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Lobe Chat

LobeHub

Chat framework supporting OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, Azure and DeepSeek among others, with knowledge bases, vision and text-to-speech, an MCP skill marketplace, agent groups and memory. It offers one-click deployment for self-hosting alongside a hosted tier. The repository has been rebranded from lobe-chat to lobehub.

The licensing changed during 2026, so the openness axis follows the current LICENSE rather than the one this record was first written against. Verified 2026-08-13 via the lobehub repository and its LICENSE.

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 rather than OSI-approved: distributing a derivative work requires a commercial license, and the contributor licence agreement lets LobeHub relicense contributions for its cloud editions. Both go beyond Apache-2.0, though the project is still presented publicly as open source. Software that you can read but cannot freely run scores 2 on this scale.

Adoption

3 low confidence
3.0

81,647 GitHub stars and 15,804 forks on lobehub/lobehub, which falls in the >10K stars band, level 3 on the stars scale. A Docker image (lobehub/lobehub) and LobeHub Cloud both exist, but no verified pull or monthly-active-user figure is obtainable from a primary source and none appears on the repository or in the README, so stars are the only countable signal - and a stars-based band cannot exceed level 3, because a star is attention rather than use.

Capability

4 medium confidence
4.0

Strong feature surface across model breadth, MCP plugins, knowledge base and multi-user. It sits below Open WebUI and LibreChat on how far enterprise authentication and RAG depth can be verified. The agent-orchestration framing edges toward an orchestration product, but the core remains human-driven chat. The knowledge-base and multi-model wording has dropped out of the README in favour of agent-team framing, though neither feature has been withdrawn from the product.

Verified 2026-08-13