--- title: "open-webui" type: "tool" slug: "open-webui-open-webui" canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/open-webui-open-webui" github_url: "https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui" homepage_url: "https://openwebui.com" stars: 144575 forks: 20900 primary_language: "Python" license: "Other" categories: ["llm-frameworks", "inference-serving"] tags: ["llm-webui", "llm-ui", "llm", "ai", "rag", "openapi", "mcp", "ollama"] updated_at: "2026-07-07T18:56:55.615084+00:00" --- # open-webui > User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) Open WebUI is an extensible and feature-rich self-hosted AI platform that supports various LLM runners like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. It includes a built-in inference engine for RAG operations. ## Facts - Repository: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui - Homepage: https://openwebui.com - Stars: 144,575 · Forks: 20,900 · Open issues: 338 · Watchers: 635 - Primary language: Python - License: Other - Last pushed: 2026-07-02T17:38:23+00:00 ## Categories - [LLM Frameworks](/categories/llm-frameworks.md) - [Inference & Serving](/categories/inference-serving.md) ## Tags llm-webui, llm-ui, llm, ai, rag, openapi, mcp, ollama ## Related tools - [ollama](/tools/ollama-ollama.md) - Get up and running with Kimi-K2.6, GLM-5.1, MiniMax, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models. 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(★ 86,150) - [vllm](/tools/vllm-project-vllm.md) - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs (★ 85,612) ## README (excerpt) ```text # Open WebUI 👋 **Open WebUI is an [extensible](https://docs.openwebui.com/features/extensibility/plugin), 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**. Passionate about open-source AI? [Join our team →](https://careers.openwebui.com/) > [!TIP] > **Looking for an [Enterprise Plan](https://docs.openwebui.com/enterprise)?** – **[Speak with Our Sales Team Today!](https://docs.openwebui.com/enterprise)** > > Get **enhanced capabilities**, including **custom theming and branding**, **Service Level Agreement (SLA) support**, **Long-Term Support (LTS) versions**, and **more!** For more information, be sure to check out our [Open WebUI Documentation](https://docs.openwebui.com/). ## Key Features of Open WebUI ⭐ - 🚀 **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](https://openwebui.com/). - 📝 **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 b ``` --- **Machine-readable endpoints** - JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/open-webui-open-webui`](/api/graphcanon/tools/open-webui-open-webui) - LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt) - Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) _GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_