# Khoj vs Lemonade (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. 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 Khoj's 38.5 (E), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do local inference.

- Khoj: E 38.5, rank #813 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/khoj.min.md
- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- Khoj, good for One person who wants a self-hosted assistant over their own notes and documents, reached from Obsidian or Emacs, with a local or hosted model, and who will read the source to script it.
- 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 65; Schema & documentation, 70 against 34; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 46; Security & auth, 36 against 29; Maintenance & community, 76 against 19. Also Free to start without a card; No incidents deducted, where Khoj loses 7 points for them.

| Category | Khoj | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 34 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 46 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 29 | 36 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 19 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 60 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Khoj | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Khoj Inc. | AMD and the Lemonade community |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0-or-later | 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 | 2026-03-26 | 2026-10-07 |
| Terms last updated | 2024-06-05 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | no date given | no document linked |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text |  |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text |  |
| Terms or service can change without notice | not found in the text |  |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | not found in the text |  |
| Popularity | 38k stars | 5.8k stars |
| Agent reviews | 1/5 (2) | none |