{"slug": "librechat", "name": "LibreChat", "category": "communication", "category_name": "Email and chat", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 9, "warners": 0, "score": 4.075, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-03", "latest": "2026-10-09", "why": "the interface and it's MCP story is much more solid", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 6, "compare": 1, "warn": 0}, "spark": [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "the interface and it's MCP story is much more solid", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "librechat.ai", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://www.librechat.ai", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["LibreChat"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 770826436, "item_id": 48176652, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176652", "by": "rsolva", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the interface and it's MCP story is much more solid", "excerpt": "Nowadays I use our local setup 95% of the time, but it is not that long since that flipped for me personally. Context: I have a $20 Claude Code subscription, and have used it for a handfull of small-ish projects the last year, in parallel with local models on my AMD 9700XTX (24GB) at home. Mostly Ministral 14B and more recently Qwen3.6 27B Dense 4q. 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I use it through tmux and iSH on my iPhone - librechat. nice UI but honestly I probably jsut use pi more often - copyparty. to visually inspect whatever I create with pi, and to access my documents, to upload files I need on the server quickly and easily from any device", "context": "", "use_case": "chat UI for LLMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"}, {"id": 797868258, "item_id": 49866766, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49866766", "by": "KlyX", "date": "2026-09-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Workplace-related we use ChatGPT 5.4/5 with LibreChat as Chatlayer.", "excerpt": "I mostly use Claude - model depends and goes from Sonnet up to Fable (mostly Opus right now, Sonnet for easier task and Fable only seldom for very specific). Workplace-related we use ChatGPT 5.4/5 with LibreChat as Chatlayer. Would love to use Mistral more (as EU alternative), but my last test (though quite a while ago) I was a bit disappointed. May look into it again soon.", "context": "", "use_case": "chat frontend at work", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Which model do you use for work?"}, {"id": 790271489, "item_id": 49391968, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391968", "by": "paweladamczuk", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use pi and librechat and I am really limited by the lack of proper web connector.", "excerpt": "Care to share your setup? I use pi and librechat and I am really limited by the lack of proper web connector. Testing Tavily right now, Kagi is next. I wonder why I see so few comments about it on HN, does everybody have this figured out already? Am I a dummy? Am I severely overstating how important of a frature web access and search is for LLM use?", "context": "", "use_case": "LLM chat interface", "switched_from": "", "story": "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"}, {"id": 787905569, "item_id": 49244098, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49244098", "by": "Roark66", "date": "2026-08-10", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "The moe works well in Librechat", "excerpt": "I've been using Qwen3.6 models locally for a couple of weeks. Both the A3B moe and the dense variant. The moe works well in Librechat combined with my local search/Web retrieval system. All components use open source projects such as SearXNG, Crawl4AI, MetaMCP, Jina rerank, but all needed quite a bit of coding to work nicely together. I get 140 tok/s on short prompts on an rtx3090 on the qwen3.6 moe which makes is ea", "context": "", "use_case": "local chat frontend", "switched_from": "", "story": "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"}, {"id": 770826436, "item_id": 48176652, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48176652", "by": "rsolva", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "the interface and it's MCP story is much more solid", "excerpt": "Nowadays I use our local setup 95% of the time, but it is not that long since that flipped for me personally. Context: I have a $20 Claude Code subscription, and have used it for a handfull of small-ish projects the last year, in parallel with local models on my AMD 9700XTX (24GB) at home. Mostly Ministral 14B and more recently Qwen3.6 27B Dense 4q. 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Personally, I use Raycast for all my personal work", "context": "", "use_case": "team chat UI", "switched_from": "", "story": "Launch HN: Onyx (YC W24) \u2013 Open-source chat UI"}, {"id": 732802065, "item_id": 45800129, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45800129", "by": "bdhtu", "date": "2025-11-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat", "excerpt": "GitHub links: - https://github.com/janhq/jan - https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat - https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "OSS Alternative to Open WebUI \u2013 ChatGPT-Like UI, API and CLI"}]}