Lemonade

Lemonade is a local LLM runtime that aims to deliver the highest possible performance on your own hardware by auto-configuring state-of-the-art inference engines for both NPUs and GPUs. The project positions itself as a “local LLM server” you can run on laptops and workstations, abstracting away backend differences while giving you a single place to serve and manage models. Its README emphasizes real-world adoption across startups, research groups, and large companies, signaling a focus on practical deployments rather than toy demos. The repository highlights easy onboarding with downloads, docs, and a Discord for support, suggesting an active user community. Messaging centers on squeezing maximum throughput/latency from modern accelerators without users having to hand-tune kernels or flags. Releases further reinforce the “server” framing, pointing developers toward a service that can be integrated into apps and tools.