Open WebUI Deep Usage Guide: What Can a 145K Star Private AI Assistant Do

Open WebUI is an open-source ChatGPT-like interface with 145K+ GitHub stars. Pair it with Ollama for a fully local ChatGPT experience: multi-model switching, RAG knowledge base, web search, multi-user support, and prompt templates. One Docker command to deploy.

💡 What You Will Learn

Open WebUI is an open-source ChatGPT-like interface with 145K+ GitHub stars. Pair it with Ollama for a fully local ChatGPT experience: multi-model switching, RAG knowledge base, web search, multi-user

📜 Table of Contents

• Open WebUI Guide
• Install
• Features
• Stack

Open WebUI Guide

Open WebUI is an open-source ChatGPT-like interface with 145K+ GitHub stars. Pair it with Ollama for a fully local ChatGPT experience.

Install

docker run -d -p 3000:8080 -v open-webui:/app/backend/data \
  -e OLLAMA_BASE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:11434 \
  --name open-webui ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main

Features

• Multi-model switching
• RAG knowledge base
• Web search
• Multi-user support
• Prompt templates

Stack

Ollama runs models, Open WebUI provides the interface. This is the standard AI workstation setup in 2026.