# Foundry Local vs KoboldCpp (slim)

> Foundry Local and KoboldCpp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.5 (C) and 60.5 (C). KoboldCpp leads on schema & documentation. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Foundry Local and KoboldCpp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.5 (C) and 60.5 (C). KoboldCpp leads on schema & documentation. Both do local inference.

- Foundry Local: C 60.5, rank #461 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/foundry-local.min.md
- KoboldCpp: C 60.5, rank #462 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.min.md
- 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 82; Transparency & trust, 72 against 49.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 68 against 53.

| Category | Foundry Local | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 53 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 61 | 63 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 39 | 38 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 88 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 49 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Foundry Local | KoboldCpp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | SDK + MCP | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Microsoft | LostRuins (Concedo) |
| Licence | 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 | 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 | 2026-09-29 | 2026-09-27 |
| Popularity | 2.6k stars, 105k npm/wk, 47k PyPI/wk | 12k stars |