Self-hosting

Reference

Use Letta Code with a self-hosted Letta server

Letta Code can connect to a self-hosted Letta server instead of the Letta Developer Platform. When self-hosting, you are responsible for setting up your own LLM providers and LLM API keys.

Prerequisites

Before connecting Letta Code to a self-hosted server, you need to have a Letta server running. See the self-hosting guide for detailed setup instructions.

Quick start with Docker (see the full guide for more options):

docker run \
  -v ~/.letta/.persist/pgdata:/var/lib/postgresql/data \
  -p 8283:8283 \
  -e OPENAI_API_KEY="your_openai_api_key" \
  letta/letta:latest

Connecting Letta Code

Set the LETTA_BASE_URL environment variable to point to your server:

export LETTA_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8283"

Then run Letta Code normally:

letta

You can also set it inline:

LETTA_BASE_URL="http://localhost:8283" letta