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⭐ Features

Key Features of Open WebUI ⭐​

  • 🚀 Effortless Setup: Install seamlessly using Docker, Kubernetes, Podman, Helm Charts (kubectl, kustomize, podman, or helm) for a hassle-free experience with support for both :ollama image with bundled Ollama and :cuda with CUDA support. Learn more in our Quick Start Guide.

  • 🛠️ Guided Initial Setup: Complete the setup process with clarity, including an explicit indication of creating an admin account during the first-time setup.

  • 🤝 Universal API Compatibility: Effortlessly integrate with any backend that follows the OpenAI Chat Completions protocol. This includes official OpenAI endpoints alongside dozens of third-party and local providers. The API URL can be customized to integrate Open WebUI seamlessly into your existing infrastructure. See Setup Guide.

  • 🛡️ Granular Permissions and User Groups: By allowing administrators to create detailed user roles, user groups, and permissions across the workspace, we ensure a secure user environment for all users involved. This granularity not only enhances security, but also allows for customized user experiences, fostering a sense of ownership and responsibility amongst users. Learn more about RBAC.

  • 🔐 SCIM 2.0 Provisioning: Enterprise-grade user and group provisioning through SCIM 2.0 protocol, enabling seamless integration with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace for automated user lifecycle management. Read the SCIM Guide.

  • 📂 Centralized File Management: A unified dashboard to search, view, and manage all your uploaded documents in one place. Includes automated cleanup of Knowledge Base associations and vector embeddings when deleting files. Learn about File Management.

  • 💬 Shared Chat Management: A centralized interface to audit every conversation you've ever shared. Easily search through your shared history, re-copy links, or revoke (unshare) access instantly from a single location. Learn about Shared Chats.

  • 📱 Responsive Design: Enjoy a seamless experience across desktop PCs, laptops, and mobile devices.

  • 📱 Progressive Web App for Mobile: Enjoy a native progressive web application experience on your mobile device with offline access on localhost or a personal domain, and a smooth user interface. In order for our PWA to be installable on your device, it must be delivered in a secure context. This usually means that it must be served over HTTPS.

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    • To set up a PWA, you'll need some understanding of technologies like Linux, Docker, and reverse proxies such as Nginx, Caddy, or Traefik. Using these tools can help streamline the process of building and deploying a PWA tailored to your needs. While there's no "one-click install" option available, and your available option to securely deploy your Open WebUI instance over HTTPS requires user experience, using these resources can make it easier to create and deploy a PWA tailored to your needs.

  • ✒️🔢 Full Markdown and LaTeX Support: Elevate your LLM experience with comprehensive Markdown, LaTex, and Rich Text capabilities for enriched interaction. Explore Interface Features.

  • 🧩 Model Builder: Easily create custom models from base Ollama models directly from Open WebUI. Create and add custom characters and agents, customize model elements, and import models effortlessly through Open WebUI Community integration. Learn more about Models.

  • 📚 Advanced RAG Integration with Multiple Vector Databases: Dive into the future of chat interactions with cutting-edge Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technology. Choose from 9 vector database options: ChromaDB (default), PostgreSQL with PGVector, Qdrant, Milvus, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, S3Vector, and Oracle 23ai. Documents can be loaded into the Documents tab of the Workspace and accessed using the pound key [#] before a query, or by starting the prompt with [#] followed by a URL for webpage content integration. Learn more about RAG.

  • 📄 Advanced Document Extraction with Multiple Engines: Extract text and data from various document formats including PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and more using your choice of extraction engines: Apache Tika, Docling, Azure Document Intelligence, Mistral OCR, or external custom (self-built) content extraction engines/document loaders. Advanced document processing capabilities enable seamless integration with your knowledge base, preserving structure and formatting while supporting OCR for scanned documents and images. Read about Document Extraction.

  • 🔍 Web Search for RAG & Agentic Research: Perform web searches using 15+ providers including SearXNG, Google PSE, Brave Search, Kagi, Mojeek, Bocha, Tavily, Perplexity, and more. When using Native Function Calling, models can perform multiple searches sequentially and use the fetch_url tool to read full page content for deep research. Learn about Agentic Search.

  • 🌐 Web Browsing & URL Fetching: Integrate websites by using the # command or allow the model to independently visit links using the fetch_url tool in Native Mode, extracting full text content for precise analysis.

  • 🎨 Image Generation & Editing Integration: Seamlessly create and edit images using engines like DALL-E, Gemini, ComfyUI, and AUTOMATIC1111. Supports Native Tool Calling, allowing models to independently generate and refine images during a conversation. Learn more about Image Gen.

  • ⚙️ Concurrent Model Utilization: Effortlessly engage with multiple models simultaneously, harnessing their unique strengths for optimal responses. Leverage a diverse set of model modalities in parallel to enhance your experience.

  • 🔐 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Ensure secure access with restricted permissions. Only authorized individuals can access your Ollama, while model creation and pulling rights are exclusively reserved for administrators. Learn more about RBAC.

