Open WebUI Alternatives
Tools that run a ChatGPT-style chat interface on your own server or computer, like Open WebUI. On GitHub, Open WebUI describes itself as: “User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)”. Below are the 5 other open-source tools we track for the same job, ranked by live maintenance data from GitHub.
Short answer: Ranked by our health score from public GitHub data on 18 October 2026, the most actively maintained alternatives to Open WebUI are LobeChat (100), Jan (98) and AnythingLLM (96). Open WebUI itself is still actively maintained (health score 100), so switching is a choice, not a necessity.
Should you switch from Open WebUI?
Open WebUI itself is still actively maintained (health score 100), so switching is a choice, not a necessity. Full Open WebUI record
5 maintained alternatives to Open WebUI, ranked
| # | Tool | Status | Health | Commits, 91 days | Latest release | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LobeChat🤯 LobeHub is your Chief Agent Operator, organizing your agents into 7×24 operations by hiring, scheduling, an… | Active | 100 | 2,597 +169% | 18 Oct 2026 | Custom | 83.3k |
| 2 | JanJan is an open source alternative to ChatGPT that runs 100% offline on your computer. | Active | 98 | 1,050 −10% | 9 Oct 2026 | Custom | 45.0k |
| 3 | AnythingLLMStop renting your intelligence. Own it with AnythingLLM. Everything you need for a powerful local-first agent… | Active | 96 | 318 +221% | 13 Oct 2026 | MIT | 67.3k |
| 4 | LibreChatEnhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, Skills, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure,… | Active | 95 | 1,589 +289% | None on GitHub | MIT | 45.9k |
| 5 | TextGenOpen-source desktop app for local LLMs. Text, vision, tool-calling, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API. 100% pri… | Slowing down | 18 | 1 −100% | 20 May 2026 | AGPL-3.0 | 47.7k |
Ranked by status first, then health score (0 to 100). Commits are counted on each project’s default branch; the percentage compares with the same 91 days a year earlier. Stars are bookmarks, not users.
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Open WebUI alternatives: common questions
What is the best alternative to Open WebUI?
No single tool is best for every project. By maintenance signals on 18 October 2026, the highest-ranked actively maintained alternative is LobeChat (health score 100, 2,597 commits in the last 91 days). Compare features and the licence before you switch; we have not tested these tools ourselves.
Is Open WebUI still maintained?
Yes. As of 18 October 2026, Open WebUI received 2,142 commits in the last 91 days and its latest commit is from 16 October 2026, and no maintenance notice was found. Its health score is 100 out of 100.
Which Open WebUI alternatives have a permissive licence?
Among the actively maintained alternatives, these use a permissive licence according to GitHub: AnythingLLM (MIT), LibreChat (MIT). Always read the licence file itself before commercial use.
How are these alternatives chosen and ranked?
We list the tools we track that do the same job as Open WebUI (Self-hosted chat interfaces). They are ranked by maintenance status first (active, slowing down, stopped) and by our health score second. The score combines commit activity, the trend against last year, the date of the last commit, the last release and merged pull requests, all from GitHub. It does not measure features, speed, quality or security.
How this works: we group tools by the job they do and rank the ones we track with public GitHub data (commits on the default branch, releases, merged pull requests, archived flag, and maintenance notices in the README), refreshed automatically. We have not tested these tools ourselves, so the ranking says how well each project is maintained, not which one has the features you need.