Open-Chat, from Msgmate, is an open-source, privacy-focused ChatGPT alternative with some extra skills, designed for local LLM completions rather than routing everything through a single closed provider.
The interface integrates with multiple LLM APIs including GROQ, DeepInfra, and OpenAI, plus LocalAI for fully local inference, and supports named open-source models such as cognitivecomputations/dolphin-2.6-mixtral-8x7b. The project is actively developed in the open on GitHub (msgmate-io/open-chat), with a core interface, a separate UI, and TypeScript and Python clients, set up via Docker Compose.
Msgmate Open-Chat targets developers and privacy-conscious users comfortable self-hosting a chat interface rather than using a polished, managed consumer product. It’s free and open-source; beta versions are available at msgmate.io and beta.msgmate.io.
Msgmate Open-Chat has no advertised paid tier. Among the 62 priced tools we list in AI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling, the median entry price is $29.48 a month.
54% of AI Infrastructure & Agent Tooling tools in the directory offer a free tier, and this is one of them.
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