# Lemonade vs LM Studio (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against LM Studio's 57.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. LM Studio 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 LM Studio's 57.8 (C), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. LM Studio leads on security & auth. Both do local inference.

- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- LM Studio: C 57.8, rank #536 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lm-studio.min.md
- 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 34; Schema & documentation, 70 against 64. Also Open source.
- LM Studio, good for A machine that serves open models to several agents and tools at once, in whichever API shape each client already speaks, and for headless serving on Linux with llmster. Ahead on Security & auth, 59 against 36.

| Category | Lemonade | LM Studio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 34 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 64 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 69 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 59 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 72 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 60 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lemonade | LM Studio |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | AMD and the Lemonade community | Element Labs, Inc. |
| Licence | Apache 2.0. Each backend (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, FastFlowLM and others) is downloaded separately under its own licence | Proprietary. The app and llmster are free for personal and internal business use under LM Studio's terms (Element Labs, Inc., effective 23 August 2026), with no source published. The `lms` CLI and the TypeScript and Python SDKs are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-19 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-06-01 |
| 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 | 5.8k stars | 69k npm/wk, 15k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |