Product / UX / UI & API

Lobe Chat

Modern-design open source chat framework supporting OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Azure, DeepSeek and others, with knowledge bases, vision/TTS, plugin marketplace, and one-click deployment. Chosen for its polished UI and breadth of multi-modal/plugin support compared to barebones alternatives; ~77k GitHub stars makes it the second-most-starred OSS chat UI.

v2.2.2 (June 4, 2026); repo rebranded lobehub/lobehub. License changed from MIT to a non-OSI 'LobeHub Community License' (Apache-2.0 based + derivative-distribution commercial restriction). Product now markets agent-team orchestration but remains a human-driven chat UI at core.

Openness

2 high confidence

2.0

license: LobeHub-Community-License(Apache-2.0-based, non-OSI: commercial license required to develop+distribute a derivative work
source: public
cloud-tier: LobeHub Cloud

Source-available, not OSI: distributing a derivative work requires a commercial license, and the CLA lets LobeHub relicense contributions for its cloud editions. Both exceed Apache-2.0, though it is still presented publicly as open source. Score corrected from 3 to 2 on 2026-07-30. The software ladder has rungs at 1, 2, 4 and 5 and none at 3, so 3/source_available was not a pair any rule could produce; the ladder scores "you can read it and not run it freely" at 2.

https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat/blob/main/LICENSE recorded 2026-06-04
LobeHub Community License (Apache-2.0 based) requiring a commercial license to distribute derivative works; non-OSI
https://github.com/lobehub/lobehub recorded 2026-06-04
v2.2.2 latest; 78.2k stars; self-host + LobeHub Cloud tiers

Adoption

3 low confidence

3.0

78.2k GitHub stars, 15.4k forks; Docker image (lobehub/lobehub) and LobeHub Cloud exist but no verified pull/MAU figure was obtainable from a primary source this run. Capped at 3 on stars fallback per rubric.

https://github.com/lobehub/lobehub recorded 2026-06-04
78.2k stars, 15.4k forks; Docker + Cloud deployment

Capability

4 medium confidence

4.0

Strong feature surface across model breadth, MCP plugins, knowledge base and multi-user. Below Open WebUI/LibreChat on enterprise auth/RAG depth verifiability; agent-orchestration framing edges toward orchestration_agents but core remains human-driven chat.

https://github.com/lobehub/lobehub recorded 2026-06-04
feature list: multi-model, 10,000+ MCP skills, agent groups, knowledge base, memory

Unchanged since 2026-07-30 (last edited, not re-checked)