lemonade

lemonade is a local inference server - 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.

Overview

Lemonade is the local AI server that gives you the same capabilities as cloud APIs, except 100% free and private. Use the latest models for chat, coding, speech, and image generation on your own NPU and GPU.

• Lemonade Server installs a service you can connect to hundreds of great apps using standard OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama APIs. * Embeddable Lemonade is a portable binary you can package into your own application to give it multi-modal local AI that auto-optimizes for your user’s PC.

This project is built by the community for every PC, with optimizations by AMD engineers to get the most from Ryzen AI, Radeon, and Strix Halo PCs.

1. Install: Windows · Linux · macOS · Docker · Source 2. Get Models: Browse and download with the Model Manager 3. Generate: Try models with the built-in interfaces for chat, image gen, speech gen, and more 4. Mobile: Take your lemonade to go: iOS · Android · Source 5. Connect: Use Lemonade with your favorite apps:

Lemonade supports a wide variety of LLMs (GGUF, FLM, and ONNX), whisper, stable diffusion, etc. models across CPU, GPU, and NPU.

Use 'lemonade pull' or the built-in Model Manager to download models. You can also import custom GGUF/ONNX models from Hugging Face.

lemonade is open-source, written primarily in C++, with 4,236 GitHub stars under the Apache 2.0 license. The latest release is v10.6.0 (2026-05-21).

Key capabilities

From the project's documentation:

• Committers and reviewers: Maintainers of this repo
• Built with C++ (server) and React (app) with ❤️ for the open source community,
• Standing on the shoulders of great tools from:
• Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
• Portions of the project are licensed as described in LICENSE.

How it fits a local-AI stack

lemonade runs on your own hardware, so pair it with a model and a GPU sized to your needs. Use the VRAM calculator to pick a model that fits your card, and see what you can run for hardware guidance. Related local inference servers in the directory:

• ExLlamaV2
• llama.cpp
• LocalAI
• Ollama

Sources

• Source code & docs: lemonade-sdk/lemonade
• Official website: https://lemonade-server.ai/

Stats from GitHub, 2026-06-08.