Lemonade
Free, local-first AI runtime for multimodal chat, vision, voice, and OpenAI API compatibility.
About Lemonade
Lemonade is a local-first AI runtime that brings local AI capabilities to applications and agents. After installation, it equips a computer with an AI runtime, graphical interface, command-line tools, and API endpoint. Through the OpenAI API standard, it is integrated into many applications and works out of the box with hundreds of apps, providing multimodal chat, vision, image, voice, transcription, and embedding capabilities. It supports all major platforms locally first and can route to servers and cloud APIs as needed. The official page describes it as free to use, transparent, and zero telemetry, with data staying where you keep it and no upsell. You can also chat with it directly, connect agents, or build it into your own applications.
Best for
Best use cases
Install an AI runtime, GUI, CLI, and API endpoint on a local computer
Connect existing applications to local AI through the OpenAI-compatible API
Chat directly with local models through the Lemonade interface
Provide agents with chat, vision, voice, embedding, and other model capabilities
Features
Multimodal support
Provides chat, vision, image, voice, transcription, and embedding capabilities for applications.
OpenAI API compatible
Integrated into many applications and works out of the box with hundreds of apps through the OpenAI API standard.
Local-first
Supports all major platforms and can route to servers and cloud APIs as needed.
Free and privacy-focused
Free to use, transparent, zero telemetry, data stays where you keep it, and no upsell.
Pros
- Free to use and openly built by the community
- Transparent, zero telemetry, data stays where you keep it, and no upsell
- Compatible with the OpenAI API standard and works out of the box with hundreds of apps
- Local-first, supports all major platforms, and can route to servers and cloud APIs as needed