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Open-WebUI

User-friendly AI Interface, supports Ollama, OpenAI API.

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Still maintained? Yes: 2,164 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.12.5 (Oct 2026).

Also an alternative to ChatGPT.

Docker #3 of 14 in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

At a glance

Open-WebUI quick facts

Health score
100/100 GOOD
Stars
157,226
Last commit
today (Oct 2026)
Latest release
v0.12.5, Oct 2026
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
View open-webui/open-webui on GitHub ↗ Website ↗

Top alternatives to Open-WebUI

Full rankings: ChatGPT alternatives

In its own words

The project's README opens: "Open WebUI is a home for AI, a self-hosted AI platform that's extensible, feature-rich, user-friendly, and built to run entirely offline. With support for Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, it gives you a powerful, provider-agnostic interface for both local and cloud-based models."

Why it ranks here

Health score explained

Open-WebUI scores 100/100, #3 of 14 in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI): 2,164 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.12.5, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 157,226 stars add 20.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). It scores full marks on every term.

Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.

  • Commit activity 35.0 / 35

    2164 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)

  • Release recency 25.0 / 25

    v0.12.5 released yesterday

  • Stars 20.0 / 20

    157k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)

  • Not archived 10.0 / 10

    Repository is active

  • Docker support 10.0 / 10

    Docker image or Compose file available

Commit activity

6111 commits over the last 12 months
2164
Last 90 days
6,111
Last 12 months
today
Last push

Ranked #3 of 14 tools in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) by health , between Ollama (#2) and AnythingLLM (#4) .

Details

LicenceBSD-3-Clause
PlatformsDocker, Python
Latest releasev0.12.5 · yesterday
Stars157,226
Open issues144
DockerYes
Repositoryopen-webui/open-webui ↗
Visit website ↗ Source code ↗

Open-WebUI vs its top 5 alternatives

Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Open-WebUI (Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)), scored on the same five terms.

Tool Health Stars Licence Last commit
Ollama 100 185k MIT today
Open-WebUI (this tool) 100 157k BSD-3-Clause today
AnythingLLM 99 68k MIT today
LibreChat 99 46k MIT today
LocalAI 99 50k MIT today
LLMKube 90 248 Apache-2.0 yesterday

Open-WebUI: common questions

What does Open-WebUI replace?

Repoly lists Open-WebUI as an open-source alternative to ChatGPT. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Open-WebUI stands against the others.

Is Open-WebUI still maintained?

Open-WebUI had 2,164 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v0.12.5, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.