LibreChat Self Host Guide

What is LibreChat

LibreChat: Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features OpenAI, GPT-4 Vision, Mistral, Bing, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, AI model switching, message search, langchain, DALL-E-3, ChatGPT Plugins, OpenAI Functions, Secure Multi-User System, Presets, completely open-source for self-hosting. More features in development.

Features of LibreChat

🤖 AI model selection:

OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, BingAI, ChatGPT, Google Vertex AI, Anthropic (Claude), Plugins, Assistants API (including Azure Assistants)

✅ Compatible across both Remote & Local AI services:

groq, Ollama, Cohere, Mistral AI, Apple MLX, koboldcpp, OpenRouter, together.ai, Perplexity, ShuttleAI, and more

💬 Multimodal Chat:

Upload and analyze images with Claude 3, GPT-4 (including gpt-4o and gpt-4o-mini), and Gemini Vision 📸 Chat with Files using Custom Endpoints, OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, & Google. 🗃️ Advanced Agents with Files, Code Interpreter, Tools, and API Actions 🔦 Available through the OpenAI Assistants API 🌤️ Non-OpenAI Agents in Active Development 🚧

How to Self Host LibreChat

There are several ways to self host LibreChat, including using Docker-Compose, Zeabur, Railway, Sealos or other platforms.

LibreChat requires 5 services: LibreChat, Rag-API, MongoDB, MeiliSearch and PostgreSQL, which makes it hard to self host with docker on your own machine. Zeabur provides a one-click deployment for it, so this article will take Zeabur as the example.

Step 1

Before you start, you've to make sure you have an account on Zeabur. If you don't have an account, you can create one here.

Step 2

After you've successfully created an account, you can follow the steps below to deploy LibreChat on Zeabur:

Press on the deploy button below to deploy LibreChat on Zeabur.

You will be redirected to the Zeabur dashboard, where you can see the LibreChat deployment. Within one minute, you will see 5 services starts running.
Now you can access the LibreChat using the domain you've bound to it.

Here is a more detailed guide for deploying LibreChat on Zeabur.

Frequently Asked Questions

LibreChat vs LobeChat

LibreChat provides a more powerful configs and rag support.

Cost to Host LibreChat on Zeabur

You just need to pay $5 Developer Plan fee for Zeabur.