lemonade alternatives

Tools that could take the place of lemonade, ranked by the stacks builders put them in rather than by stars alone.

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    Native local LLM inference server for Apple Silicon with OpenAI and Anthropic

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    Run huge MoE models privately on your own GPUs with OpenAI-compatible API.

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    CLI proxy that compresses shell command output before it reaches an LLM.

  • flashinferRuntimesdoes the same work6.9k

    GPU kernel library for fast LLM inference: attention, GEMM, MoE, sampling.

  • Rapid-MLXRuntimesdoes the same work4.1k

    OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible MLX inference server for Apple Silicon tuned

  • claude-code-localRuntimesdoes the same work3.5k

    Local MLX inference server that serves open models to Claude Code via Anthropic

  • MTPLXRuntimesdoes the same work2.7k

    Fast local LLM inference engine for Apple Silicon with native MTP speculative

  • OllamaRuntimessame type186.2k

    Run open models locally and serve an OpenAI-compatible API.

  • llama.cppRuntimessame type133.6k

    Run quantised models locally, with an OpenAI-compatible server.

  • vLLMRuntimessame type96.5k

    A high-throughput inference and serving engine for GPUs.

  • caddyRuntimessame type78.9k

    Extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS.