open-webuiopen-webui
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
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open-webui (Python) — User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
You already run Ollama locally and want a real interface your family or team can use without touching a terminal.
AI & ML · Self-Hosted
A ChatGPT-shaped web interface you run yourself, pointed at Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. It is the piece that makes local models usable by people who are not you: multi-user accounts, chat history, RAG over uploaded documents, model switching. Docker up and it looks like a product rather than a terminal. The honest tradeoff is that it has grown enormous. What started as a thin Ollama front-end now carries pipelines, tools and a permissions system, and upgrades occasionally break custom setups. Licence is BSD-3 with a branding clause, not plain open source, which matters if you plan to resell it.
You already run Ollama locally and want a real interface your family or team can use without touching a terminal.
You only ever chat from the CLI, or you want to white-label and resell it — the branding clause blocks that.
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