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Lemonade

Lemonade SDK
open source / Overall score: 2.5

Lemonade is a local AI server that runs chat, coding, speech and image models on the user's own NPU and GPU, exposing OpenAI-, Anthropic- and Ollama-compatible APIs that hundreds of apps can connect to. It installs on Windows, macOS and Linux with GGUF and ONNX backends, and an embeddable binary packages the same runtime into other applications. The community builds it with optimizations from AMD engineers for Ryzen AI, Radeon and Strix Halo PCs.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
Apache-2.0(OSI
source
public
core features withheld
no — free local server

Lemonade's LICENSE is the unmodified Apache-2.0 text; the attribution blocks that follow it credit vendored third-party components under their own permissive licenses rather than adding any condition to Lemonade itself. The product is entirely free and self-hosted, with nothing withheld.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/lemonade-sdk/lemonade recorded 2026-09-01

    Repo metadata for lemonade-sdk/lemonade - archived false, license Apache-2.0, 5,560 stars, homepage https://lemonade-server.ai/, pushed 2026-09-01.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-10-07

    LICENSE body, read in full: unmodified Apache-2.0 terms ending at END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS, "Copyright 2026 Lemonade Community", then vendored-component attribution sections (Lucide, amdxdna_accel.h, llama.cpp, Ollama, TurnkeyML, aixlog), each MIT-family, with no added condition on the product itself.

  • https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade/main/README.md recorded 2026-10-07

    README, read for a paid tier (none - "100% free and private"): local AI server with OpenAI/Anthropic/Ollama APIs, Lemonade Server and Embeddable Lemonade flavors, Windows/macOS/Linux/Docker/Snap/PPA distribution, chat, image gen, speech gen and transcription models on NPU and GPU.

Adoption

2 low confidence
2.0

Lemonade ships as OS installers, Docker images, a Snap and a PPA, none of which this map's pipeline can count, and the PyPI package once used for adoption no longer exists. That leaves GitHub stars as the only measurable signal, though a star reflects attention rather than actual use.

Capability

3 medium confidence
3.0

Lemonade sits two tiers below vLLM, level with llamafile and uzu among the local engines. Its NPU support and multi-modal coverage are broader than those other single-node engines, but it runs on llama.cpp and ONNX Runtime underneath and has no distributed or datacenter serving surface.

Verified 2026-09-27