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Open WebUI

Self-hosted web interface for chatting with local and cloud AI models

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In our rankings

Scores on the self-hosted ai chat interfaces criteria

Evaluated Nov 5, 2026
  • Services to run ×3 5

    5/5 means: One container or one package, with storage built in

    The documented Docker install is a single container with one data volume, and a pip package is the alternative.

    3 quotes
  • Model providers ×3 4

    4/5 means: As 3, plus at least two named cloud providers, such as OpenAI and Anthropic

    Ollama, any OpenAI-compatible API, and OpenAI and Anthropic by name; fewer than ten named providers are listed on the pages we captured.

    2 quotes
  • Users and sign-in ×2 5

    5/5 means: As 4, plus user groups and either two-factor sign-in or SCIM provisioning

    Roles and groups, SSO through OIDC or LDAP, SCIM provisioning and two-factor sign-in.

    5 quotes
  • Chat with your documents ×2 5

    5/5 means: As 4, plus a choice of several vector databases and either hybrid search or several document extraction engines

    Built-in knowledge bases with 13 vector database options, hybrid search and 8 document extraction engines.

    4 quotes

Evidence (16 quotes)

  1. 1
    “an extensible, easy-to-use, self-hosted platform built to run entirely offline. Connect local models through Ollama or use OpenAI-compatible APIs for local and cloud models.”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked
  2. 2
    “docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked
  3. 3
    “Standard image with local AI dependencies”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked
  4. 4
    “Requires Python 3.12.”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked
  5. 5
    “Chat with Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or any OpenAI-compatible provider from a single interface.”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  6. 6
    “RBAC Roles, groups, and per-resource permissions”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  7. 7
    “SSO/OIDC/LDAP Federated authentication with any identity provider”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  8. 8
    “SCIM 2.0 Automated user and group provisioning”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  9. 9
    “Two-Factor Sign-In (MFA) Require a code from an authenticator app at every sign-in”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  10. 10
    “13 vector databases ChromaDB and PGVector (officially maintained), plus non-core integrations: Qdrant, Milvus, Elasticsearch, and more”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  11. 11
    “Hybrid search BM25 + vector search with cross-encoder reranking”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  12. 12
    “8 extraction engines Tika, Docling, Azure, Mistral OCR, Datalab Marker, MinerU, PaddleOCR, custom loaders”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  13. 13
    “Upload files, build knowledge bases, and let the AI retrieve exactly the information it needs.”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  14. 14
    “Includes code under the Open WebUI License, which requires preserving the Open WebUI branding”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked
  15. 15
    “Open WebUI is multi-user from day one.”
    docs.openwebui.com/features · checked
  16. 16
    “Lightweight image using external services for embeddings, document extraction, and voice”
    github.com/open-webui/open-webui · checked

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