User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
Open WebUI is a self-hosted web platform that provides a chat interface for running large language models through Ollama, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and backends such as LMStudio, GroqCloud, and Mistral. It connects to Claude and other models via the OpenAI API compatibility layer, making it suitable for teams that want to self-host their AI tooling rather than rely on cloud dashboards. The platform includes a built-in RAG pipeline with support for nine vector databases and content extraction engines including Tika, Docling, and Mistral OCR, plus web search integration across more than 15 providers such as SearXNG, Brave, and Perplexity. Other notable features include a native Python function-calling workspace, image generation via DALL-E, Gemini, ComfyUI, and AUTOMATIC1111, hands-free voice and video calls using local Whisper or cloud Speech-to-Text providers, and granular role-based access control with user groups. Deployable via Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm, it suits developers, researchers, and organizations wanting a self-contained, offline-capable AI interface.
Self-hosted, feature-rich web UI for running local LLMs via Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs.
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claude mcp add open-webui -- python -m open-webui{
"mcpServers": {
"open-webui": {
"command": "python",
"args": ["-m", "open-webui"],
"env": {
"OLLAMA_BASE_URL": "<ollama_base_url>"
}
}
}
}OLLAMA_BASE_URLMCP Servers overview
# Open WebUI 👋        [](https://discord.gg/5rJgQTnV4s) [](https://github.com/sponsors/open-webui)  **Open WebUI is an [extensible](https://docs.openwebui.com/features/extensibility/plugin), 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 inference engine** for RAG, making it a **powerful AI deployment solution**. Passionate about open-source AI? [Join our team →](https://careers.openwebui.com/)  > [!TIP] > **Looking for an [Enterprise Plan](https://docs.openwebui.com/enterprise)?** – **[Speak with Our Sales Team Today!](https://docs.openwebui.com/enterprise)** > > Get **enhanced capabilities**, including **custom theming and branding**, **Service Level Agreement (SLA) support**, **Long-Term Support (LTS) versions**, and **more!** For more information, be sure to check out our [Open WebUI Documentation](https://docs.openwebui.com/). ## 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](https://openwebui.com/). - 📝 **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. - 🔍 **Web Search for RAG**: Search the web through dozens of providers including `SearXNG`, `Google PSE`, `Brave Search`, `Kagi`, `Mojeek`, `Tavily`, `Perplexity`, `Firecrawl`, `serpstack`, `serper`, `Serply`, `DuckDuckGo`, `SearchApi`, `SerpApi`, `Bing`, `Jina`, `Exa`, `Sougou`, `Azure AI Search`, and `Ollama Cloud`, injecting results directly into the conversation. - 🌐 **Web Browsing Capability**: Pull websites into chat with the `#` command followed by a URL, or let the model fetch them on its own when needed. - 🎨 **Image Generation & Editing**: Create and edit images with multiple engines including OpenAI DALL·E, Gemini, ComfyUI (local), and AUTOMATIC1111 (local), supporting both generation and prompt-based editing. - ⚙️ **Multi-Model Conversations**: Engage several models at once, harnessing their individual strengths in parallel for the best possible responses. - 📊 **Usage Analytics & Model Evaluation**: Admin dashboards track message volume, token consumption, and cost across users and models. Evaluate models with a built-in arena, A/B testing, and ELO-based leaderboards. - 🗄️ **Flexible Database & Storage**: Choose SQLite (with optional encryption) or PostgreSQL, and store files locally or on S3, Google Cloud Storage, or Azure Blob Storage. - 🧬 **Advanced Vector Database Support**: Pick from 9 vector databases: ChromaDB, PGVector, Qdrant, Milvus, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, S3Vector, and Oracle 23ai. - 🪪 **Enterprise Authentication & Provisioning**: Full LDAP/Active Directory integration, SSO via trusted headers and OAuth providers, and SCIM 2.0 automated provisioning for identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace. - ☁️ **Cloud-Native File Integration**: Native Google Drive and OneDrive/SharePoint file picking for seamless document import from enterprise cloud storage. - 🔭 **Production Observability**: Built-in OpenTelemetry support for traces, metrics, and logs, plugging into your existing monitoring stack. - ⚖️ **Horizontal Scalability**: Redis-backed session management and WebSocket support for multi-worker, multi-node deployments behind load balancers. - 🌐🌍 **Multilingual Support**: Use Open WebUI in your preferred language with i18n support. We're actively seeking contributors to expand language coverage! - 🌟 **Continuous Updates**: We're committed to improving Open WebUI with regular updates, fixes, and new features. - 🛡️ **Transparent Security Process**: Security reports are triaged, fixed, and published as open advisories through a documented responsible-disclosure process. See our [Security Policy](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/security). Want to learn more about Open WebUI's features? Check out our [Open WebUI documentation](https://docs.openwebui.com/features) for a comprehensive overview! ## The Open WebUI Ecosystem 🌐 Open WebUI is the core, surrounded by companion apps and infrastructure that extend what your AI can do, where it can reach, and how you run it: - 💻 **Open WebUI Computer** ([open-webui/computer](https://github.com/open-webui/computer)): A standalone, mobile-first computer and coding agent that runs on the machine you own. Files, terminal, and git in a browser tab, reachable from your phone. Connect it into Open WebUI as a model, or reach it from Telegram, WhatsApp, and more. - ⚡ **Open Terminal** and **Terminals (Enterprise)** ([open-webui/open-terminal](https://github.com/open-webui/open-terminal) & [open-webui/terminals](https://github.com/open-webui/terminals)): A self-hosted computing environment that plugs into Open WebUI, giving the AI a place to write code, run it, read output, fix errors, and iterate inside the chat. Terminals gives you per-user isolated containers with separate credentials, resource limits, and network rules. Automatic lifecycle management on Docker or Kubernetes. - 🔄 **oikb** ([open-webui/oikb](https://github.com/open-webui/oikb)): Feed your Knowledge Bases from 45+ sources (GitHub, Confluence, ServiceNow, Salesforce, Jira, Slack, SharePoint, Notion, and more), keeping the tools your team already uses continuously in sync. - 🖥️ **Native Desktop App** ([open-webui/desktop](https://github.com/open-webui/desktop)): Run Open WebUI as a native app on macOS, Windows, and Linux. System-wide Spotlight chat bar with screenshot capture, push-to-talk voice, and optional fully-local inference via a built-in llama.cpp engine. Want to learn more? Check out our [Open WebUI documentation](https://docs.openwebui.com) for more details! --- We are incredibly grateful for the generous support of our sponsors. Their contributions help us to maintain and improve our project, ensuring we can continue to deliver quality work to our co
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open-webui/open-webui is mcp servers for the Claude AI ecosystem. User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...) It has 147k GitHub stars and was last updated today.
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open-webui/open-webui is maintained by open-webui. The last recorded GitHub activity is from today, with 294 open issues.
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