82.8k stars · LobeHub Community License — Apache 2.0 with added conditions. NOT plain Apache-2.0, although GitHub's About sidebar says so · v2.2.15 (2026-08-28, ungh) · Track this in Scout
A self-hosted place to run and supervise several AI assistants, formerly the chat interface LobeChat.
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What it is
LobeHub is a web application you host. It connects to many AI providers through one interface, and it now organises assistants as ongoing workers with schedules, approvals and reports rather than as a single chat window. Release v2.2.15, dated 28 August 2026, merged 235 changes from thirteen people.
What it is good for. Anyone who has outgrown one chat window and wants several assistants working on different things, with a record of what each one did. It is also for anyone who wants one interface across several AI providers instead of a separate tab for each. The ledger recorded this project as returning a 404 on 17 September 2026; that was the rename from lobehub/lobe-chat, not a removal.
- One interface in front of many AI providers, so changing model does not mean changing tools.
- Very actively developed. Code landed on the day this edition was written.
- Approvals and interventions are built in, so a long-running job can be stopped and restarted rather than abandoned.
- The licence is not what the sidebar says. GitHub shows Apache-2.0. The
LICENSEfile is the "LobeHub Community License": Apache 2.0 plus conditions. Running it commercially as it comes is allowed. Developing and distributing a derivative work requires a commercial licence bought from the company. - Every message costs money at whichever AI provider it is pointed at. Several assistants running on a schedule is several bills running on a schedule.
- It is a large application. The setup script pulls a full Docker Compose stack, and an
OPENAI_API_KEYis required before anything answers.
open-webui/open-webuiCovered in Edition 23; a larger self-hosted AI interface, and its licence also adds conditions, in its case about removing the branding.
Track this in Scout- danny-avila/LibreChat
A self-hosted chat interface with multi-user logins and agents, under a plain MIT licence.
Track this in Scout - ChatGPTNextWeb/NextChat
Much lighter and faster to deploy, and correspondingly does far less.
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bash <(curl -fsSL https://lobe.li/setup.sh) docker compose up -d
