open-webui Crosses 140K Stars — The De Facto Self-Hosted AI Chat Frontend for Ollama and OpenAI-Compatible Backends

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open-webui/open-webui, the Python-based self-hosted chat interface, now sits at 140,298 stars, cementing its position as the most popular open-source frontend for local and API-served LLMs. It supports Ollama, any OpenAI-compatible API, RAG, and multi-model routing. For builders, it remains the fastest path to a private, brandable ChatGPT-style UI on your own hardware.