  • 🌐🌍 Multilingual Support: Experience Open WebUI in your preferred language with our internationalization (i18n) support. We invite you to join us in expanding our supported languages! We're actively seeking contributors!

  • 💾 Persistent Artifact Storage: Built-in key-value storage API for artifacts, enabling features like journals, trackers, leaderboards, and collaborative tools with both personal and shared data scopes that persist across sessions. Explore Chat Features.

  • ☁️ Cloud Storage Integration: Native support for cloud storage backends including Amazon S3 (with S3-compatible providers), Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for scalable file storage and data management. See Storage Config.

  • ☁️ Enterprise Cloud Integration: Seamlessly import documents from Google Drive and OneDrive/SharePoint directly through the file picker interface, enabling smooth workflows with enterprise cloud storage solutions. Learn more in Environment Config and check out the SharePoint Guide.

  • 📊 Production Observability with OpenTelemetry: Built-in OpenTelemetry support for comprehensive monitoring with traces, metrics, and logs export to your existing observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, etc.), enabling production-grade monitoring and debugging. See Observability Config.

  • 🔒 Encrypted Database Support: Optional at-rest encryption for SQLite databases using SQLCipher, providing enhanced security for sensitive data in smaller deployments without requiring PostgreSQL infrastructure. See Database Encryption.

  • ⚖️ Horizontal Scalability for Production: Redis-backed session management and WebSocket support enabling multi-worker and multi-node deployments behind load balancers for high-availability production environments. See Advanced Topics and our Multi-Replica Guide.

  • 🌟 Continuous Updates: We are committed to improving Open WebUI with regular updates, fixes, and new features.

And many more remarkable features including... ⚡️​

🔧 Pipelines Support​

  • 🔧 Pipelines Framework: Seamlessly integrate and customize your Open WebUI experience with our modular plugin framework for enhanced customization and functionality (https://github.com/open-webui/pipelines). Our framework allows for the easy addition of custom logic and integration of Python libraries, from AI agents to home automation APIs. Perfect for plugin and tool development, as well as creating custom functions and filters. Learn more about Pipelines.

  • �️ Native Python Function Calling: Access the power of Python directly within Open WebUI with native function calling. Easily integrate custom code to build unique features like custom RAG pipelines, web search tools, and even agent-like actions via a built-in code editor to seamlessly develop and integrate function code within the Tools and Functions workspace. Learn more about Tools.

  • �📥 Upload Pipeline: Pipelines can be uploaded directly from the Admin Panel > Settings > Pipelines menu, streamlining the pipeline management process.

The possibilities with our Pipelines framework knows no bounds and are practically limitless. Start with a few pre-built pipelines to help you get started!​

  • 🔗 Function Calling: Integrate Function Calling seamlessly through Pipelines to enhance your LLM interactions with advanced function calling capabilities.

  • 📚 Custom RAG: Integrate a custom Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline seamlessly to enhance your LLM interactions with custom RAG logic.

  • 📊 Message Monitoring with Langfuse: Monitor and analyze message interactions in real-time usage statistics via Langfuse pipeline.

  • ⚖️ User Rate Limiting: Manage API usage efficiently by controlling the flow of requests sent to LLMs to prevent exceeding rate limits with Rate Limit pipeline.

  • 🌍 Real-Time LibreTranslate Translation: Integrate real-time translations into your LLM interactions using LibreTranslate pipeline, enabling cross-lingual communication.

    • Please note that this pipeline requires further setup with LibreTranslate in a Docker container to work.

  • 🛡️ Toxic Message Filtering: Our Detoxify pipeline automatically filters out toxic messages to maintain a clean and safe chat environment.

  • 🔒 LLM-Guard: Ensure secure LLM interactions with LLM-Guard pipeline, featuring a Prompt Injection Scanner that detects and mitigates crafty input manipulations targeting large language models. This protects your LLMs from data leakage and adds a layer of resistance against prompt injection attacks.

  • 🕒 Conversation Turn Limits: Improve interaction management by setting limits on conversation turns with Conversation Turn Limit pipeline.

  • 📈 OpenAI Generation Stats: Our OpenAI pipeline provides detailed generation statistics for OpenAI models.

  • 🚀 Multi-Model Support: Our seamless integration with various AI models from various providers expands your possibilities with a wide range of language models to select from and interact with.

In addition to the extensive features and customization options, we also provide a library of example pipelines ready to use along with a practical example scaffold pipeline to help you get started. These resources will streamline your development process and enable you to quickly create powerful LLM interactions using Pipelines and Python. Happy coding! 💡​

🖥️ User Experience​

  • 🖥️ Intuitive Interface: The chat interface has been designed with the user in mind, drawing inspiration from the user interface of ChatGPT.

  • ⚡ Swift Responsiveness: Enjoy reliably fast and responsive performance.

