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Open WebUI

Self-hosted ChatGPT-style workspace for your team that can run fully offline.

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Solid optionStrong self-hosted team chat, but it needs someone to run a server.

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Price

Open source · Free (self-hosted)

Nonprofit offer

None found

Available in

🌍Anywhere

Suits

Small · Medium · Large

Great for

Nonprofits with an IT person or provider who want one private AI workspace for all staff
Organisations that must keep AI data on their own servers
Whole team can share one private assistant
Admin control over roles and models
Can run fully offline

Watch out for

Organisations with no IT support
Anyone wanting a hosted service they do not have to maintain
Needs technical set-up and ongoing maintenance
Licence includes a branding requirement
You carry the security responsibility

Problems it solves

“We can't put client data into ChatGPT but want AI for the whole team”“Can we host our own private ChatGPT”“We need staff AI on our own server with user accounts”“I want a private AI workspace my IT provider can set up”“How do we give staff AI without paying per user”

About Open WebUI+

Open WebUI is open-source software you host yourself to give your whole team a ChatGPT-style chat window, with user accounts, roles and document search. It connects to local models via Ollama or to cloud models. Because you run it on your own server, you decide where data lives. It needs technical setup, so it suits organisations with IT support or a managed IT provider.

Pricing: Free to self-host. The licence includes a requirement to keep Open WebUI branding on recent versions. An enterprise plan exists with its own terms; prices were not confirmed. You pay for the server or computer it runs on.

Key features+

Team accounts with roles and groupsWorks with Ollama and OpenAI-compatible servicesChat with documents (retrieval)Can run entirely offlineInstalls with Docker or Python

Works with (2)+

OllamaOpenAI-compatible APIs

AI features+

A workspace for AI models: it provides the interface, you choose the model.

Data & privacy+

Open WebUI emphasises offline operation and local data storage on the server you run it on. Privacy therefore depends on how you host and secure it, and on whether you connect it to cloud model providers. Enterprise features can connect to Google Drive and OneDrive. Backups, patching and access control are your responsibility.

How sure are we?+

Partly confirmed on the vendor's pages; some details from reputable secondary sources. Prices and nonprofit programs change often, so check with Open WebUI before you commit. Rankings on Nonprofit Tools are never for sale.

Sources · last checked 2026-10-02