LobeHub vs LocalAI

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.

LobeHub and LocalAI are closely matched on maintenance health (99 vs 97). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
LobeHubLocalAI
Health score 99/100 97/100
Commits (11 mo) 6900 2821
Commits (last 3 mo) 2361 1205
Stars 83k 49k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 17 Sept 2026
Licence ⊘ Proprietary MIT
Built with Nodejs, Docker Docker, K8S
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

LobeHub

Modern design AI chat framework supporting multiple AI providers, one click install MCP Marketplace and Artifacts / Thinking.

99/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

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

Commit activity more than 98% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 375 commits 2025-11: 546 commits 2025-12: 546 commits 2026-01: 940 commits 2026-02: 378 commits 2026-03: 438 commits 2026-04: 583 commits 2026-05: 733 commits 2026-06: 741 commits 2026-07: 889 commits 2026-08: 731 commits

LocalAI

Run your AI models locally and generate images and audio (alternative to OpenAI and Claude).

97/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 37/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 93% of tracked projects; popularity more than 97%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 163 commits 2025-12: 195 commits 2026-01: 182 commits 2026-02: 179 commits 2026-03: 272 commits 2026-04: 288 commits 2026-05: 337 commits 2026-06: 365 commits 2026-07: 461 commits 2026-08: 379 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).