Open WebUI
the front-end everyone pairs with ollama, under a licence that caps you at fifty users unless you keep its branding.
the most capable local chat interface there is, and the subtlest licensing trap in the category — source-available, endlessly called open source, and not.
as a product it is excellent: the most full-featured browser front-end for local models, actively developed, and it pairs with ollama, llama.cpp, localai or any openai-compatible backend. for most people running models locally with a nice interface, this is the interface.
the licence is a modified bsd-3-clause with an added branding clause. you may use it commercially only if open webui's branding stays intact — unless your deployment stays under 50 users in any rolling 30-day period, you obtain written permission, or you sign a paid enterprise licence. removing the branding without one is defined in the licence as a material breach.
the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.
- category
- local llm tools
- pricing
- free under 50 users
- website
- github.com
the most capable local chat interface there is, and the subtlest licensing trap in the category — source-available, endlessly called open source, and not.
we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.