# The best LibreChat alternative

Onyx connects AI to your company's knowledge with 40+ native connectors, automated syncing, and permission-aware search. LibreChat gives you a chat UI. Onyx gives you an AI platform.

| Feature | Onyx | LibreChat |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Integrated Company Knowledge | +33 more<br>40+ indexed enterprise connectors | Manual file uploads only |
| Permission syncing from source systems | Yes | No |
| Self-hosted & open-source | Yes | Yes |
| Admin dashboard & web UI | Yes | CLI scripts & YAML files |
| Code execution | Yes | Paid API subscription |

## Pricing Comparison

**Onyx**  
$20/user/month

**LibreChat**  
Free (MIT). No official paid tier.

Try Business edition on our Cloud ($20/user/month). 14-day free trial. No credit card required.

Enterprise edition adds SLAs, dedicated support, and white-labeling.

Free to self-host the chat UI, but you pay for your own LLM API keys, and features like code interpreter require a separate paid subscription. No managed cloud option.

## Detailed Comparison

### Enterprise Knowledge vs. File Upload

**Onyx**  
Onyx continuously crawls and indexes data from 40+ enterprise tools: Slack, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Salesforce, and more. Your AI always has up-to-date company knowledge without anyone manually uploading files. Permission syncing ensures users only see what they have access to.

**LibreChat**  
LibreChat's RAG uses LangChain + PGVector and works exclusively on files that users manually upload. There's no shared organizational knowledge base, no admin-curated document collections, and no way to automatically pull from enterprise tools. The SharePoint integration is a read-only file picker, not automated sync. If your team's knowledge lives in Slack threads, Confluence pages, or Google Docs, LibreChat can't reach it.

### Agents & Code Execution

### Enterprise Readiness

### Search & Retrieval Quality

## Which is Right for You?

**Onyx is best for**  
- Teams that need AI grounded in their company's actual knowledge across Slack, Confluence, Google Drive, and more  
- Organizations that require permission-aware access control, SOC 2 compliance, and audit trails  
- Companies deploying AI across departments that need an admin dashboard, not YAML files  
- Teams that have outgrown file-upload RAG and need AI that stays current with their organization automatically

**LibreChat is best for**  
- Hobbyists and developers who want a unified UI for experimenting with different LLMs  
- Individual users who want a self-hosted ChatGPT-like interface with their own API keys  
- Tinkerers comfortable managing configuration through YAML files and CLI scripts  
- Small teams that don't need enterprise search, compliance, or centralized knowledge management