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Foundry Local vs Lemonade: catalog facts
Foundry Local	Lemonade
Free Free to download from Microsoft.	Free Free to use, with no paid tier mentioned.
Windows, macOS, Command line	Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line
Runs models entirely on the device Hardware-accelerated local inference	Chat, vision, image, speech, transcription and embeddings in one runtime Comes with a GUI, a CLI and API endpoints
Oriented toward developers building applications Licence terms are not stated in the research used here	Hardware support details are not covered on the homepage An embeddable SDK means some features are aimed at developers rather than end users
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Closed source	Closed source
License not stated	License not stated
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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