Open WebUI

Open WebUI is **a home for AI**, a self-hosted AI platform that's **extensible**, **feature-rich**, user-friendly, and built to run **entirely offline**. With support for **Ollama** and **OpenAI-compatible APIs**, it gives you a powerful, provider-agnostic interface for both local and cloud-based models.
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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.
- ⚡ **Agentic Execution with Open Terminal**: Give your agents a terminal and filesystem to carry out multi-step tasks. Let them analyze data, run scripts, fix errors, and produce files directly in chat. Scale to teams with **Terminals (Enterprise)** for per-user isolated environments, resource limits, and automatic lifecycle management.
- 📝 **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.