Will StreamBuilder auto off the stream in stateless widget?
No, it won't close the Stream, but it will close the StreamSubscription that is used to build the Widget.
If the Stream is not going to be used for anything else, the best would be to dispose the Stream somehow (by wrapping it on a StatefulWidget or by using a BlocProvider approach).
If you are using a Stream somewhere else or you will use the Stream in the future you don't need to worry about leaking memory for its use on a StreamBuilder. As long as you dispose it whenever everyone else stops using it.
The StreamBuilder itself extends from StreamBuilderBase which is a StatefulWidget, and it handles the StreamSubscription with its own dispose method.
This is an excerpt from the async.dart library.
/// State for [StreamBuilderBase].class _StreamBuilderBaseState<T, S> extends State<StreamBuilderBase<T, S>> { StreamSubscription<T> _subscription; @override void initState() { //... _subscribe(); } @override void dispose() { _unsubscribe(); super.dispose(); } void _subscribe() { if (widget.stream != null) { _subscription = widget.stream.listen((T data) { //... } } void _unsubscribe() { if (_subscription != null) { _subscription.cancel(); _subscription = null; } }}As you can see, the StreamSubscription is initialized on the initState and automatically canceled on the dispose call of the State, so the subscription used here will be always closed and you don't need to worry about it.
No, it won't auto close. In general the owner of the stream is the one who manages the stream state.
A good solution in my opinion is to make a stateful widget own your BLoCs and close the streams in its dispose method.
This article shows a possible way to implement this, have a look at the BlocProvider class.