Open Webui Self Hosted Ai Interface

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name: "Open WebUI Self-Hosted AI Interface for LLMs"
slug: "open-webui-self-hosted-ai-interface"
description: "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 RAG inference, providing a powerful web-based interface for interacting with large language models."
github_stars: 130412
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui"
category: "Developer Tools"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "open-webui/open-webui"
  github_stars: 130412
---

# Open WebUI Self-Hosted AI Interface for LLMs

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 RAG inference, providing a powerful web-based interface for interacting with large language models.

## Installation

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- 🚀 **Effortless Setup**: Install seamlessly using Docker or Kubernetes (kubectl, kustomize or helm) for a hassle-free experience with support for both :ollama and :cuda tagged images.
- 🐍 **Native Python Function Calling Tool**: Enhance your LLMs with built-in code editor support in the tools workspace. Bring Your Own Function (BYOF) by simply adding your pure Python functions, enabling seamless inte...
- ⚖️ **Horizontal Scalability**: Redis-backed session management and WebSocket support for multi-worker and multi-node deployments behind load balancers.

- Source: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/open-webui/open-webui/HEAD/README.md

## Source

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