Lobe Chat - AI Chat Apps Tool

Overview

Lobe Chat is an open-source AI chat framework for quickly deploying private, modern chat applications. It integrates multiple AI providers and supports multimodal interactions, knowledge base uploads, branching conversations, plugins, and function calling.

Key Features

• Open-source framework for chat applications
• One-click deployment for private chat instances
• Multi-AI provider integration (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, DeepSeek, Qwen)
• Chain-of-thought and branching conversation support
• Knowledge base management with file upload
• Multi-modal interactions including TTS and STT voice
• Text-to-image generation capabilities
• Plugin system with function calling

Ideal Use Cases

• Deploy private, self-hosted chat assistants
• Compare outputs across multiple AI providers
• Build multimodal voice-and-image chat experiences
• Add file-backed knowledge bases for retrieval
• Prototype plugins and function-calling workflows

Getting Started

• Clone the repository from the project GitHub URL
• Install project dependencies per repository instructions
• Configure credentials for your chosen AI providers
• Run the provided deployment or launch locally
• Upload files to the knowledge base as needed
• Enable and configure plugins or function calls

Pricing

Pricing is not disclosed in the repository. The project is open-source; hosting and AI provider usage costs are determined by your chosen infrastructure and providers.

Limitations

• Requires configuring and managing external AI provider credentials
• Functionality and cost depend on chosen models and hosting

Key Information

• Category: Chat Apps
• Type: AI Chat Apps Tool