Picking a Runtime

assistant-ui offers a variety of runtimes for different use cases.

New Chatbot

The following runtimes are recommended for new apps:

• Edge
• LangGraph Cloud
• Trieve

Edge Runtime

The Edge Runtime is assistant-ui's native runtime.

LangGraph Cloud

The LangGraph Cloud runtime lets you build stateful agents with LangGraph.

Trieve

Build chatbots that can interact with your content with Trieve.ai, one of the most powerful RAG APIs.

Vercel AI SDK

If you are already using the Vercel AI SDK, there are four ways to integrate:

• Edge Runtime with Data Stream Protocol
• [useChat Runtime]
• [useAssistant Runtime]
• [RSC Runtime]

Already using one of our supported backends

We have native integrations for the following backends:

• LangGraph
• Trieve
• Vercel AI SDK

Already using a custom backend

For custom backends, we have two entrypoints for integration:

• Custom REST API
• External Store