# Berth vs KoboldCpp (slim)

> Berth scores 67.6 (B) to KoboldCpp's 60.7 (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 KoboldCpp's 60.7 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. KoboldCpp leads on maintenance & community. Both do local inference.

- Berth: B 67.6, rank #283 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/berth.min.md
- KoboldCpp: C 60.7, rank #574 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.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; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 63; Security & auth, 51 against 38; Transparency & trust, 68 against 51.
- KoboldCpp, good for An owner who wants text, image, speech and music models behind one executable with a writing and roleplay interface, and clients that speak the KoboldAI, OpenAI, Ollama or Anthropic formats. Ahead on Maintenance & community, 82 against 76. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | Berth | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 51 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Berth | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Trevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) | LostRuins (Concedo) |
| 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 | AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-09-27 |
| Popularity | 245 stars | 12k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.8/5 (4) |