LibreChat vs Onyx Community Edition

Both are self-hosted generative artificial intelligence (genai) projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

LibreChat and Onyx Community Edition are closely matched on maintenance health (94 vs 94). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
LibreChatOnyx Community Edition
Health score 94/100 94/100
Commits (11 mo) 1517 5483
Commits (last 3 mo) 945 1694
Stars 45k 32k
Latest release 23 Sept 2026 27 Sept 2026
Licence MIT MIT
Built with Nodejs, Docker Docker, K8S
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

LibreChat

Enhanced ChatGPT-compatible AI chat interface supporting multiple AI providers, with multi-user auth, message search, and plugin support.

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 86% of tracked projects; popularity more than 96%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 0 commits 2026-02: 0 commits 2026-03: 192 commits 2026-04: 137 commits 2026-05: 243 commits 2026-06: 279 commits 2026-07: 194 commits 2026-08: 472 commits

Onyx Community Edition

Chat UI that works with any LLM. It comes loaded with advanced features like agents, web search, RAG, MCP, deep research, Connectors to 40+ knowledge sources, and more.

94/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity more than 92%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 274 commits 2025-11: 295 commits 2025-12: 478 commits 2026-01: 546 commits 2026-02: 567 commits 2026-03: 559 commits 2026-04: 556 commits 2026-05: 514 commits 2026-06: 612 commits 2026-07: 640 commits 2026-08: 442 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted generative artificial intelligence (genai).