# KoboldCpp vs Lemonade (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against KoboldCpp's 60.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. KoboldCpp leads on maintenance & community. 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 KoboldCpp's 60.5 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. KoboldCpp leads on maintenance & community. Both do local inference.

- KoboldCpp: C 60.5, rank #462 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.min.md
- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- 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 Maintenance & community, 82 against 76. Also No key needed to call 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 68; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 63; Transparency & trust, 64 against 49.

| Category | KoboldCpp | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 75 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 70 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 70 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 36 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 76 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 64 |

| Fact (where they differ) | KoboldCpp | Lemonade |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | LostRuins (Concedo) | AMD and the Lemonade community |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT | 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 |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-07 |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 5.8k stars |