# Jan vs Lemonade (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Jan's 51.3 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Jan leads on security & auth. 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 Jan's 51.3 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Jan leads on security & auth. Both do local inference.

- Jan: D 51.3, rank #672 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/jan.min.md
- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- Jan, good for A person who wants an open-source desktop app for local and cloud models with MCP, and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for their own tools. Ahead on Security & auth, 43 against 36.
- 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 68; Schema & documentation, 70 against 56; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 46; Maintenance & community, 76 against 47. Also No incidents deducted, where Jan loses 4 points for them.

| Category | Jan | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 56 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 46 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 43 | 36 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 47 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 68 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Jan | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Menlo Research | AMD and the Lemonade community |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 | 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 | 2026-07-23 | 2026-10-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2025-01-16 | no document linked |
| Popularity | 45k stars | 5.8k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |