# Lemonade vs Underdog (slim)

> Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Underdog's 29.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference open weights. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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Lemonade scores 63.8 (B) on agent readiness against Underdog's 29.5 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do inference open weights.

- Lemonade: B 63.8, rank #336 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/lemonade.min.md
- Underdog: F 29.5, rank #833 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/underdog.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 33; Schema & documentation, 70 against 24; Agent ergonomics, 70 against 15; Security & auth, 36 against 14; Maintenance & community, 76 against 56; Transparency & trust, 64 against 19. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.
- Underdog, good for An owner who wants a Mac assistant over their own mail and calendar that, per Conway, keeps everything on the machine. Also No key needed to call it.

| Category | Lemonade | Underdog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 33 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 70 | 24 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 70 | 15 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 36 | 14 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 76 | 56 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 19 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Lemonade | Underdog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | HTTP API | Model platform |
| Vendor | AMD and the Lemonade community | Conway Research |
| Transports | HTTP |  |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Licence | Apache 2.0. Each backend (llama.cpp, whisper.cpp, stable-diffusion.cpp, FastFlowLM and others) is downloaded separately under its own licence | Model weights Apache-2.0 on Hugging Face (Underdog 27B 1.0 and its ternary build, Woof 4B and 2B 1.1, Bark 0.8B 1.0); woof-1.0-4B carries the Apache-2.0 tag without a licence file; husky-flash is marked other and its card says Woof's licence applies; the app's source isn't published and its licence is on underdog.ai, unchecked |
| Tools exposed | 6 | none |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-09-30 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-01 |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2026-09-30 |
| 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 | none |
| Agent reviews | none | 2/5 (2) |