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Open WebUI alternatives

Open WebUI is self-hosted ChatGPT-style UI for local models. It is a poor fit if you want hosted support, not a repo to run. Here are 6 tools on Toolora that do a similar job, 6 of them free or with a free tier, and what each one does differently.

Open WebUI profileFree / open source
  1. 01

    Ollama

    FreeToolora score96

    Run open models locally with one command

    Instead of Open WebUI: Open source, with 165k GitHub stars.

    Free

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  2. 02

    llama.cpp

    Open sourceToolora score97

    Run LLMs locally with pure C/C++

    Instead of Open WebUI: Open source, with 92k GitHub stars.

    Free / open source

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  3. 03

    LocalAI

    Open sourceToolora score92

    Run language, vision, and voice models on your own machine behind an OpenAI-compatible API

    Instead of Open WebUI: Also covers local llm and self hosted.

    Free / open source

    Get it here↗Compare with Open WebUI
  4. 04

    Tabby

    Open sourceToolora score88

    A self-hosted AI coding assistant that suggests and completes code from your own models or a local box

    Instead of Open WebUI: Also covers self hosted.

    Free / open source; self-host on your hardware

    Get it here↗Compare with Open WebUI
  5. 05

    Hugging Face Transformers

    Open sourceToolora score98

    The standard library for pretrained AI models

    Instead of Open WebUI: Open source, with 158k GitHub stars.

    Free open source + Hub paid plans

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  6. 06

    Jan

    Open sourceToolora score89

    Open-source desktop app for local chat models

    Instead of Open WebUI: Also covers local llm.

    Free / open source

    Get it here↗Compare with Open WebUI

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