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One command to start
Generate a secret key, run one Docker command, open the page and create the admin account. The slim image is 196 MB.
Free guide · Open WebUI 0.12.2
Give your team its own ChatGPT-style chat with Open WebUI and one Docker command
Open WebUI is a free chat app you host yourself. It looks like ChatGPT, but you connect your own models, and each person on your team gets a login. This guide starts it with one Docker command and shows you how to connect a model and invite your team.
- The Docker command with a fixed secret key, plus the smaller :slim image
- A ready prompt that lets your coding agent start it and check it for you
- 5 steps with screenshots, from first start to your team's logins
- What it costs, what you have to run yourself, and fixes for common problems
A look inside
What's inside
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Connect your models
Add OpenAI with its API address and key. Claude and Ollama connect from the same admin page.
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Let your team in
Switch on New Sign Ups, then approve each new account from the Pending list in the Admin Panel.
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Questions, answered
Is this guide free?
Yes. You sign up with your email once and get this guide plus every other guide in the library.
Is Open WebUI really free?
The software is. You pay the model provider for what your team uses, or nothing with local models through Ollama. You also run the server yourself. The project sells an optional enterprise plan, and its license requires the Open WebUI branding to stay once you have more than 50 users.
Does it send our chats to OpenAI or Anthropic?
Chats, users and settings stay in a volume on your own server. When you pick a cloud model, the messages for that chat go to that provider, as they would in the provider's own app. With a local Ollama model nothing leaves your machine.
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