# Core vs screenpipe (slim)

> screenpipe scores 61.1 (C) 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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- Index: https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt · API: https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json · Updated: 2026-10-06

screenpipe scores 61.1 (C) on agent readiness against Core's 7.3 (F), and leads in every scored category. Both do local inference.

- Core: F 7.3, rank #460 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/ghost-core.min.md
- screenpipe: C 61.1, rank #237 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.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.
- 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 5; Schema & documentation, 81 against 7; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 4; Security & auth, 48 against 6; Payments & pricing, 30 against 10; Maintenance & community, 82 against 3; Transparency & trust, 73 against 45. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Core | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 5 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 7 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 4 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 6 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 10 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 3 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 45 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Core | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Ghost (ZMJ, Inc.) | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| 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 | 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 | none | 2026-10-01 |
| Popularity | none | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (1) | 2/5 (2) |