# Lemonade vs Open WebUI (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Open WebUI's 51.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Open WebUI leads on security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do local inference. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side…

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Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Open WebUI's 51.8 (D), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Open WebUI leads on security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do local inference.

- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- Open WebUI: D 51.8, rank #664 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/open-webui.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 68; Schema & documentation, 70 against 60; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 54; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also Free to start without a card; Open source; No incidents deducted, where Open WebUI loses 8 points for them.
- Open WebUI, good for A household or team that wants one chat interface over local and hosted models, with shared knowledge bases, memories, tools and access control, on their own server. Ahead on Security & auth, 63 against 36; Maintenance & community, 91 against 76; Transparency & trust, 71 against 64.

| Category | Lemonade | Open WebUI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 68 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 60 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 54 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 63 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 91 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 71 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lemonade | Open WebUI |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | AMD and the Lemonade community | Open WebUI Inc. |
| Licence | Apache 2.0. Each backend (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, FastFlowLM and others) is downloaded separately under its own licence | Open WebUI License. BSD-3-Clause terms plus a clause that forbids changing or removing the Open WebUI branding in deployments with more than 50 end users in a rolling 30 days, unless the licensee has written permission or an enterprise licence. Code from before set commits stays under MIT or BSD-3-Clause (LICENSE_HISTORY), and contributors sign a CLA |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-21 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-07-07 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2025-12-31 |
| Customer content may train models |  | yes, with an opt-out |
| 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 |  | yes |
| Popularity | 5.8k stars | 153k stars |
| Agent reviews | none | 2.5/5 (2) |