Is Open WebUI Still Maintained? Live GitHub Status
Open WebUI is a self-hosted web interface for chatting with local and remote LLMs, often used together with Ollama.
Short answer: Yes, it is actively maintained. Health score 100/100. Checked 18 Oct 2026.
What the numbers say
Open WebUI’s main branch received 2,142 commits in the last 91 days, against 1,799 in the same 91 days a year earlier (+19%). Activity is at least half of last year’s pace and no maintenance notice was found, so the index labels it active. It has 156,074 stars on GitHub. GitHub does not recognise its licence as a standard one, so read the licence file before commercial use.
Open WebUI usage: downloads and installs
open-webuiTrend: the monthly download count is stored once a day, starting 17 Oct 2026. A chart appears here after a week of readings.
Download and pull counts include automated installs from CI pipelines, containers and mirrors, so they show how widely the software is pulled, not how many people use it. Numbers from different registries are not comparable with each other. Sources: PyPI download statistics via ecosyste.ms, read 18 Oct 2026, 15:55 UTC.
Open WebUI security practices and adoption
Used by other projects
deps.dev: PyPI packages that depend on open-webui 0.12.3
- Indirect dependents0
- All dependents3
- RegistryPyPI
Scorecard checks security practices such as code review, branch protection and pinned dependencies; it does not find bugs, and a low score does not mean the software is unsafe. Dependents and download counts show reach, not quality. Sources: deps.dev, GitHub, read 18 Oct 2026, 16:32 UTC.
Health score breakdown
| Part | Points | Based on |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | 35.0 / 35 | 2,142 commits in the last 91 days (full marks at 600) |
| Trend | 20.0 / 20 | 119% of last year’s pace (full marks at 100%) |
| Recency | 15.0 / 15 | last commit 2 days ago |
| Releases | 10.0 / 10 | latest GitHub release 2 days ago |
| Community | 20.0 / 20 | 1,032 pull requests merged in the last 91 days (full marks at 300) |
Open issues and pull requests: 323. The score summarises maintenance signals only, not quality or security. How the score works
Open WebUI: common questions
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.
What is the latest Open WebUI release?
The latest GitHub release of Open WebUI is v0.12.3, published on 16 October 2026.
How many people contribute to Open WebUI?
GitHub lists 388 contributors for Open WebUI. 1,032 pull requests were merged in the last 91 days.
What licence does Open WebUI use?
GitHub does not match the Open WebUI licence to a standard one, so read its licence file before commercial use.
How many times is Open WebUI downloaded?
The open-webui package on PyPI was downloaded 1,302,921 times in the last month, according to ecosyste.ms (checked 18 October 2026). The count includes automated installs from CI pipelines and mirrors, so it is not a count of users.
How is the health score calculated?
It adds five parts from public GitHub data: commit activity over 91 days (35 points), the trend against the same period last year (20), how recent the last commit is (15), how recent the last release is (10) and merged pull requests (20). Archived projects score 0; a maintenance notice caps the score at 25. It measures maintenance signals only, not code quality or security.
Visitor rating
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Ratings come from visitors, not from EvalAITools, and are not part of the health status above. One rating per visitor per tool every 30 days.
Daily snapshots
| Date (UTC) | Stars | Commits, last 91 days | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Oct 2026 | 155,991 | 2,142 | Active |
| 17 Oct 2026 | 155,921 | 2,143 | Active |
| 16 Oct 2026 | 155,822 | 2,095 | Active |
One snapshot is stored per day, starting 16 October 2026. No status change has been recorded for Open WebUI since then.
Other local llm tools
| Tool | Status | Stars | Commits (91d) | vs last year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ollama | Active | 184k | 372 | +40% |
| Open WebUI | Active | 156k | 2,142 | +19% |
| llama.cpp | Active | 132k | 1,653 | +94% |
| vLLM | Active | 94.1k | 4,411 | +59% |
| LobeChat | Active | 83.3k | 2,597 | +169% |
| GPT4All | No recent commits | 77.3k | 0 | — |
| whisper.cpp | Active | 54.5k | 621 | +30% |
| LocalAI | Active | 49.6k | 1,482 | +185% |
| exo | Active | 48.0k | 92 | −6% |
| TextGen | Slowing down | 47.7k | 1 | −100% |
| LibreChat | Active | 45.9k | 1,589 | +289% |
| Jan | Active | 45.0k | 1,050 | −10% |
| SGLang | Active | 37.3k | 4,904 | +155% |
| llamafile | Active | 26.4k | 21 | — |
| MLC LLM | Slowing down | 23.3k | 18 | −55% |
| TensorRT-LLM | Active | 14.9k | 2,367 | +79% |
| KoboldCpp | Active | 12.0k | 1,886 | +62% |
| TGI (Hugging Face) | Archived | 10.9k | 0 | −100% |
| LMDeploy | Active | 8.1k | 148 | −5% |
| MLX-LM | Active | 7.4k | 134 | +6% |
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How this is measured: commits on the repository’s default branch counted through the GitHub API, the last 91 days against the same 91 days a year earlier; archived flag and licence from the repository; README checked daily for maintenance notices. Commit counts measure activity, not quality, and we have not tested this tool ourselves for this page.