# BitRun vs screenpipe (slim)

> screenpipe scores 60.8 (C) to BitRun's 37.9 (F) for local inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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screenpipe scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against BitRun's 37.9 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. BitRun leads on payments & pricing. Both do local inference.

- BitRun: F 37.9, rank #1018 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bitrun.min.md
- screenpipe: C 60.8, rank #529 of 1094 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.min.md
- BitRun, good for A developer who wants to try ternary models on a laptop CPU behind an OpenAI-style endpoint without building bitnet.cpp. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.
- 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 Reliability, 65 against 38; Schema & documentation, 81 against 30; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 40; Security & auth, 48 against 28; Maintenance & community, 82 against 59; Transparency & trust, 70 against 50. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | BitRun | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 38 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 30 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 40 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 28 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 59 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 50 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | BitRun | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Platform |
| Vendor | Abhishek Khanra (IshekKhal on GitHub) | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | MIT | 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 | 2026-10-15 | 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 | 5 stars | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |