Self-hosted AI interface for connecting models and knowledge bases
Overview
- Purpose
- Self-hosted AI interface for connecting models and knowledge bases
- Category
- AI Agents
- Official site
- https://openwebui.com/ (opens in a new tab)
Main features
- Chat with models through a self-hosted web interface
- Connect local model services such as Ollama or online models
- Ask questions using documents and knowledge bases
- Extensible workspaces and administration
Best for
Suited to users with deployment experience who want an AI workspace for managing models and material for themselves or a team.
Things to know
- Deployment requires a runtime and a model service
- For offline document processing, check that embeddings and document extraction also use local settings
FAQ
- How does it relate to Ollama?
- Ollama manages and serves models; Open WebUI adds a web interface and knowledge-base features.
- Can it run fully offline?
- The official documentation provides offline setup guidance; models and document-processing components must all use local services.