Agenta vs LobeHub

Agenta

• Teams that want to self-host their agent platform under an MIT license
• Paying by usage for a whole team instead of per seat
• Recurring jobs such as research briefs, code review and reports

LobeHub

• People who want several agents working on scheduled tasks in the cloud
• Reaching agents from Slack, Discord, Telegram or WhatsApp
• Developers who want to self-deploy an agent workspace and use their own API keys

Agenta

• AI model costs are not included: you connect your own provider credentials and pay the provider directly.
• The Hobby plan stops running agents after 5,000 runs in a month and allows 2 team members and 20 evaluations a month.
• On Agenta Cloud, SSO and role-based access control start at Business ($299 a month); audit logs and custom domains are Enterprise only.
• Running agents on a Claude or ChatGPT subscription works only on a self-hosted deployment, not on Agenta Cloud.

LobeHub

• Cloud usage is metered in credits that reset monthly; the Free plan's 500,000 credits are about 70 messages on GLM-5.3-Flash.
• GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Kimi K3 are marked Subscription required on the Free plan.
• The docs note that the desktop app is not fully offline: cloud models, sync and online tools still need a connection.
• The code uses the LobeHub Community License, based on Apache 2.0: distributing a derivative work needs a commercial license.

Agenta

Agents built by chatting

You describe the job in chat and refine the agent's instructions and skills as you go. Prebuilt templates cover engineering, support, sales, knowledge and operations.

Automations and triggers

An agent can run on a schedule or start when an event happens in a connected tool, such as a new pull request. Every run is logged with its duration and estimated cost.

Integrations, MCP and skills

Agents work across more than 1,000 integrations and any MCP server you add. Skills are reusable instruction files that can be swapped without rewriting the agent.

Harness and model choice

Three harnesses ship with it: Claude Code, Pi and Codex. Models come from your own provider accounts, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, AWS Bedrock and Azure OpenAI.

Permissions, approvals and a secret vault

You decide which actions run automatically, which wait for approval and which are blocked. Credentials sit in a vault the agent can use but cannot read.

Tracing, evaluations and versions

Each run produces a trace of its model and tool calls, tokens and latency. Agent changes are versioned and can be compared, and evaluations include LLM-as-a-judge.

LobeHub

Agent Builder

Describe the agent you need in a sentence and its name, role, skills and behavior are set up automatically, ready to use or to adjust.

Agent Groups

Several agents work on one task as a team: the system picks the agents for the job, runs them in parallel and iterates on the result.

Skills and MCP marketplaces

Agents are connected to skills and MCP servers from community marketplaces. The homepage counts more than 334,000 skills and 106,000 MCP servers.

Messaging channels

The docs cover channels for Slack, Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, WeChat, iMessage, LINE, Lark, Feishu and QQ, so agents answer in the chat apps you already use.

Pages, schedules and projects

Pages are documents written with several agents in a shared context, scheduled tasks run agents at set times, and projects keep related work together.

Personal memory

Agents build a structured memory of how you work that you can read and edit. Agent Memory is listed on the Starter plan and above.

Agenta

• Hobby$0

  Agenta Cloud with 2 team members, unlimited projects, agents and workflows, 5,000 agent runs a month and 1-week trace retention.

• Open source$0

  Self-hosted edition with unlimited users, agents and runs, role-based access control, SSO, tracing and evaluations. You run it yourself with Docker Compose.

• Pro$29

  per month, any number of users

  Unlimited team members, schedules and event triggers, 10,000 agent runs a month, then $5 per additional 10,000, and 1-month trace retention.

• Business$299

  per month, any number of users

  Everything in Pro plus team roles and role-based access control, SSO, a SOC 2 Type II report, 3-month trace retention and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Cloud or self-hosted, with audit logs, custom domains, deployment support, dedicated support and a custom service-level agreement.

LobeHub

• Free$0

  500,000 credits a month, 15 MB of file storage, 100 vector entries, and email and community forum support.

• Community EditionFree

  The open-source edition, self-deployed with Docker or a cloud host under the LobeHub Community License and run on your own model API keys.

• Starter$9.9

  per month, billed yearly ($118.8); $12.9 billed monthly

  5,000,000 credits a month, 1 GB of file storage, 5,000 vector entries, Agent Memory and early access to new models.

• Premium$19.9

  per month, billed yearly ($238.8); $24.9 billed monthly

  15,000,000 credits a month, 2 GB of file storage, 10,000 vector entries and priority email support.

• Ultimate$39.9

  per month, billed yearly ($478.8); $49.9 billed monthly

  35,000,000 credits a month, 4 GB of file storage, 20,000 vector entries and priority chat and email support.

• Enterprise EditionCustom

  Private deployment with a commercial license, brand theming, user management, self-hosted providers, private models and custom integration.

Agenta

• Startups

  Discounted or free access for startups

  The pricing FAQ says early-stage startups can email the team to ask about discounted or free access, describing what they are building and how they plan to use Agenta.

• Education

  Discounts for students and researchers

  The same FAQ invites students and researchers to email the team about discounted or free access. No fixed rate is published.

LobeHub

• Annual discount

  20% off with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing as 20% off: Starter is $118.8 a year instead of $12.9 a month, Premium $238.8 instead of $24.9 and Ultimate $478.8 instead of $49.9.

• Education

  50% off for students and educators

  The pricing FAQ offers eligible students and education institutions a 50% discount code, requested by email from a school address with proof of status.