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LobeChat vs BotSharp
LobeChat has 83,716 GitHub stars, 16,033 forks, 922 open issues and last shipped yesterday. BotSharp has 3,116 stars, 657 forks, 48 open issues and last shipped yesterday. LobeChat leads on adoption by 2,587% (83,716 vs 3,116 stars). LobeChat is written in TypeScript under a custom or non-standard licence; BotSharp is written in C# under Apache-2.0. LobeChat has attracted 19% as many forks as stars, BotSharp 21%. LobeChat was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| LobeChat | BotSharp | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 84K | ★ 3.1K |
| License | Custom / other | Apache-2.0 |
| Written in | TypeScript | C# |
| Last push | 2026-11-02 | 2026-11-02 |
| Forks | ⑂ 16K | ⑂ 657 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick LobeChat if
- You weight community size — 84K stars and counting
- You want the Custom / other license terms
- Your stack matches TypeScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick BotSharp if
- You want the BotSharp feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the Apache-2.0 license terms
- Your stack matches C#
- You evaluated both and BotSharp fits your workflow better
About LobeChat
[![][image banner]][vercel link] LobeHub LobeHub organizes your agents into 7×24 operation. It hires, schedules, reports on your entire AI team. You stay in charge — without staying online. English · 简体中文 · [Official Site][official site] · [Changelog][changelog] · [Documents][docs] · [Blog][blog] · [Feedback][github issues link] [![][github release shield]][github release link] [![][docker release shield]][docker release link] [![][vercel shield]][vercel link] [![][discord shield]][discord link] [![][codecov shield]][codecov link] [![][github action test shield]][github action test link] [![][github action…
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About BotSharp
The Open Source AI Agent Application Framework Connect LLMs to your existing application focused on your business "Conversation as a platform (CaaP) is the future, so it's perfect that we're already offering the whole toolkits to our .NET developers using the BotSharp AI BOT Platform Builder to build a CaaP. It opens up as much learning power as possible for your own robots and precisely control every step of the AI processing pipeline." BotSharp is an open source machine learning framework for AI Bot platform builder. This project involves natural language understanding, computer vision and audio processing…
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Frequently asked questions
Is LobeChat or BotSharp more popular?
LobeChat has 83,716 GitHub stars and BotSharp has 3,116. LobeChat has the larger community by that measure.
Are LobeChat and BotSharp free?
Both are open source. LobeChat has no licence declared in this registry, and BotSharp is licensed under Apache-2.0. Both are free to self-host.
What is the difference between LobeChat and BotSharp?
LobeChat is written in TypeScript and BotSharp in C#. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, LobeChat or BotSharp?
Choose LobeChat if you want the larger community (83,716 stars) or its Custom / other licence terms. Choose BotSharp if its feature set, stack or Apache-2.0 licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.