Bytedesk vs LibreDesk
Bytedesk and LibreDesk are both live chat software. Bytedesk is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 512 GitHub stars. LibreDesk is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.1k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bytedesk when
- You want a self-hosted Intercom-style chat with AI agents and can operate a Java service.
- Pick LibreDesk when
- A small team wants a lightweight self-hosted Intercom or Zendesk replacement that is easy to deploy.
Side by side
Team chat plus omnichannel customer service with live chat, email, tickets and LLM-based chatbots using RAG.
A customer support desk for email, live chat and WhatsApp, with shared inbox, automations and SLAs, distributed as a single Go binary.
Chinese-first project and community, AGPL licence, and some features sit in a commercial edition.
About 18 months old with one main maintainer.
Usable (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Java and JavaScript
Go, Vue, PostgreSQL and Redis
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
512 GitHub stars
3.1k GitHub stars
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v5.0.0.
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v2.9.2.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.