Open WebUI

What it does

Open WebUI is a free, self-hosted chat app for AI models that you open in your browser. You connect it to models on your own computer through Ollama, or to cloud models from OpenAI, Anthropic and others with your own key, then chat, ask questions about files, search the web and build custom assistants. The first account is the admin, who can let other people join, so a family or team can share one install. It suits people who want a private ChatGPT-style workspace they control.

One install gives a whole group a ChatGPT-style workspace on hardware you control, and it can run fully offline with local models.

Before you start

• 1A computer with macOS, Windows or Linux.
• 2Docker, or Python 3.11 or 3.12, on macOS, Windows or Linux
• 3Models in Ollama on your computer, or an API key from a provider such as OpenAI
• 4For Docker: a random secret key in place of your-secret-key (the docs show how)
• !License conditions: Free to use, change and share, but in a deployment with more than 50 users in 30 days you must keep the Open WebUI name and logo unless you get written or enterprise permission.
• ✓Free. Nothing to pay.

How to start

1. Install itPaste the install request into an AI agent you already use, or run the official command yourself or follow the official guide.macOS, Windows, Linuxdocker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e WEBUI_SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:mainCopy

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   docker run -d -p 3000:8080 --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -v open-webui:/app/backend/data -e WEBUI_SECRET_KEY=your-secret-key --name open-webui --restart always ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

   This is the official install command, copied from the creator's instructions. Paste it where the instructions say.

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   macOS, Windows, Linuxpip install open-webui open-webui serveCopy

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   pip install open-webui open-webui serve

   This is the official install command, copied from the creator's instructions. Paste it where the instructions say.

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2. Open itFollow the first-run steps in the app.
3. Give it a first taskDescribe what you want in your own words, and check the first result before relying on it.

Steps follow the creator's instructions.