  • 🎨 Splash Screen: A simple loading splash screen for a smoother user experience.

  • 🌐 Personalized Interface: Choose between a freshly designed search landing page and the classic chat UI from Settings > Interface, allowing for a tailored experience. Explore Interface Options.

  • 📦 Pip Install Method: Installation of Open WebUI can be accomplished via the command pip install open-webui, which streamlines the process and makes it more accessible to new users. For further information, please visit: https://pypi.org/project/open-webui/.

  • 🌈 Theme Customization: Personalize your Open WebUI experience with a range of options, including a variety of solid, yet sleek themes, customizable chat background images, and three mode options: Light, Dark, or OLED Dark mode - or let Her choose for you! ;)

  • 🖼️ Custom Background Support: Set a custom background from Settings > Interface to personalize your experience.

  • 📝 Rich Banners with Markdown: Create visually engaging announcements with markdown support in banners, enabling richer and more dynamic content. See Banners Documentation.

  • 💻 Code Syntax Highlighting: Our syntax highlighting feature enhances code readability, providing a clear and concise view of your code.

  • 🗨️ Markdown Rendering in User Messages: User messages are now rendered in Markdown, enhancing readability and interaction.

  • 🎨 Flexible Text Input Options: Switch between rich text input and legacy text area input for chat, catering to user preferences and providing a choice between advanced formatting and simpler text input.

  • 👆 Effortless Code Sharing : Streamline the sharing and collaboration process with convenient code copying options, including a floating copy button in code blocks and click-to-copy functionality from code spans, saving time and reducing frustration.

  • 🎨 Interactive Artifacts: Render web content and SVGs directly in the interface, supporting quick iterations and live changes for enhanced creativity and productivity.

  • 🖊️ Live Code Editing: Supercharged code blocks allow live editing directly in the LLM response, with live reloads supported by artifacts, streamlining coding and testing.

  • 🔍 Enhanced SVG Interaction: Pan and zoom capabilities for SVG images, including Mermaid diagrams, enable deeper exploration and understanding of complex concepts.

  • 🔍 Text Select Quick Actions: Floating buttons appear when text is highlighted in LLM responses, offering deeper interactions like "Ask a Question" or "Explain", and enhancing overall user experience.

  • ↕️ Bi-Directional Chat Support: You can easily switch between left-to-right and right-to-left chat directions to accommodate various language preferences.

  • 📱 Mobile Accessibility: The sidebar can be opened and closed on mobile devices with a simple swipe gesture.

  • 🤳 Haptic Feedback on Supported Devices: Android devices support haptic feedback for an immersive tactile experience during certain interactions.

  • 🔍 User Settings Search: Quickly search for settings fields, improving ease of use and navigation.

  • 📜 Offline Swagger Documentation: Access developer-friendly Swagger API documentation offline, ensuring full accessibility wherever you are.

  • 💾 Performance Optimizations: Lazy loading of large dependencies minimizes initial memory usage, boosting performance and reducing loading times.

  • 🚀 Persistent and Scalable Configuration: Open WebUI configurations are stored in a database (webui.db), allowing for seamless load balancing, high-availability setups, and persistent settings across multiple instances, making it easy to access and reuse your configurations.

  • 🔄 Portable Import/Export: Easily import and export Open WebUI configurations, simplifying the process of replicating settings across multiple systems.

  • ❓ Quick Access to Documentation & Shortcuts: The question mark button located at the bottom right-hand corner of the main UI screen (available on larger screens like desktop PCs and laptops) provides users with easy access to the Open WebUI documentation page and available keyboard shortcuts.

  • 📜 Changelog & Check for Updates: Users can access a comprehensive changelog and check for updates in the Settings > About > See What's New menu, which provides a quick overview of the latest features, improvements, and bug fixes, as well as the ability to check for updates.

💬 Conversations​

  • 💬 True Asynchronous Chat: Enjoy uninterrupted multitasking with true asynchronous chat support, allowing you to create chats, navigate away, and return anytime with responses ready.

  • 🔔 Chat Completion Notifications: Stay updated with instant in-UI notifications when a chat finishes in a non-active tab, ensuring you never miss a completed response.

  • 📝 Message Queue: Continue composing messages while the AI is generating a response. Your messages are queued and automatically sent together when the current response completes. Edit, delete, or send queued messages immediately. Learn about Message Queue.

  • 🌐 Notification Webhook Integration: Receive timely updates for long-running chats or external integration needs with configurable webhook notifications, even when your tab is closed. Learn more about Webhooks.

  • 📚 Channels (Beta): Explore real-time collaboration between users and AIs with Discord/Slack-style chat rooms, build bots for channels, and unlock asynchronous communication for proactive multi-agent workflows. See Channels.

  • 🖊️ Typing Indicators in Channels: Enhance collaboration with real-time typing indicators in channels, keeping everyone engaged and informed.

  • 👤 User Status Indicators: Quickly view a user's status by clicking their profile image in channels, providing better coordination and availability insights. This feature can be globally disabled by an administrator (Admin > Settings > General).

