ChatGPT vs LobeHub
ChatGPT and LobeHub are both AI assistants software. ChatGPT is a commercial product from OpenAI. LobeHub is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 84k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick ChatGPT when
- You want the most widely used general AI assistant, with business plans that keep your data out of training.
- Pick LobeHub when
- You want a polished multi-model chat and agent workspace, hosted or self-hosted.
Side by side
OpenAI's AI assistant for chat, writing, coding, image generation, web search, file analysis and agent tasks, with Team and Enterprise plans.
An AI workspace for chatting with many model providers and organising agents that run scheduled tasks, with knowledge bases, plugins and MCP, as web, desktop or hosted service.
Answers can be confidently wrong, and staff using personal accounts can leak company data.
Its community licence restricts commercial derivative works, and self-hosting the server version needs Postgres and object storage.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Self-hosted server, cloud service and desktop app
Not published
TypeScript, Next.js, React, Drizzle and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by OpenAI
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
731k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
84k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 3 years ago, latest release v2.3.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.