Lemonade: Local AI for Text, Images, and Speech

# Refreshingly open intelligence.

Lemonade makes local AI the new default for apps and agents: free to use, private by design, and built for flexibility by a welcoming community.

Chat with Lemonade just like a cloud AI, connect to your favorite agent, or even build it into your own app. The choice is yours!

## Up and running in minutes.

Installation equips your computer with an AI runtime, GUI, CLI, and API endpoints for your AI journey.

## Quick Start

Learn how to add native support or an embedded copy of Lemonade in your app.

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### Truly open

Free to use, shaped in public, and built with a community that welcomes builders.

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### Fully private

Transparent, zero telemetry. Data stays where you put it. No upsell.

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### Omni modal

Your app gets chat, vision, image, speech, transcription, and embeddings.

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### Scalable platform

Local-first on all major platforms. Routes to servers and cloud APIs on-demand.

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## Built in the open, with you.

Industry veterans, AI enthusiasts, and an ever-growing crew of innovators and builders, shaping the future of local AI together.

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### hub The roadmap is steered by open working groups

Built alongside the open-source engines that power local AI

## Works with great apps.

Lemonade is integrated in many apps and works out-of-box with hundreds more thanks to the OpenAI API standard.

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## Always innovating.

We ship a new release every week. Track the latest highlights below and read our release process.

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