  • 💬 Chat Controls: Easily adjust parameters for each chat session, offering more precise control over your interactions.

  • 💖 Favorite Response Management: Easily mark and organize favorite responses directly from the chat overview, enhancing ease of retrieval and access to preferred responses.

  • 📌 Pinned Chats: Support for pinned chats, allowing you to keep important conversations easily accessible.

  • 🔍 RAG Embedding Support: Change the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) embedding model directly in the Admin Panel > Settings > Documents menu, enhancing document processing. This feature supports Ollama and OpenAI models.

  • 📜 Citations in RAG Feature: The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) feature allows users to easily track the context of documents fed to LLMs with added citations for reference points.

  • 🌟 Enhanced RAG Pipeline: A togglable hybrid search sub-feature for our RAG embedding feature that enhances the RAG functionality via BM25, with re-ranking powered by CrossEncoder, and configurable relevance score thresholds.

  • 📹 YouTube RAG Pipeline: The dedicated Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for summarizing YouTube videos via video URLs enables smooth interaction with video transcriptions directly.

  • 📁 Comprehensive Document Retrieval: Toggle between full document retrieval and traditional snippets, enabling comprehensive tasks like summarization and supporting enhanced document capabilities.

  • 🌟 RAG Citation Relevance: Easily assess citation accuracy with the addition of relevance percentages in RAG results.

  • 🗂️ Advanced RAG: Improve RAG accuracy with smart pre-processing of chat history to determine the best queries before retrieval.

  • 📚 Inline Citations for RAG: Benefit from seamless inline citations for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) responses, improving traceability and providing source clarity for newly uploaded files.

  • 📁 Large Text Handling: Optionally convert large pasted text into a file upload to be used directly with RAG, keeping the chat interface cleaner.

  • 🔄 Multi-Modal Support: Effortlessly engage with models that support multi-modal interactions, including images (e.g., LLaVA).

  • 🤖 Multiple Model Support: Quickly switch between different models for diverse chat interactions.

  • 🔀 Merge Responses in Many Model Chat: Enhances the dialogue by merging responses from multiple models into a single, coherent reply.

  • ✅ Multiple Instances of Same Model in Chats: Enhanced many model chat to support adding multiple instances of the same model.

  • 💬 Temporary Chat Feature: Introduced a temporary chat feature, deprecating the old chat history setting to enhance user interaction flexibility. Please note that document processing in temporary chats is performed entirely in the browser to ensure privacy and data minimization. This means specific file types requiring backend processing (like complex DOCX parsing) may have limited functionality in temporary mode.

  • 🖋️ User Message Editing: Enhanced the user chat editing feature to allow saving changes without sending.

  • 💬 Efficient Conversation Editing: Create new message pairs quickly and intuitively using the Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+Enter shortcut, streamlining conversation length tests.

  • 🖼️ Client-Side Image Compression: Save bandwidth and improve performance with client-side image compression, allowing you to compress images before upload from Settings > Interface.

  • 👥 '@' Model Integration: By seamlessly switching to any accessible local or external model during conversations, users can harness the collective intelligence of multiple models in a single chat. This can done by using the @ command to specify the model by name within a chat.

  • 🏷️ Conversation Tagging : Effortlessly categorize and locate tagged chats for quick reference and streamlined data collection using our efficient 'tag:' query system, allowing you to manage, search, and organize your conversations without cluttering the interface.

  • 🧠 Auto-Tagging: Conversations can optionally be automatically tagged for improved organization, mirroring the efficiency of auto-generated titles.

  • 👶 Chat Cloning: Easily clone and save a snapshot of any chat for future reference or continuation. This feature makes it easy to pick up where you left off or share your session with others. To create a copy of your chat, simply click on the Clone button in the chat's dropdown options. Can you keep up with your clones?

  • ⭐ Visualized Conversation Flows: Interactive messages diagram for improved visualization of conversation flows, enhancing understanding and navigation of complex discussions.

  • 📁 Chat Folders: Organize your chats into folders, drag and drop them for easy management, and export them seamlessly for sharing or analysis.

  • 📤 Easy Chat Import: Import chats into your workspace by simply dragging and dropping chat exports (JSON) onto the sidebar.

  • 📜 Prompt Preset Support: Instantly access custom preset prompts using the / command in the chat input. Load predefined conversation starters effortlessly and expedite your interactions. Import prompts with ease through Open WebUI Community integration or create your own!

  • 📅 Prompt Variables Support: Prompt variables such as {{CLIPBOARD}}, {{CURRENT_DATE}}, {{CURRENT_DATETIME}}, {{CURRENT_TIME}}, {{CURRENT_TIMEZONE}}, {{CURRENT_WEEKDAY}}, {{USER_NAME}}, {{USER_LANGUAGE}}, and {{USER_LOCATION}} can be utilized in the system prompt or by using a slash command to select a prompt directly within a chat.

