# Core vs Lemonade (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do local inference.

- Core: F 7.3, rank #842 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.min.md
- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- Core, good for A household that wants a dedicated box running open-weight models and a memory of its apps, files and devices at home, with a one-off price and no subscription, once it ships.
- Lemonade, good for An owner with AMD hardware (Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon or Strix Halo) who wants one local server for chat, speech and images that existing OpenAI, Anthropic or Ollama clients can call, and for MCP clients that want local models as tools. Ahead on Reliability, 75 against 5; Schema & documentation, 70 against 7; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 4; Security & auth, 36 against 6; Payments & pricing, 60 against 10; Maintenance & community, 76 against 3; Transparency & trust, 64 against 45. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Core | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 5 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 7 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 4 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 6 | 36 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 3 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Core | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.) | AMD and the Lemonade community |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Free |
| Licence | Not stated. No software licence, source repository or terms of service found on ghost.ai (checked 2026-10-05). Models listed are Qwen 3.8-Next, Qwen 3.8-27B, Gemma 4-31B and Muse-Glimmer-30B. Ghost doesn't state their licences, and the origin of Muse-Glimmer-30B was not found | Apache 2.0. Each backend (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, FastFlowLM and others) is downloaded separately under its own licence |
| Tools exposed | none | 6 |
| Last release | none | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-10-05 | no document linked |
| Popularity | none | 5.8k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (1) | none |