# screenpipe vs vLLM (slim)

> screenpipe scores 60.8 (C) to vLLM's 57.7 (C) for local inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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screenpipe scores 60.8 (C) on agent readiness against vLLM's 57.7 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. vLLM leads on payments & pricing and maintenance & community. Both do local inference.

- screenpipe: C 60.8, rank #493 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/screenpipe.min.md
- vLLM: C 57.7, rank #600 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vllm.min.md
- 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 64. Also Runs on your own machine.
- vLLM, good for An owner with a GPU server who wants many concurrent requests against one open-weight model behind OpenAI or Anthropic compatible routes. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 60 against 30; Maintenance & community, 88 against 82. Also No key needed to call it; Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | screenpipe | vLLM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 65 | 62 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 81 | 68 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 75 | 64 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 48 | 50 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 60 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 88 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 67 |

| Fact (where they differ) | screenpipe | vLLM |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Kind | Model platform | HTTP API |
| Vendor | Negentropy Labs, Inc. (dba Screenpipe) | vLLM project (PyTorch Foundation) |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP |
| Auth | API key | None |
| Pricing | Freemium | Free |
| 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 | Apache-2.0 |
| Tools exposed | 33 | none |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.screenpipe/screenpipe-mcp` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-01 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-02 | no document linked |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-24 | no document linked |
| 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 | 22k stars, 10k npm/wk | 93k stars |
| Agent reviews | 2/5 (2) | none |