    • Please note that the {{USER_LOCATION}} prompt variable requires a secure connection over HTTPS. To utilize this particular prompt variable, please ensure that {{USER_LOCATION}} is toggled on from the Settings > Interface menu.
    • Please note that the {{CLIPBOARD}} prompt variables requires access to your device's clipboard.

  • 🧠 Memory Feature & Tools (Experimental): Manage information you want your LLMs to remember via Settings > Personalization > Memory. Capable models can now use add_memory, search_memories, and replace_memory_content tools to dynamically store, retrieve, and update facts about you during chat sessions. Learn more about Memory.

💻 Model Management​

  • 🛠️ Model Builder: All models can be built and edited with a persistent model builder mode within the models edit page.

  • 📚 Knowledge Support for Models: The ability to attach tools, functions, and knowledge collections directly to models from a model's edit page, enhancing the information available to each model.

  • 🗂️ Model Presets: Create and manage model presets for both the Ollama and OpenAI API.

  • 🏷️ Model Tagging: The models workspace enables users to organize their models using tagging.

  • 📋 Model Selector Dropdown Ordering: Models can be effortlessly organized by dragging and dropping them into desired positions within the model workspace, which will then reflect the changes in the model dropdown menu.

  • 🔍 Model Selector Dropdown: Easily find and select your models with fuzzy search and detailed model information with model tags and model descriptions.

  • ⌨️ Arrow Keys Model Selection: Use arrow keys for quicker model selection, enhancing accessibility.

  • 🔧 Quick Actions in Model Workspace: Enhanced Shift key quick actions for hiding/displaying and deleting models in the model workspace.

  • 😄 Transparent Model Usage: Stay informed about the system's state during queries with knowledge-augmented models, thanks to visible status displays.

  • ⚙️ Fine-Tuned Control with Advanced Parameters: Gain a deeper level of control by adjusting model parameters such as seed, temperature, frequency penalty, context length, seed, and more.

  • 🔄 Seamless Integration: Copy any ollama run {model:tag} CLI command directly from a model's page on Ollama library and paste it into the model dropdown to easily select and pull models.

  • 🗂️ Create Ollama Modelfile: To create a model file for Ollama, navigate to the Admin Panel > Settings > Models > Create a model menu.

  • ⬆️ GGUF File Model Creation: Effortlessly create Ollama models by uploading GGUF files directly from Open WebUI from the Admin Settings > Settings > Model > Experimental menu. The process has been streamlined with the option to upload from your machine or download GGUF files from Hugging Face.

  • ⚙️ Default Model Setting: The default model preference for new chats can be set in the Settings > Interface menu on mobile devices, or can more easily be set in a new chat under the model selector dropdown on desktop PCs and laptops.

  • 💡 LLM Response Insights: Details of every generated response can be viewed, including external model API insights and comprehensive local model info.

  • 🕒 Model Details at a Glance: View critical model details, including model hash and last modified timestamp, directly in the Models workspace for enhanced tracking and management.

  • 📥🗑️ Download/Delete Models: Models can be downloaded or deleted directly from Open WebUI with ease.

  • 🔄 Update All Ollama Models: A convenient button allows users to update all their locally installed models in one operation, streamlining model management.

  • 🍻 TavernAI Character Card Integration: Experience enhanced visual storytelling with TavernAI Character Card Integration in our model builder. Users can seamlessly incorporate TavernAI character card PNGs directly into their model files, creating a more immersive and engaging user experience.

  • 🎲 Model Playground (Beta): Try out models with the model playground area (beta), which enables users to test and explore model capabilities and parameters with ease in a sandbox environment before deployment in a live chat environment. Export your playground conversations in JSON format (compatible with Open WebUI chat import) or as plain text for easy sharing and documentation.

👥 Collaboration​

  • 🗨️ Local Chat Sharing: Generate and share chat links between users in an efficient and seamless manner. Includes a centralized management interface in Settings to view, copy links, or unshare conversations at any time. Learn more about Chat Sharing.

  • 👍👎 RLHF Annotation: Enhance the impact of your messages by rating them with either a thumbs up or thumbs down AMD provide a rating for the response on a scale of 1-10, followed by the option to provide textual feedback, facilitating the creation of datasets for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Utilize your messages to train or fine-tune models, all while ensuring the confidentiality of locally saved data.

  • 🔧 Comprehensive Feedback Export: Export feedback history data to JSON for seamless integration with RLHF processing and further analysis, providing valuable insights for improvement.

  • 🤝 Community Sharing: Share your chat sessions with the Open WebUI Community by clicking the Share to Open WebUI Community button. This feature allows you to engage with other users and collaborate on the platform.

    • To utilize this feature, please sign-in to your Open WebUI Community account. Sharing your chats fosters a vibrant community, encourages knowledge sharing, and facilitates joint problem-solving. Please note that community sharing of chat sessions is an optional feature. Only Admins can toggle this feature on or off in the Admin Settings > Settings > General menu.

