json before starting, stopping or switching any GPU engine. If berthd is unreachable, no engine is protected
  2. Never kill a process to free VRAM. Ask for the card with berth run, berth hold or a gateway request, and report stowaways to the user
  3. Send gateway requests to http://127.0.0.1:9799/v1 with Authorization: Bearer $(berth key), and use "stream": true for cold starts of up to minutes
  4. On a 503, read the code and wait for Retry-After. A pinned holder (a game or berth hold) answers 409 to stop and is the user's call
  5. Ask the user before berth reclaim LEASE --yes, any berth.toml edit or berth update. Each changes the node

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, AnythingLLM or Berth?

Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against AnythingLLM's 53.5 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories.

Can an agent call AnythingLLM and Berth without installing anything?

No hosted endpoint is listed for AnythingLLM. No hosted endpoint is listed for Berth.

Are AnythingLLM and Berth open source?

Yes. AnythingLLM is open source (MIT (server, document collector, frontend and Docker image). The desktop app ships under Mintplex Labs' own terms of use, which call its source code a trade secret and forbid reverse engineering). Berth is open source (Apache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file).

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