# Berth vs LocalAI (slim)

> LocalAI and Berth score within a point of each other for local inference, 68.5 and 67.6 out of 100. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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LocalAI and Berth score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 68.5 (B) and 67.6 (B). Berth leads on transparency & trust. Both do local inference.

- Berth: B 67.6, rank #283 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/berth.min.md
- LocalAI: B 68.5, rank #242 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/localai.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 Transparency & trust, 68 against 53. Also No incidents deducted, where LocalAI loses 3 points for them.
- LocalAI, good for An owner who wants one local server for chat, embeddings, reranking, speech, images and video behind APIs their existing OpenAI, Anthropic or Ollama clients already speak, on almost any accelerator. Ahead on Reliability, 84 against 76; Schema & documentation, 81 against 69; Security & auth, 62 against 51. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Berth | LocalAI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 84 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 71 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 62 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 53 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Berth | LocalAI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Trevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) | Ettore Di Giacinto and the LocalAI team |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| 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. Each backend image wraps an upstream engine (llama.cpp, vLLM, whisper.cpp, diffusers and others) under that engine's own licence |
| Tools exposed | none | 42 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-02 |
| Popularity | 245 stars | 48k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 3/5 (2) |