lemonade-sdk/lemonade
Lemonade helps users discover and run local AI apps by serving optimized LLMs right from their own GPUs and NPUs. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/5xXzkMu8Zk observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
82/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 87
- Longevity 33
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 6.0
- age_days: 475
- days_rel: 7
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 69
Adoption not part of the score
5472 stars · 478 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Lemonade is a local AI server that runs optimized LLMs (plus image, speech, and embedding models) on your own GPU and NPU, exposing OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Ollama-compatible APIs plus an MCP gateway. It ships as an installable service with GUI/CLI, an embeddable portable binary for bundling into apps, and includes AMD-specific optimizations for Ryzen AI, Radeon, and Strix Halo hardware.
Use cases
- run local llm server with openai-compatible api on my pc
- serve llama or qwen models on amd radeon gpu or ryzen ai npu
- self-host a private chatgpt alternative with no telemetry
- embed a local ai runtime into my desktop application
- connect local llm to apps like open webui or coding agents
- run an mcp server backed by local models
- generate images and speech locally on windows
- manage and download local llm models with a gui
When to choose
- you want cloud-API-style local inference that works out-of-box with hundreds of existing apps
- you're on AMD Ryzen AI, Radeon, or Strix Halo hardware and want vendor-optimized performance
- you need multi-modal local AI (chat, vision, image, speech, embeddings) from one service
- you want to bundle a private, customizable AI runtime into your own application
- you need OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama API compatibility plus MCP from a single server
When to avoid
- you need large-scale multi-node or cloud inference rather than single-PC local serving
- you're locked into a specific inference stack like vLLM or TensorRT-LLM server features
- you only need a lightweight library call rather than a running HTTP service
- your target hardware lacks GPU/NPU acceleration and CPU-only speed is insufficient
Facets
service · maturity active
llm-inference http-server mcp sdk cli gui speech-recognition tts image-processing rag large-language-models artificial-intelligence self-hosted developer-tools machine-learning windows self-hosted cpp python local-ai openai-api-compatible npu amd-ryzen-ai radeon vulkan rocm llama-cpp onnxruntime ollama-compatible anthropic-compatible model-manager privacy embeddable linux macos docker gpu
7 sources
- readme: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade · fetched 2026-08-28 · e494f4b3ee33
- homepage: https://lemonade-server.ai/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · c1887400b3f8
- site_page: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/embeddable · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9f6295bedfa5
- site_page: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/api · fetched 2026-08-29 · cce9a1f0241f
- site_page: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/dev/philosophy · fetched 2026-08-29 · 1462410a7ef1
- site_page: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/dev/contribute · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8cced5839567
- site_page: https://lemonade-server.ai/docs/dev/release · fetched 2026-08-29 · 440b404c0fb2
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| lemonade-sdk/lemonade | main | 82 |
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