Open WebUI vs LibreChat: Which Is More Actively Maintained? Live GitHub Data
Open WebUI and LibreChat are self-hosted chat interfaces for language models. Open WebUI is often paired with Ollama for local models, while LibreChat brings many model providers into one ChatGPT-style interface. This page compares how actively each project is maintained, using live data from GitHub.
GitHub data checked 18 minutes ago.
Side by side
| Measure | Open WebUI | LibreChat |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active | Active |
| Commits, last 91 days | 2,142 | 1,589 |
| Same 91 days a year earlier | 1,799 | 409 |
| Change vs last year | +19% | +289% |
| Last commit | 16 Oct 2026 | 17 Oct 2026 |
| GitHub stars | 156,074 | 45,933 |
| Stars gained, daily snapshots | +169 in 2 days | +69 in 1 day |
| Licence | Custom | MIT |
| Managed cloud | Not checked | Not checked |
| Visitor rating | —0 of 3 ratings needed | —0 of 3 ratings needed |
What the numbers say
In the last 91 days, Open WebUI’s default branch received 2,142 commits and LibreChat’s received 1,589. The two are within a similar range. Against the same 91 days a year earlier, Open WebUI is at +19% and LibreChat at +289%. The index labels both “active”. Open WebUI has 156,074 GitHub stars and LibreChat has 45,933; stars show how many people bookmarked a project, not how many use it. Their licences differ: Open WebUI uses a non-standard licence and LibreChat uses MIT. GitHub does not recognise Open WebUI’s licence as a standard one, so read it before commercial use.
What this comparison does not tell you
These are maintenance signals only. They do not measure speed, output quality, features, documentation or how easy either tool is to run, and we have not benchmarked either tool for this page. A quiet repository can still be a good fit for a stable job, and a busy one can still break between releases. Use the numbers to decide what to check next, not which tool is better.
Each tool’s full record
How this is measured: commits on each repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; stars, licence and archived flag from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Visitor ratings come from visitors to each tool’s page, not from EvalAITools.