# vercel/chatbot

A full-featured, hackable Next.js AI chatbot built by Vercel

Repository: https://github.com/vercel/chatbot
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/chatbot
Homepage: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ai, nextjs, shadcn-ui, vercel, chatgpt, react, redis
Last push: 2026-07-08T21:55:02+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 70/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 91, release rhythm 35, longevity 85
- inputs: {"age_days": 1202, "days_push": 56, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 20876, forks 6738 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:30.497589+00:00)

## What it is
A full-featured, hackable Next.js AI chatbot template built by Vercel on top of the AI SDK, with chat history persistence, authentication, artifacts, and multimodal support. It ships with shadcn/ui components, Auth.js authentication, Neon Postgres and Vercel Blob storage, and one-click deployment to Vercel.

## Use cases
- build a custom ai chatbot app
- deploy my own chatgpt-like assistant
- nextjs chatbot starter template with auth and chat history
- chatbot with artifacts like claude or canvas
- self-host a chatbot with multiple llm providers
- add generative ui and tool calls to a chat app
- multimodal chatbot with file and image uploads

## When to choose
- you want a production-quality, hackable chatbot foundation on Next.js and React
- you plan to deploy on Vercel with Neon Postgres and Vercel Blob
- you need built-in auth, chat sharing, artifacts, and streaming responses
- you want to swap between OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, and other providers via the AI SDK

## When to avoid
- you need a simple embeddable chat widget rather than a full application
- you are not using the React/Next.js ecosystem
- you want a backend-agnostic or non-Vercel-first deployment without extra setup
- you need a lightweight library to add chat to an existing app instead of a template

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: chatbot, chat-interface, web-framework, auth, llm-inference, rag, file-upload, state-management
- domain: chatbots, artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, web-development, frontend, self-hosted
- platform: self-hosted, cloud
- tags: nextjs, ai-sdk, vercel, shadcn-ui, chat-template, artifacts, typescript, starter-template, nodejs, web-server, docker

## Member repositories
- vercel/chatbot (main) score 70

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.497589+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:58:31.595055+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/vercel/chatbot (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:30.497589+00:00, sha 433548594224)
  - homepage: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.429684+00:00, sha ae424084ad56)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/en/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.438691+00:00, sha 9c42603aa020)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.440571+00:00, sha 0d0dcdae49b6)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/architecture (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.442272+00:00, sha 1c51a56c7d67)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/deploying (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.444142+00:00, sha 63ff4235f12f)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/setup (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.445726+00:00, sha b212c9f5d274)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/customization/artifacts (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.447203+00:00, sha bdec749167b4)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/customization/fonts (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.449185+00:00, sha fea98cff8c00)
  - site_page: https://chatbot.ai-sdk.dev/docs/customization/models-and-providers (fetched 2026-08-29T07:57:34.450881+00:00, sha 6ad45ab5eb64)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.