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LibreChat vs SillyTavern

LibreChat

librechat.ai

SillyTavern

sillytavern.app

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FigureLibreChatSillyTavern
Price fromFreeFree
Free planYesYes
Free trial——
Open source—Yes
WebYesYes
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
Android—Yes
APIYesYes
Self-hostedYesYes
Plans published11
Spec score · Byok System8.5 (#6)8.4 (#9)
AudienceThe project describes itself as built for developers, teams, and enterprises that need control.The project describes itself as a tool for savvy AI hobbyists and power users who want control over their LLM prompts.
IntegrationsLibreChat supports Model Context Protocol for connecting AI models to external tools and services.SillyTavern supports local and cloud LLM backends, including KoboldCpp, llama.cpp, Ollama, OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, OpenRouter, and AI Horde.
SupportThe project directs users to GitHub Discussions and Discord for questions and community help.The project directs users to its Discord community, GitHub issues, and documentation for help.

Plans

LibreChat

  • LibreChatFree

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SillyTavern

  • SillyTavernFree

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In their own words

LibreChat

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SillyTavern

SillyTavern is a locally installed interface for interacting with text-generation models, image-generation engines, and text-to-speech voice models. Users can create, import, and switch between character cards, then return to chat histories or review them. The interface includes group chats, lorebooks, personas, prompt controls, chat commands, scripting, and built-in retrieval-augmented generation. Extensions can add character sprites, chat summarization and translation, image generation, text-to-speech, and web search. SillyTavern works with local and cloud model backends, including KoboldCpp, llama.cpp, Ollama, OpenAI, Claude, Mistral, OpenRouter, and AI Horde. The project says it will remain free and open source under AGPL-3.0 and provides no hosted service. It says it does not programmatically track user data, though cloud providers may log information sent to them. Local use requires a system supporting NodeJS 20 or higher; documentation recommends an NVIDIA 3000-series GPU with at least 6GB of VRAM for local inference. The app was not designed for very large character libraries, and performance can degrade above 1,000 characters.

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