AI assistant
Open WebUI
ChatGPT-like interface for your own models.
proprietary self-hostable Open WebUI Inc. · USChats, documents and tools in a self-hosted web app that talks to local or remote models.
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How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Open WebUI Inc. (US) |
|---|---|
| Licence | proprietary |
| Self-hosting footprint | 1024 MB RAM · 1 vCPU · 5 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | ChatGPT |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 150,844 stars · updated 2026-08-31 · Docker, Python |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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