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Fig vs. LibreChat

A great open-source chat client, or a platform your company runs on.

LibreChat is the drop-in ChatGPT replacement for teams that want every model provider behind one MIT-licensed interface, with the deepest MCP support in open-source chat. Fig starts from the same model freedom and builds the rest of the company around it: Slack, mobile, and desktop, connectors into your systems, Enterprise Graph context, and governed agents — as a managed platform billed on usage.

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Fig vs. LibreChat, in short

LibreChat is a free, MIT-licensed, self-hosted chat client with the broadest model-provider list and deep MCP support; Fig is a managed workplace platform. LibreChat runs only in a browser, knows your company only through uploaded files, and has no SCIM or audit log — you operate its four or five services. Fig runs in Slack and on every device, grounds answers in Enterprise Graph context, ships SSO, SCIM, and audit export, and bills usage from one shared pool with no seats.

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Fig vs. LibreChat at a glance

FeatureFigLibreChat
Getting started
Self-serve today. No seat minimum, no sales cycle to begin.
Docker in five minutes — then you run four or five services.
Pricing model
Usage only. No seats; unlimited members; one shared credit pool.
Free (MIT); you pay for keys, hosting, and operations.
Models
Frontier models from multiple labs, routed per task.
Bring your own keys; the broadest provider list.
Where it runs
Slack (in-channel), desktop, mobile, and web.
Web app only; no mobile, desktop, Slack, or Teams.
Connectors & actions
Native connectors, computer use, MCP, approval gates on actions.
Deep MCP and OpenAPI actions; no company-system connectors.
Company context
Enterprise Graph: people, teams, projects, activity; follows source permissions.
Per-upload file RAG only.
Agents
Agent Builder, Orchestration, Governance — on the same usage pool.
No-code Agent Builder with tools, skills, and sharing.
Admin & compliance
SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM 2.0, scoped roles, audit export, break-glass re-auth.
SAML, OIDC, LDAP; no SCIM, no audit log, no certifications.
Deployment
Managed cloud only; no on-prem or air-gapped option.
Self-hosted anywhere.

Included   Partial or with conditions   Not offered

$0per seat, at any team size
Unlimitedmembers on one shared usage pool
Every labfrontier models, routed per task
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Pricing: Fig vs. LibreChat

Fig

No seats, no license, no servers. Team members are free to add, and usage is billed from your team's shared credit pool — you only pay for what the team actually consumes.

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LibreChat

$0 for the software under MIT. Everything around it is yours to pay for: model API spend, web-search API keys, hosting for four or five services (reviewers measure roughly 1.5 GB of RAM idle), and the engineering time to configure, upgrade, and secure it. There is no support contract to buy even if you want one.

LibreChat's bill is infrastructure and headcount; Fig's is usage. LibreChat wins on price if you already have engineers with time to run it and don't need it outside a browser.

Fig vs. LibreChat in detail

The best open-source chat client is still a chat client

LibreChat earns its reputation: every major provider behind one interface, agents with real tools, and MCP support engineers describe as the most serious in the space. What it is not is a workplace platform. It runs only in a browser, has no Slack or mobile surface, and knows nothing about your company except the files someone uploads. Fig starts where LibreChat stops — in Slack and on phones, connected to the systems your team works in, with Enterprise Graph context that follows source permissions.

Connectors →Enterprise Graph →

Five services, four config files

A production LibreChat deployment is LibreChat, MongoDB, Meilisearch, Redis, a separate RAG API, an Admin Panel still marked preview, and a code interpreter sandbox — configured across an .env file, a YAML file, and two compose files, with restarts to apply changes. That's a fine trade for a team with a platform engineer to spare. Fig is the version where none of that exists on your side of the line.

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Governance you configure vs. governance you get

LibreChat's authentication is unusually strong for open-source software — SAML, OIDC, LDAP, Entra group sync, 2FA. Past login, it stops: no SCIM provisioning, no audit log, and a permissions GUI still in preview. Fig ships SSO through any SAML or OIDC provider, SCIM 2.0 for users and groups, scoped roles, approval gates on agent actions, and an exportable audit log as part of the platform.

Security & governance →Agent governance →

Which is right for you?

Choose Fig if

Teams that want model flexibility delivered as a managed platform — in Slack, on desktop and mobile, connected to their systems, with company context and governed agents — billed on usage rather than on the engineers it takes to run open-source infrastructure.

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Choose LibreChat if

Engineering-led organizations that want a free, MIT-licensed, multi-provider chat client over their own API keys, are comfortable operating and extending a multi-service deployment, and don't need it outside a browser or connected to company systems out of the box.

Frequently asked questions

Is Fig an alternative to LibreChat?

If you want the outcome — every frontier model available to the whole team — without running it, yes. Fig adds what LibreChat leaves to you: Slack, mobile, and desktop surfaces, connectors into company systems, Enterprise Graph context, and governance like SCIM and audit export, as a managed platform billed on usage. If your requirement is specifically a self-hosted, MIT-licensed chat client, LibreChat is built for that.

Is LibreChat really free?

Yes — the software is MIT-licensed with no paid tiers, and the formerly paid code interpreter was open-sourced under ClickHouse in 2026. The costs are everything around it: model API keys, third-party web-search keys, hosting for several services, and the engineering time to configure, upgrade, and secure the deployment.

Does LibreChat connect to Slack or my company's data?

Not out of the box. LibreChat runs in a browser with no Slack, Teams, or mobile apps; Metabase, for example, wrote its own Slack bot on top of it. Company knowledge is limited to files users upload, through a separately deployed RAG API, with no permission inheritance from source systems. Fig runs in-channel in Slack, connects natively to your systems, and grounds answers in Enterprise Graph context.

Which has stronger admin controls?

LibreChat's login layer is strong — SAML, OIDC, LDAP, Entra group sync, 2FA — with role-based permissions and a GUI in preview, but no SCIM, no audit log, and no certifications. Fig provides SSO via SAML or OIDC, SCIM 2.0 user and group provisioning, scoped roles, approval gates on agent actions, and an exportable audit log.

Who owns LibreChat now?

ClickHouse acquired LibreChat in November 2025 and has kept it fully open-source under MIT. ClickHouse's managed offering, ClickHouse Agents, is a public beta scoped to analytics for ClickHouse Cloud customers — not a general-purpose hosted LibreChat.

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