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Open-WebUI

User-friendly AI Interface, supports Ollama, OpenAI API.

★ Stars156k156,135 on GitHub
Last commit18 Oct 2026
LicenceBSD-3-ClausePer the project
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User-friendly AI Interface, supports Ollama, OpenAI API.

Who it suits

  • Organisations of any size: Open WebUI says it's “built for scale”, “from startups to global enterprises”.

From openwebui.com, checked 19 Oct 2026. Quotes are the project's own words.

Self-hosting requirements

Runs withDocker, Python
DockerYes
awesome-selfhosted lists Docker as a way to deploy it.

Sources: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted-data/blob/master/software/open-webui.yml, 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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