# LibreChat

> Open-source, self-hosted chat interface for many AI providers

LibreChat is a free, MIT-licensed web application that you host yourself to chat with models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock and other providers in one interface. It adds agents with file handling and API actions, a sandboxed code interpreter, artifacts, MCP tool connections, web search, memory and multi-user sign-in with SSO. ClickHouse acquired the project in November 2025, and it remains MIT-licensed.

- **Category:** AI Assistants
- **Made by:** LibreChat (ClickHouse)
- **Website:** https://www.librechat.ai
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 5, 2026

## Pricing

LibreChat is free to use.

- **Pricing model:** Free
- **Free plan:** Free and open source under the MIT license, with no subscriptions. You host it yourself and add your own model API keys; a public demo is offered for evaluation only.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | The full self-hosted application, including agents, the code interpreter, MCP, web search and SSO, under the MIT license. |

Read from https://www.librechat.ai/about on Oct 5, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with LibreChat before buying.

## Key features

- **Many providers in one interface:** Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure and AWS Bedrock out of the box, and custom endpoints add Ollama, Mistral AI, OpenRouter and other services.
- **Agents:** Build custom assistants with tools, file handling, code execution and API actions without writing code.
- **Code Interpreter:** Runs Python, JavaScript, Go, Rust and other languages in a sandbox. It is powered by an Apache 2.0 code-execution service that you deploy and point LibreChat at.
- **MCP and web search:** Connects models to external tools through Model Context Protocol servers and gives any model live internet access with built-in search and reranking.
- **Artifacts and chat tools:** Generates React components, HTML pages and Mermaid diagrams in chat, and supports forking, shareable links, temporary chats and importing conversations from ChatGPT.
- **Multi-user authentication:** Sign-in through OAuth2, SAML or LDAP with two-factor authentication, plus an admin panel for users, roles and configuration, and moderation tools.

## Good for

- Teams that want a self-hosted chat interface they can audit and extend
- Organizations that need SSO and control over where chat data lives
- Using API keys from several model providers in one place

## Worth knowing

- It is a self-hosted web application: the docs say there is no native Windows app or Linux AppImage, and no hosted paid plan is offered.
- You run it yourself with Docker, npm or a Helm chart and supply your own model API keys.
- The public demo at chat.librechat.ai is for evaluation only and is not meant for private data.
- The code interpreter, message search and file chat rely on extra services you deploy: a code-execution service, Meilisearch and the RAG API.

## Works with

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Azure, AWS Bedrock, Ollama, OpenRouter, Meilisearch

**Tags:** Chat assistant, Open source, Self-hostable, AI agents, AI search, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Open WebUI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/open-webui): Self-hosted chat interface for local and cloud AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/librechat-vs-open-webui)
- [AnythingLLM](https://toolgpa.com/tools/anythingllm): Open-source AI app for documents, agents and local models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/anythingllm-vs-librechat)
- [NextChat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/nextchat): Lightweight open-source AI chat client you can self-deploy. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/librechat-vs-nextchat)
- [Big-AGI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/big-agi): Multi-model AI workspace that compares and merges answers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/big-agi-vs-librechat)
- [HuggingChat](https://toolgpa.com/tools/huggingchat): Hugging Face's open-source chat app for open AI models. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/huggingchat-vs-librechat)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 5, 2026:

- https://www.librechat.ai/about
- https://www.librechat.ai/
- https://www.librechat.ai/docs
- https://www.librechat.ai/docs/features
- https://www.librechat.ai/docs/features/code_interpreter
- https://www.librechat.ai/docs/configuration/pre_configured_ai
- https://www.librechat.ai/tos
- https://clickhouse.com/blog/librechat-open-source-agentic-data-stack

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