LibreChat
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Artificial intelligence chatbot service |
| Access | Faculty, Staff, Students |
| Platform | Web |
Description
LibreChat is an online service that provides a secure interface to a variety of Artificial Intelligence (AI) language models, including ChatGPT and Claude.
All the models used are private and none of them train on data entered to the site.
Getting Started
- Must be on campus or using SwatVPN
- Go to librechat.ai.swarthmore.edu
- Log in with your Swarthmore Google account
- Orienting to the screen (see the graphic below for a visual representation):
- On the upper left you will find a dropdown of the different AI companies
- To the right of that, another dropdown allows you to select the specific AI model you’d like to experiment with.
- At the bottom of the page is where you enter your prompt. A prompt can be entered as text or you can speak your prompt using the microphone at the far right of the prompt field.
- Start experimenting by entering text in the chat box
Models
LibreChat provides several different AI models from leading companies as well as open-weights (non-proprietary) options. This list changes frequently. The list below shows options as of Summer 2026.
| Model Name | Suggested Use | Quota Guidance |
|---|---|---|
| claude-fable-5 | Frontier flagship for the most demanding/complex tasks | Premium |
| claude-opus-5 | Current Anthropic flagship for complex reasoning | High |
| claude-sonnet-5 | General workhorse — best Claude price/performance | Medium-High |
| claude-opus-4-8 | Older-gen flagship | High |
| claude-haiku-4-5 | Fast, cheap Claude tier for lightweight tasks | Medium |
| gpt-5.6-sol | Flagship agentic coding | High |
| gpt-5.6-terra | Balanced general tier | Unknown / Verify |
| gpt-5.6-luna | High-volume frontier-class model | Low |
| grok-4.3 | General use | Low-Medium |
| gemma-4-31b | Current-gen dense flagship, general use | Very Low |
| gemma-4-e2b | Tiny edge-class model — cheapest in catalog | Minimal |
| deepseek-v3.2 | General/reasoning tasks | Low |
| qwen3-next-80b | Fast general use | Low |
| qwen3-235b | Primary general-purpose Qwen model, cheapest output | Low |
| qwen3-coder-next | Coding-focused tasks | Low |
| glm-5 | Flagship agentic coding | Low-Medium |
| glm-4.7-flash | Ultra-cheap, high-volume tasks | Minimal |
| kimi-k2.5 | General use with built-in reasoning | Low-Medium |
| minimax-m2.5 | Agentic/coding-focused tasks | Low |
| mistral-large-3-675b | Mistral flagship, general use | Low |
| devstral-2-123b | Dedicated coding tasks | Low-Medium |
| ministral-3-14b-instruct | Best small Ministral model, symmetric I/O pricing | Minimal |
| voxtral-small-24b-2507 | Audio-input tasks (only audio model in list) | Minimal |
| nemotron-super-3-120b | Current Nemotron flagship, general use | Very Low |
| nemotron-nano-3-30b | Small model, excellent price/performance | Minimal |
Use Cases and Ideas
- Ask the AI tool to generate ideas for a title of a blog post or project
- Copy and paste some text and ask to refine or simplify
- Upload a file and ask to generate a summary.
Other Notes
- There are additional features such as Agents, Assistants, and Plugins that aren't fully configured by ITS yet and may not work.
- LibreChat tools can create diagrams and provide code but cannot generate files such as image files or PDFs. You can upload files and the AI can interpret them, but it cannot generate new files.
Troubleshooting
File Uploads
Some AI models can only handle uploads using certain file types. If you get an error when trying to upload a file, start a new chat, then select the "Upload as Text" option, which converts the contents of the file to text before sending it to the AI model.