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Hugging Face Chat UI

The open-source code behind HuggingChat, for running your own chat site on any OpenAI-compatible model

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Last commit19 Oct 2026
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Chat UI is the SvelteKit app that powers HuggingChat. You can host it yourself and point it at any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including llama.cpp, vLLM or Ollama, with conversations stored in MongoDB.

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Runs withDocker, Node.js
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The project README documents running it with Docker.

Sources: github.com/huggingface/chat-ui, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs with” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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