# Berth vs Foundry Local (slim)

> Berth scores 67.6 (B) to Foundry Local's 60.5 (C) for local inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Berth scores 67.6 (B) on agent readiness against Foundry Local's 60.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Foundry Local leads on maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do local inference.

- Berth: B 67.6, rank #283 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/berth.min.md
- Foundry Local: C 60.5, rank #579 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foundry-local.min.md
- Berth, good 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 68; Schema & documentation, 69 against 53; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 61; Security & auth, 51 against 39.
- Foundry Local, good for An application that ships a model to end users' Windows, macOS or Linux devices and wants NPU and GPU variants chosen automatically, especially on Windows. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 88 against 76; Transparency & trust, 73 against 68. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | Berth | Foundry Local |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 53 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 61 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 39 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Berth | Foundry Local |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | SDK + MCP |
| Vendor | Trevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) | Microsoft |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Apache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file | MIT for the SDKs and the v2 native runtime. The CLI is closed source under Microsoft Software Licence Terms. Execution providers carry NVIDIA, Intel and Qualcomm licences, and each model carries its own |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-09-29 |
| Popularity | 245 stars | 2.6k stars, 105k npm/wk, 47k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (4) |