Open WebUI allows you to run a chatbot like ChatGPT completely for free on your own machine, with no data being sent to a remote server.
Key Benefits of Open WebUI include being completely free, privacy-focused, with no daily message limits, compatibility with multiple AI backends, and a user-friendly interface.
To set up Open WebUI, Docker, Python, and pip need to be installed. Then, the Open WebUI package can be installed and run in a browser at http://localhost:3000.
To install and run AI models with Open WebUI, Ollama is recommended as an AI backend.