# Berth vs screenpipe (slim)

> Berth scores 67.6 (B) to screenpipe's 60.9 (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 screenpipe's 60.9 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. screenpipe leads on schema & documentation and maintenance & community. Both do local inference.

- Berth: B 67.6, rank #283 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/berth.min.md
- screenpipe: C 60.9, rank #564 of 1218 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.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 65; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also Free to start without a card; Open source; No incidents deducted, where screenpipe loses 3 points for them.
- screenpipe, good for One person who wants an agent to recall what they saw, said or heard on their own computer, meetings included, with local storage and local transcription. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 81 against 69; Maintenance & community, 82 against 76. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Berth | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 76 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 69 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 51 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Berth | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Trevin Tindall (T-Crypt on GitHub) | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache-2.0. The Berth name, the Pilot mascot and the artwork in assets/ are excluded from the licence, per the NOTICE file | Screenpipe Commercial License (source-available). Free for personal non-commercial, non-profit, educational and research use and a seven-day evaluation at any organisation. Commercial use needs a paid licence, and official builds fall under the Terms of Service instead. Versions released earlier under MIT stay MIT |
| Tools exposed | none | 33 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.screenpipe/screenpipe-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-23 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 245 stars | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |