Lobechat
App in the BluixApps catalog
What it is
Lobe Chat is a premium ChatGPT UI with plugin marketplace, agent system, vision support, voice (TTS + STT), file analysis, and MCP support. Designer-quality interface, multi-LLM. Built for the AI power user who wants more than a chat box.
What it's for
- Power user AI workspace — beyond chat: plugins, agents, files
- Multi-modal AI — text + image + voice + files in one UI
- Custom AI personas — define agents with system prompts + tools
- MCP integration — connect external tools via Model Context Protocol
- Privacy-bound AI — self-hosted with localStorage conversations
Who it's for
- AI power users experimenting with advanced features
- Developers building AI workflows with MCP tools
- Designers preferring polished UI to spartan ChatGPT clones
- Privacy-conscious users wanting feature parity with ChatGPT
- Teams wanting "ChatGPT Plus on our infrastructure"
Why teams pick Lobe Chat over alternatives
- MIT license — fully open
- Plugin marketplace — real-time data, search, image gen, custom
- Agent system — Lobe Chat marketplace has 100+ agents
- Vision + voice — multi-modal first-class
- MCP support — beyond plugins to standard tool protocol
- Active development — backed by LobeHub with sustainable commercial cloud
Integrations
- LLM providers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Ollama, Mistral, Bedrock, OpenRouter, custom
- Plugins — web search, image gen, calculator, MCP tools
- Agent marketplace — community-contributed agents
- Voice — TTS via OpenAI / ElevenLabs / Edge; STT via OpenAI Whisper
- File analysis — PDF, CSV, images, code
- MCP servers — tool integration via standard protocol
- DALL-E / Midjourney — image generation in chat
Notable users & community
- 50k+ GitHub stars
- Used by Chinese AI community + global power users
- Backed by LobeHub with active commercial cloud
- Active Discord + GitHub Discussions
- Standard "premium feel" LLM UI in OSS
Tips & operations
- Access code mandatory — auto-generated on install
- localStorage default — chats per browser, not synced
- For persistent multi-user — use Lobe Chat Database edition (separate Postgres deployment)
- Plugin marketplace — review plugins before install (some are user-published)
- Voice setup — requires API keys for TTS/STT providers
- Resource-heavier than NextChat — 1 GB RAM recommended
What we ship in BluixApps
- Docker image:
lobehub/lobe-chat:latest - Auto-generated access code (16 char)
- Port 3210 exposed
- Stateless single-user mode by default
- Database edition (multi-user persistent) documented for upgrade
- HTTPS via Let's Encrypt reverse proxy
- Plugin marketplace accessible after install
Get this app — pick a BluixApps plan
Same catalog. Scaling tenant isolation, white-label and support tier.
| Tier | Tenants | Catalog | Support | White-label | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stacks | 1 | 19 curated stacks | Standard | — | $19/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Starter | 10 | Full catalog | Standard | +$15–25/mo | $49/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Pro | 25 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $149/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Growth | 100 | Full catalog | Priority bugfix | +$15–25/mo | $349/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Scale | 500 | Full catalog | 7-day window | +$15–25/mo | $799/mo | DetailDeploy |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Full catalog | Priority 7-day | Bundled | $1,499/mo | DetailDeploy |