# KoboldCpp vs screenpipe (slim)

> screenpipe and KoboldCpp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.8 (C) and 60.5 (C). KoboldCpp leads on payments & pricing. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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screenpipe and KoboldCpp score within a point of each other on agent readiness, 60.8 (C) and 60.5 (C). KoboldCpp leads on payments & pricing. Both do local inference.

- KoboldCpp: C 60.5, rank #462 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/koboldcpp.min.md
- screenpipe: C 60.8, rank #446 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.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 Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source; No incidents deducted, where screenpipe loses 3 points for them.
- 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 Schema & documentation, 81 against 68; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 63; Security & auth, 48 against 38; Transparency & trust, 70 against 49. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | KoboldCpp | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 68 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 68 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 63 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 38 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 49 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | KoboldCpp | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | LostRuins (Concedo) | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 for KoboldCpp and KoboldAI Lite. The bundled GGML, llama.cpp and stable-diffusion.cpp code stays under MIT | 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 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.screenpipe/screenpipe-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-27 | 2026-10-01 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-02 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-24 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | yes |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | yes |
| Popularity | 12k stars | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |