# Lemonade vs screenpipe (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against screenpipe's 60.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. screenpipe leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, security & auth, maintenance & community and transparency & trust. Both do local inference. Category…

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Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against screenpipe's 60.8 (C), and leads in 2 of 7 scored categories. screenpipe leads on schema & documentation, agent ergonomics, 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
- screenpipe: C 60.8, rank #446 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.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 65; Payments & pricing, 60 against 30. Also 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 70; Agent ergonomics, 75 against 70; Security & auth, 48 against 36; Maintenance & community, 82 against 76; Transparency & trust, 70 against 64. Also Runs on your own machine.

| Category | Lemonade | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 75 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 48 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 30 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 82 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 70 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lemonade | screenpipe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | AMD and the Lemonade community | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Apache 2.0. Each backend (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, FastFlowLM and others) is downloaded separately under its own licence | 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 | 6 | 33 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.screenpipe/screenpipe-mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 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 | 5.8k stars | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |