Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, with built-in inference engine for RAG, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.
🚀 Effortless Setup: Install seamlessly via pip, uv, Docker, or Kubernetes (kubectl, kustomize, or helm), with :ollama and :cuda tagged images available for container deployments.
🤝 Broad Model & API Integration: Connect any OpenAI-compatible API alongside local Ollama models. Point the API URL at LMStudio, GroqCloud, Mistral, OpenRouter, vLLM, and more to mix and match providers freely.
🔐 Granular RBAC & User Groups: Administrators define detailed roles, groups, and permissions, giving each user exactly the access they need. Secure by default, with tailored experiences per group.
🧩 Plugin Support: Extend Open WebUI with Filters, Actions, Pipes, Tools, and Skills. Connect external services through MCP, MCPO, and OpenAPI tool servers. Build custom integrations, rate limits, approval flows, data connections, and more.
🤖 Models & Agents: Wrap any base model with custom instructions, tools, and knowledge to build specialized agents. Supports dynamic variables, per-user/group access control, and community preset imports via Open WebUI Community.
📝 Notes: A dedicated workspace for content outside conversations. Draft with a rich editor, use AI to rewrite selected text, and attach notes to any chat for full-context injection.
📢 Channels: Real-time shared spaces where your team and AI models collaborate in one timeline. Tag models to draft or critique, with threads, reactions, pins, and access control.
🧠 Persistent Memory: The AI remembers facts about you across conversations, carrying context from one chat to the next.
✅ Live Workflow & Message Flow: Watch the AI build and work through checklists in real time. Queue messages while the AI is still responding; they send automatically when it's ready.
📅 Calendar & AI Scheduling: Built-in personal and shared calendars with month/week/day views, recurring events, color coding, attendees, and reminders. Models manage your schedule conversationally through native function calling.
⏱️ Automations: Schedule prompts to run on recurring schedules, with runs surfaced on your calendar and each completed run linking back to the chat it produced.
📱 Responsive Design & PWA: Seamless experience across desktop, laptop, and mobile, with a Progressive Web App for native app-like feel and offline access on localhost.
✒️🔢 Full Markdown and LaTeX Support: Comprehensive Markdown and LaTeX capabilities for enriched interaction.
🎤📹 Hands-Free Voice/Video Call: Integrated voice and video calls with multiple Speech-to-Text providers (Local Whisper, OpenAI, Deepgram, Azure) and Text-to-Speech engines (Azure, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Transformers, WebAPI).
💾 Persistent Artifact Storage: Built-in key-value storage API for artifacts, enabling journals, trackers, leaderboards, and collaborative tools with personal and shared data scopes.
📚 Local RAG Integration: Retrieval Augmented Generation backed by 9 vector databases and multiple content-extraction engines (Tika, Docling, Document Intelligence, Mistral OCR, PaddleOCR-vl, external loaders). Supports hybrid search (BM25 + vector) with reranking and full-context mode. Load documents into chat or pull them from your library with the # command.
🔍 Web Search for RAG: Search the web through dozens of providers including SearXNG, Google PSE, Brave Search, Kagi, Mojeek, Tavily, Perplexity, Firecrawl, serpstack, serper, Serply, DuckDuckGo, SearchApi, SerpApi, Bing, Jina, Exa, Sougou, Azure AI Search, and Ollama Cloud, injecting results directly into the conversation.
🌐 Web Browsing Capability: Pull websites into chat with the # command followed by a URL, or let the model fetch them on its own when needed.
🎨 Image Generation & Editing: Create and edit images with multiple engines including OpenAI DALL·E, Gemini, ComfyUI (local), and AUTOMATIC1111 (local), supporting both generation and prompt-based editing.
⚙️ Multi-Model Conversations: Engage several models at once, harnessing their individual strengths in parallel for the best possible responses.
📊 Usage Analytics & Model Evaluation: Admin dashboards track message volume, token consumption, and cost across users and models. Evaluate models with a built-in arena, A/B testing, and ELO-based leaderboards.
🗄️ Flexible Database & Storage: Choose SQLite (with optional encryption) or PostgreSQL, and store files locally or on S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage.
🪪 Enterprise Authentication & Provisioning: Full LDAP/Active Directory integration, SSO via trusted headers and OAuth providers, and SCIM 2.0 automated provisioning for identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace.
☁️ Cloud-Native File Integration: Native Google Drive and OneDrive/SharePoint file picking for seamless document import from enterprise cloud storage.
🔭 Production Observability: Built-in OpenTelemetry support for traces, metrics, and logs, plugging into your existing monitoring stack.
⚖️ Horizontal Scalability: Redis-backed session management and WebSocket support for multi-worker, multi-node deployments behind load balancers.
🌐🌍 Multilingual Support: Use Open WebUI in your preferred language with i18n support. We're actively seeking contributors to expand language coverage!
