20 Open WebUI alternatives
Open WebUI: A self-hosted, feature-rich chat interface that puts a polished front end on Ollama and any OpenAI-compatible API. 20 apps do similar work, most sharing Open Source, Local Models and Chatbot, ranked by how much they have in common with Open WebUI.
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Turn any website into clean markdown or structured JSON — crawling, JavaScript rendering, and extraction in one API.
Also: Open Source, RAG, Self-Hosted
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IBM (DataStax)
Open-source, MIT-licensed visual builder for AI agents, RAG apps and MCP servers, maintained by IBM's DataStax and extensible in Python.
Also: Open Source, RAG, Self-Hosted
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An open-source desktop AI client that talks to every major provider and your local models from one window.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models, Open Source
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Cloudflare
Open-source AI workspace you deploy into your own Cloudflare account: agent chat wired to company context, sandboxed app building, and policy guardrails.
Also: Chatbot, Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Mintplex Labs
An all-in-one private AI workspace: chat with your documents, run agents, and keep everything on your device.
Also: Local Models, RAG
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A polished desktop app for discovering, running, and chatting with local language models — no terminal required.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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Brave
Brave's built-in browser assistant that summarizes pages and PDFs, with Brave Search grounding and bring-your-own-model support.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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EGOIST
A fast, local-first desktop AI chat client that works with GPT, Claude, Gemini, and local models, with markdown and LaTeX rendering, web search, image generation, and MCP tool support.
Also: Chatbot, Local Models
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Instantly provide support with your custom AI agent
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Unsloth AI
Open-source desktop app to run, serve and fine-tune text, image, video and audio models entirely on your own machine.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Open-source inference engine that runs LLMs, vision and speech models fully on-device — no API keys, no cloud calls, from Swift to Godot.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Cactus Compute, Inc.
8-29 MB automation models that run on phones, wearables and microcontrollers — tool calling, structured extraction and embeddings, fully offline.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Continue
Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains and the terminal; acquired by Cursor in 2026 and no longer maintained.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Open-source local inference server that profiles your hardware, picks models that fit, and points your coding agent at them — free, private and offline.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Menlo Research
An open-source, offline-first ChatGPT alternative that runs models on your own computer.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Osaurus, Inc.
Native macOS harness for AI agents — any model, persistent memory, sandboxed execution and cryptographic identity, fully offline and open source.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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Advait Paliwal
Open-source AI research agent with a CLI and a local science workbench for deep literature review, paper retrieval and replication planning.
Also: Local Models, Open Source
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All Hands AI
OpenHands — the leading open-source coding agent platform, self-hostable or run in the cloud.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Jun Kim
Menu-bar LLM inference server for Apple Silicon, with continuous batching and tiered KV caching that keeps local models fast enough for real coding work.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted
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Roo Code
Self-hostable cloud coding agent from the Roo Code team — investigates repos, verifies its own work and opens pull requests, driven from Slack, Teams, Discord or Telegram rather than an IDE.
Also: Open Source, Self-Hosted