OpenBot is a general-purpose, multi-model AI chatbot for streaming and continuing conversations across providers.

🔑 Key features

• 💬 Streaming multi-model chat — Google Gemini, Groq Llama, and Ollama models, rendered token-by-token with markdown and mermaid.
• 🗂️ Persistent conversations — every message is saved; reload a past chat and the full history hydrates.
• 🧩 Per-request model selection — the available set is derived from which provider keys are configured.
• 🔐 Authentication — email/password with verification, plus Google OAuth, via Clerk.
• 🗃️ Conversation management — sidebar list, create/delete, search, and shareable /c/[id] routes.
• 📱 Responsive shell — persistent sidebar on desktop, slide-in drawer on mobile.

🛠️ Installation guide

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/Gazi2050/OpenBot.git
cd OpenBot

2. Install dependencies

pnpm install

3. Create .env

Copy from .env.example and set:

# ---- Backend ----
DATABASE_URL=
PORT=3000
# CLERK_SECRET_KEY also need in frontend too
CLERK_SECRET_KEY=
CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=
GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY=
GROQ_API_KEY=
OLLAMA_API_KEY=

# ---- Frontend ----
PUBLIC_API_URL=http://localhost:3000
PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=
PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_IN_URL=/
PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_IN_FALLBACK_REDIRECT_URL=/
PUBLIC_CLERK_SIGN_UP_FALLBACK_REDIRECT_URL=/

4. Start the database

docker compose up -d

5. Run the development server

pnpm dev

📚 Docs

• 📄 Features — full feature documentation
• 🎨 Design system — design spec

🚀 Live

• Frontend: https://openbott.vercel.app
• API: https://openbot-api.vercel.app/api/health