# lemonade-sdk/lemonade

> A local AI server that runs optimized LLMs, whisper, TTS, and image generation on the user's GPU and NPU, exposing OpenAI-, Anthropic-, and Ollama-compatible APIs. Available as a service or an embeddable binary for apps.

- Magnitude: 1.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 5,810 total · +1 star today, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Language models · Language: C++ · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2025-05-15 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/lemonade-sdk/lemonade · Homepage: https://lemonade-server.ai/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/lemonade-sdk/lemonade

## Useful for

- Run a local LLM server with an OpenAI-compatible API for your apps
- Download and run a GGUF model via CLI using lemonade pull and lemonade run
- Connect local models to third-party apps through OpenAI, Anthropic, or Ollama APIs

## Why it’s here

- 1 star so far today, about 3 expected by the end of the day.
- GitHub Trending C++ today: #20, +10 stars.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @kou (633 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 513
- Issues and pull requests: 3,646
- Watchers: 34
- Average over the last week: 5 per day
- Usual pace: 9 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1
- Latest release: v2026.40.0 (2026-09-30)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 17, 17, 13, 9, 14, 13, 9, 10, 9, 9, 7, 6, 10, 10, 7, 11, 10, 3, 6, 10, 7, 8, 7, 6, 4, 5, 1, 7, 11, 1

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending C++ today: #20, +10 stars

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Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-01 13:52 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.