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LibreChat

LibreChat
open source / Overall score: 3.6

LibreChat is a self-hosted web chat application that puts models from providers such as Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI and Azure behind one interface. It adds agents with MCP tool support, a sandboxed code interpreter, artifacts, web search and multi-user sign-in through OAuth2, SAML or LDAP. ClickHouse acquired the project in 2025 and now stewards it.

Openness

5 high confidence
5.0
license
MIT(OSI)
source
public
core features withheld
no

LibreChat is released under the MIT license, and its repository holds the full source with no enterprise or license-key directories.

  • https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/danny-avila/LibreChat@main/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-29

    LICENSE file at the repository root on the main branch; it opens "MIT License" and grants use, copy, modification and distribution under "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy" of the software. Its copyright line names LibreChat.

  • https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/danny-avila/LibreChat@main/README.md recorded 2026-09-29

    Repository README on the main branch: "LibreChat is a self-hosted AI chat platform that unifies all major AI providers in a single, privacy-focused interface." and "Open source, actively developed, and built for anyone who values control over their AI infrastructure."

  • https://clickhouse.com/blog/clickhouse-acquires-librechat recorded 2026-09-29

    ClickHouse press release announcing the acquisition; calls LibreChat "a leading open-source AI chat platform" and says operations continue with "ongoing investment in the open-source project and community". Searched the body for MIT and license: neither appears.

  • https://data.jsdelivr.com/v1/packages/gh/danny-avila/LibreChat@main recorded 2026-09-29

    File listing of the main branch (1,764 files) whose top level includes "docker-compose.override.yml.example", "librechat.example.yaml" and "rag.yml". Searched the listing for ee, enterprise and license-key directories or files: none present; the only LICENSE files are the root one and packages/data-schemas.

  • https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat recorded 2026-08-13

    MIT license; full-featured self-hosted chat UI

  • https://www.librechat.ai/docs/local recorded 2026-09-29

    Install page: "Install LibreChat yourself with Docker, npm, or a Helm chart." Searched the body for MIT, license and source code: no license is named.

Adoption

3 medium confidence
3.0

GitHub stars are the only usable signal for LibreChat: the image people actually run is hosted on GHCR, which publishes no pull count, and neither the Docker Hub mirror's count nor the vendor's own claimed figure can be reconciled with any registry. Actual deployment is almost certainly higher than stars alone can show, since a star reflects attention rather than use.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/danny-avila/LibreChat recorded 2026-08-14

    GitHub API for danny-avila/LibreChat - 41,995 stars, 8,686 forks, 201 watchers, MIT. A countable signal; no user or deployment count is published anywhere.

  • https://api.github.com/repos/danny-avila/LibreChat recorded 2026-08-14

    GitHub API for danny-avila/LibreChat: 42,002 stargazers, 8,687 forks, 201 watchers, MIT. The digest differs from the other read of the same endpoint because the star and fork counts moved.

  • https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat recorded 2026-06-04

    MIT self-hosted chat platform with broad provider support. The page carries no Docker-pull figure.

  • https://www.librechat.ai/ recorded 2026-08-14

    vendor counter reading "42k GitHub Stars", "47.3M Docker Pulls", "387 Contributors". The star figure matches the GitHub API; the pull figure is roughly 65x what Docker Hub's own API accounts for across the whole librechat org and cannot be checked, since the primary image is on GHCR.

Capability

5 high confidence
5.0

LibreChat covers the standard chat-interface features and adds agents with subagents, MCP tools, a sandboxed code interpreter, artifacts, web search, user memory and a retrieval API for chatting with files. Multi-user authentication covers OAuth2, SAML and LDAP.

  • https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat recorded 2026-08-13

    feature list: multi-provider, code interpreter, MCP, agents/subagents, artifacts, OAuth2/LDAP

  • https://www.librechat.ai/ recorded 2026-09-29

    Homepage titled "LibreChat - The Open-Source AI Platform"; lists "AI model selection including Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Azure, and more" among its features.

  • https://www.librechat.ai/docs/features recorded 2026-09-29

    Feature overview: "Execute Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust, and more — securely sandboxed with zero setup", "Generate React components, HTML pages, and Mermaid diagrams directly inside chat.", "Multi-user auth with OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, and more", "Enterprise-ready SSO with OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, and two-factor authentication", "RAG API (Chat with Files)", "Automated Moderation" and memory described as "Persistent context across conversations so your AI remembers preferences and history"; navigation also lists MCP, Agents, Subagents and Web Search.

Verified 2026-09-20