🌟 Continuous Updates: We're committed to improving Open WebUI with regular updates, fixes, and new features.
🛡️ Transparent Security Process: Security reports are triaged, fixed, and published as open advisories through a documented responsible-disclosure process. See our Security Policy.
Want to learn more about Open WebUI's features? Check out our Open WebUI documentation for a comprehensive overview!
The Open WebUI Ecosystem 🌐
Open WebUI is the core, surrounded by companion apps and infrastructure that extend what your AI can do, where it can reach, and how you run it:
💻 Open WebUI Computer (open-webui/computer): A standalone, mobile-first computer and coding agent that runs on the machine you own. Files, terminal, and git in a browser tab, reachable from your phone. Connect it into Open WebUI as a model, or reach it from Telegram, WhatsApp, and more.
⚡ Open Terminal and Terminals (Enterprise) (open-webui/open-terminal & open-webui/terminals): A self-hosted computing environment that plugs into Open WebUI, giving the AI a place to write code, run it, read output, fix errors, and iterate inside the chat. Terminals gives you per-user isolated containers with separate credentials, resource limits, and network rules. Automatic lifecycle management on Docker or Kubernetes.
🔄 oikb (open-webui/oikb): Feed your Knowledge Bases from 45+ sources (GitHub, Confluence, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SharePoint, Notion, and more), keeping the tools your team already uses continuously in sync.
🖥️ Native Desktop App (open-webui/desktop): Run Open WebUI as a native app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. System-wide Spotlight chat bar with screenshot capture, push-to-talk voice, and optional fully-local inference via a built-in llama.cpp engine.
We are incredibly grateful for the generous support of our sponsors. Their contributions help us to maintain and improve our project, ensuring we can continue to deliver quality work to our community. Thank you!
How to Install 🚀
Installation via Python pip 🐍
Open WebUI can be installed using pip, the Python package installer. Before proceeding, ensure you're using Python 3.11 to avoid compatibility issues.
Install Open WebUI:
Open your terminal and run the following command to install Open WebUI:
pip install open-webui
Running Open WebUI:
After installation, you can start Open WebUI by executing:
open-webui serve
This will start the Open WebUI server, which you can access at http://localhost:8080
Quick Start with Docker 🐳
[!NOTE]
Please note that for certain Docker environments, additional configurations might be needed. If you encounter any connection issues, our detailed guide on Open WebUI Documentation is ready to assist you.
[!WARNING]
When using Docker to install Open WebUI, make sure to include the -v open-webui:/app/backend/data in your Docker command. This step is crucial as it ensures your database is properly mounted and prevents any loss of data.
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If you wish to utilize Open WebUI with Ollama included or CUDA acceleration, we recommend utilizing our official images tagged with either :cuda or :ollama. To enable CUDA, you must install the Nvidia CUDA container toolkit on your Linux/WSL system.
This installation method uses a single container image that bundles Open WebUI with Ollama, allowing for a streamlined setup via a single command. Choose the appropriate command based on your hardware setup:
With GPU Support:
Utilize GPU resources by running the following command:
Both commands facilitate a built-in, hassle-free installation of both Open WebUI and Ollama, ensuring that you can get everything up and running swiftly.
We offer various installation alternatives, including non-Docker native installation methods, Docker Compose, Kustomize, and Helm. Visit our Open WebUI Documentation or join our Discord community for comprehensive guidance.
Troubleshooting
Encountering connection issues? Our Open WebUI Documentation has got you covered. For further assistance and to join our vibrant community, visit the Open WebUI Discord.
Open WebUI: Server Connection Error
If you're experiencing connection issues, it’s often due to the WebUI docker container not being able to reach the Ollama server at 127.0.0.1:11434 (host.docker.internal:11434) inside the container . Use the --network=host flag in your docker command to resolve this. Note that the port changes from 3000 to 8080, resulting in the link: http://localhost:8080.
If you are running Open WebUI in an offline environment, you can set the HF_HUB_OFFLINE environment variable to 1 to prevent attempts to download models from the internet.
This project contains code under multiple licenses. The current codebase includes components licensed under the Open WebUI License with an additional requirement to preserve the "Open WebUI" branding, as well as prior contributions under their respective original licenses. For a detailed record of license changes and the applicable terms for each section of the code, please refer to LICENSE_HISTORY. For complete and updated licensing details, please see the LICENSE and LICENSE_HISTORY files.
Support 💬
If you have any questions, suggestions, or need assistance, please open an issue or join our
Open WebUI Discord community to connect with us! 🤝
Security 🛡️
If you believe you've found a security vulnerability, or something that shouldn't be disclosed publicly, please reach out confidentially through our responsible disclosure program on GitHub. We accept reports only through GitHub, not through any other platform. Thank you for helping us keep Open WebUI secure!
Star History
Created by Timothy Jaeryang Baek - Let's make Open WebUI even more amazing together! 💪