  • 🏆 Community Leaderboard: Compete and track your performance in real-time with our leaderboard system, which utilizes the ELO rating system and allows for optional sharing of feedback history.

  • ⚔️ Model Evaluation Arena: Conduct blind A/B testing of models directly from the Admin Settings for a true side-by-side comparison, making it easier to find the best model for your needs.

  • 🎯 Topic-Based Rankings: Discover more accurate rankings with our experimental topic-based re-ranking system, which adjusts leaderboard standings based on tag similarity in feedback. Learn more about Evaluation.

  • 📂 Unified and Collaborative Workspace : Access and manage all your model files, prompts, documents, tools, and functions in one convenient location, while also enabling multiple users to collaborate and contribute to models, knowledge, prompts, or tools, streamlining your workflow and enhancing teamwork.

📚 History & Archive​

  • 📜 Chat History: Access and manage your conversation history with ease via the chat navigation sidebar. Toggle off chat history in the Settings > Chats menu to prevent chat history from being created with new interactions.

  • 🔄 Regeneration History Access: Easily revisit and explore your entire LLM response regeneration history.

  • 📬 Archive Chats: Effortlessly store away completed conversations you've had with models for future reference or interaction, maintaining a tidy and clutter-free chat interface.

  • 🗃️ Archive All Chats: This feature allows you to quickly archive all of your chats at once.

  • 📦 Export All Archived Chats as JSON: This feature enables users to easily export all their archived chats in a single JSON file, which can be used for backup or transfer purposes.

  • 📄 Download Chats as JSON/PDF/TXT: Easily download your chats individually in your preferred format of .json, .pdf, or .txt format.

  • 📤📥 Import/Export Chat History: Seamlessly move your chat data in and out of the platform via Import Chats and Export Chats options.

  • 🗑️ Delete All Chats: This option allows you to permanently delete all of your chats, ensuring a fresh start.

🎙️ Audio, Voice, & Accessibility​

  • 🗣️ Voice Input Support with Multiple Providers: Engage with your model through voice interactions using multiple Speech-to-Text providers: Local Whisper (default, with VAD filtering), OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Deepgram, and Azure Speech Services. Enjoy the convenience of talking to your model directly with automatic voice input after 3 seconds of silence for a streamlined experience. Explore Audio Features.

  • 😊 Emoji Call: Toggle this feature on from the Settings > Interface menu, allowing LLMs to express emotions using emojis during voice calls for a more dynamic interaction.

  • 🎙️ Hands-Free Voice Call Feature: Initiate voice calls without needing to use your hands, making interactions more seamless.

  • 📹 Video Call Feature: Enable video calls with supported vision models like LlaVA and GPT-4o, adding a visual dimension to your communications.

  • 👆 Tap to Interrupt: Stop the AI’s speech during voice conversations with a simple tap on mobile devices, ensuring seamless control over the interaction.

  • 🎙️ Voice Interrupt: Stop the AI’s speech during voice conversations with your voice on mobile devices, ensuring seamless control over the interaction.

  • 🔊 Multiple Text-to-Speech Providers: Customize your Text-to-Speech experience with multiple providers: OpenAI-compatible endpoints, Azure Speech Services, ElevenLabs (with EU residency support), local Transformers models, and browser-based WebAPI for reading aloud LLM responses.

  • 🔗 Direct Call Mode Access: Activate call mode directly from a URL, providing a convenient shortcut for mobile device users.

  • ✨ Customizable Text-to-Speech: Control how message content is segmented for Text-to-Speech (TTS) generation requests, allowing for flexible speech output options.

  • 🔊 Azure Speech Services Integration: Supports Azure Speech services for Text-to-Speech (TTS), providing users with a wider range of speech synthesis options.

  • 🎚️ Customizable Audio Playback: Allows users to adjust audio playback speed to their preferences in Call mode settings, enhancing accessibility and usability.

  • 🎵 Broad Audio Compatibility: Enjoy support for a wide range of audio file format transcriptions with RAG, including 'audio/x-m4a', to broaden compatibility with audio content within the platform.

  • 🎤 Deepgram Speech-to-Text Integration: Leverage Deepgram's advanced speech recognition capabilities for high-accuracy voice transcription, providing an additional STT option beyond local Whisper and OpenAI.

  • 🔊 ElevenLabs Text-to-Speech Integration: Access ElevenLabs' premium voice synthesis with support for EU residency API endpoints, offering high-quality and natural-sounding voice output for enhanced user experiences.

  • 🔊 Audio Compression: Experimental audio compression allows navigating around the 25MB limit for OpenAI's speech-to-text processing, expanding the possibilities for audio-based interactions.

  • 🗣️ Experimental SpeechT5 TTS: Enjoy local SpeechT5 support for improved text-to-speech capabilities.

🐍 Code Execution​

  • 🚀 Versatile, UI-Agnostic, OpenAI-Compatible Plugin Framework: Seamlessly integrate and customize Open WebUI Pipelines for efficient data processing and model training, ensuring ultimate flexibility and scalability.

  • 🐍 Python Code Execution: Execute Python code locally in the browser via Pyodide with a range of libraries supported by Pyodide.

  • 🌊 Mermaid Rendering: Create visually appealing diagrams and flowcharts directly within Open WebUI using the Mermaid Diagramming and charting tool, which supports Mermaid syntax rendering.

  • 🔗 Iframe Support: Enables rendering HTML directly into your chat interface using functions and tools.

🔒 Integration & Security​

  • ✨ Multiple OpenAI-Compatible API Support: Seamlessly integrate and customize various OpenAI-compatible APIs, enhancing the versatility of your chat interactions.

  • 🔑 Simplified API Key Management: Easily generate and manage secret keys to leverage Open WebUI with OpenAI libraries, streamlining integration and development.

  • 🌐 HTTP/S Proxy Support: Configure network settings easily using the http_proxy or https_proxy environment variable. These variables, if set, should contain the URLs for HTTP and HTTPS proxies, respectively. For web search content fetching behind a proxy, enable Trust Proxy Environment in Admin Panel > Settings > Web Search (or set WEB_SEARCH_TRUST_ENV=True).

  • 🌐🔗 External Ollama Server Connectivity: Seamlessly link to an external Ollama server hosted on a different address by configuring the environment variable.

  • 🛢️ Flexible Database Integration: Seamlessly connect to custom databases, including SQLite, Postgres, and multiple vector databases like Milvus, using environment variables for flexible and scalable data management.

  • 🗄️ Multiple Vector Database Support: Choose from 9 vector database options for optimal RAG performance: ChromaDB (default), PostgreSQL with PGVector, Qdrant, Milvus, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Pinecone, S3Vector, and Oracle 23ai. Each option provides different scaling characteristics and performance profiles to match your deployment needs.

  • ☁️ Enterprise Cloud Storage Backends: Configure cloud storage backends including Amazon S3 (with S3-compatible providers like MinIO), Google Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for scalable file storage, enabling stateless instances and distributed deployments.

  • 📂 Cloud File Picker Integration: Import documents directly from Google Drive and OneDrive/SharePoint through native file picker interfaces, streamlining workflows for users working with enterprise cloud storage solutions.

  • 🌐🗣️ External Speech-to-Text Support: The addition of external speech-to-text (STT) services provides enhanced flexibility, allowing users to choose their preferred provider for seamless interaction.

  • 🌐 Remote ChromaDB Support: Extend the capabilities of your database by connecting to remote ChromaDB servers.

  • 🔀 Multiple Ollama Instance Load Balancing: Effortlessly distribute chat requests across multiple Ollama instances for enhanced performance and reliability.

  • 🚀 Advanced Load Balancing and Reliability: Utilize enhanced load balancing capabilities, stateless instances with full Redis support, and automatic web socket re-connection to promote better performance, reliability, and scalability in WebUI, ensuring seamless and uninterrupted interactions across multiple instances.

  • ☁️ Cloud Storage Backend Support: Enable stateless Open WebUI instances with cloud storage backends (Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage) for enhanced scalability, high availability, and balancing heavy workloads across multiple instances.

  • 🛠️ OAuth Management for User Groups: Enhance control and scalability in collaborative environments with group-level management via OAuth integration.

  • 🔐 SCIM 2.0 Automated Provisioning: Enterprise-grade user and group provisioning through SCIM 2.0 protocol, enabling seamless integration with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace for automated user lifecycle management, reducing administrative overhead.

  • 📊 OpenTelemetry Observability: Export traces, metrics, and logs to your observability stack using OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP), supporting both gRPC and HTTP exporters with configurable endpoints, authentication, and sampling strategies for comprehensive production monitoring.

👑 Administration​

  • 👑 Super Admin Assignment: Automatically assigns the first sign-up as a super admin with an unchangeable role that cannot be modified by anyone else, not even other admins.

  • 🛡️ Granular User Permissions: Restrict user actions and access with customizable role-based permissions, ensuring that only authorized individuals can perform specific tasks.

  • 👥 Multi-User Management: Intuitive admin panel with pagination allows you to seamlessly manage multiple users, streamlining user administration and simplifying user life-cycle management.

  • 🔧 Admin Panel: The user management system is designed to streamline the on-boarding and management of users, offering the option to add users directly or in bulk via CSV import.

  • 👥 Active Users Indicator: Monitor the number of active users and which models are being utilized by whom to assist in gauging when performance may be impacted due to a high number of users.

  • 📊 Analytics Dashboard: Comprehensive usage insights for administrators including message volume, token consumption, user activity, and model performance metrics with interactive time-series charts and detailed breakdowns. Track costs, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions about resource allocation. Learn more about Analytics.

  • 🔒 Default Sign-Up Role: Specify the default role for new sign-ups to pending, user, or admin, providing flexibility in managing user permissions and access levels for new users.

  • 🤖 Bulk Model Management & Filtering: Administrators can effortlessly manage large model collections from external providers with tools to bulk enable/disable models and filter the admin list by status (Enabled, Disabled, Hidden, etc.) to maintain a clean workspace. Learn about Admin Models.

  • 🔒 Prevent New Sign-Ups: Enable the option to disable new user sign-ups, restricting access to the platform and maintaining a fixed number of users.

  • 🔒 Prevent Chat Deletion: Ability for admins to toggle a setting that prevents all users from deleting their chat messages, ensuring that all chat messages are retained for audit or compliance purposes.

  • 🔗 Webhook Integration: Subscribe to new user sign-up events via webhook (compatible with Discord, Google Chat, Slack and Microsoft Teams), providing real-time notifications and automation capabilities. See Webhook Guide.

  • 📣 Configurable Notification Banners: Admins can create customizable banners with persistence in config.json, featuring options for content, background color (info, warning, error, or success), and dismissibility. Banners are accessible only to logged-in users, ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive information.

  • 🛡️ Model Whitelisting: Enhance security and access control by allowing admins to whitelist models for users with the user role, ensuring that only authorized models can be accessed.

  • 🔑 Admin Control for Community Sharing: Admins can enable or disable community sharing for all users via a toggle in the Admin Panel > Settings menu. This toggle allows admins to manage accessibility and privacy, ensuring a secure environment. Admins have the option of enabling or disabling the Share on Community button for all users, which allows them to control community engagement and collaboration.

  • 📧 Trusted Email Authentication: Optionally authenticate using a trusted email header, adding an extra layer of security and authentication to protect your Open WebUI instance.

  • 🔒 Backend Reverse Proxy Support: Bolster security through direct communication between Open WebUI's backend and Ollama. This key feature eliminates the need to expose Ollama over the local area network (LAN). Requests made to the /ollama/api route from Open WebUI are seamlessly redirected to Ollama from the backend, enhancing overall system security and providing an additional layer of protection.

  • 🔒 Authentication: Please note that Open WebUI does not natively support federated authentication schemes such as SSO, OAuth, SAML, or OIDC. However, it can be configured to delegate authentication to an authenticating reverse proxy, effectively achieving a Single Sign-On (SSO) experience. This setup allows you to centralize user authentication and management, enhancing security and user convenience. By integrating Open WebUI with an authenticating reverse proxy, you can leverage existing authentication systems and streamline user access to Open WebUI. For more information on configuring this feature, please refer to the Federated Authentication Support.

  • 🔓 Optional Authentication: Enjoy the flexibility of disabling authentication by setting WEBUI_AUTH to False. This is an ideal solution for fresh installations without existing users or can be useful for demonstration purposes.

  • 🚫 Advanced API Security: Block API users based on customized model filters, enhancing security and control over API access.

  • ❗ Administrator Updates: Ensure administrators stay informed with immediate update notifications upon login, keeping them up-to-date on the latest changes and system statuses.

  • 👥 User Group Management: Create and manage user groups for seamless organization and control.

  • 🔐 Group-Based Access Control: Set granular access to models, knowledge, prompts, and tools based on user groups, allowing for more controlled and secure environments.

  • 🛠️ Granular User Permissions: Easily manage workspace permissions, including file uploads, deletions, edits, and temporary chats, as well as model, knowledge, prompt, and tool creation. See User Permissions Config.

  • 🔑 LDAP Authentication: Enhance security and scalability with LDAP support for user management. Learn more about LDAP.

  • 🔐 SCIM 2.0 Provisioning: Automate user and group lifecycle management through SCIM 2.0 protocol integration with identity providers like Okta, Azure AD, and Google Workspace, reducing administrative overhead and ensuring synchronized user management across systems.

  • 🌐 Customizable OpenAI Connections: Enjoy smooth operation with custom OpenAI setups, including prefix ID support and explicit model ID support for APIs.

  • 🔐 Ollama API Key Management: Manage Ollama credentials, including prefix ID support, for secure and efficient operation.

  • 🔄 Connection Management: Easily enable or disable individual OpenAI and Ollama connections as needed.

  • 🎨 Intuitive Model Workspace: Manage models across users and groups with a redesigned and user-friendly interface.

  • 🔑 API Key Authentication: Tighten security by easily enabling or disabling API key authentication.

  • 🔄 Unified Model Reset: Reset and remove all models from the Admin Settings with a one-click option.

  • 🔓 Flexible Model Access Control: Easily bypass model access controls for user roles when not required, using the 'BYPASS_MODEL_ACCESS_CONTROL' environment variable, simplifying workflows in trusted environments.

  • 🔒 Configurable API Key Authentication Restrictions: Flexibly configure endpoint restrictions for API key authentication, now off by default for a smoother setup in trusted environments.