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Negative
issue: MCP tool errors reach the model as a Python list dump instead of the server's error textGitHub issue
When a tool call fails MCP schema validation, Open WebUI feeds the model a Python list dump that buries the server's error text, so the model repeats the same bad call.
Negative
Feat: Make knowledge base retrieval opt-in; no selection should mean no accessGitHub issue comment
A colleague's programming question in a blank new chat made the model query a team knowledge base, and details about the team were sent to the cloud provider. The team wants some knowledge bases usable only with local models, which Open WebUI cannot be configured to do.
Counts toward
Negative
Open WebUI picked the 'none' token auth method for X Ads' MCP server and dropped the configured client secret, so the connection could not be authorized.
Negative
With Azure OpenAI's Responses API, every turn where the model reasons and then calls a tool fails on the follow-up with HTTP 400, because stored reasoning items are replayed unfiltered.
Negative
issue: 0.12.0 multi-instance Redis setup: containers grow to 8-11 GB RAM under chat load (0.11.4 stable)GitHub issue
After upgrading a three-replica deployment to v0.12.0, containers grew from about 2 GB to 8 to 11 GB of RAM under chat load, and rolling back to v0.11.4 restored stability.
Negative
Over 30 days on the author's production instance, Open WebUI stored 31.8× the real input tokens for 3598 gemini-flash-latest messages through an OpenAI connection, which skews the usage tooltip, context compaction and any per-token pricing. Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5, which send usage only in the final chunk, were unaffected. A maintainer's one-word reply called it intended, and the issue was closed as completed.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centersHacker News comment
The company exposes an Open WebUI front end to its staff on an on-prem server with Gaudi 2 cards, connected to internal resources, for about US$20,000 in total, which six months of equivalent Claude usage would exceed.
Mixed
Comment on: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and workHacker News comment
Is test driving Open WebUI for the company while looking at a hosted agent platform.
Negative
With RDS IAM token auth the main database connects, but the pgvector client still asks for a password, so the container exits and the deployment never becomes healthy.
Negative
On v0.11.0 the built-in knowledge search fails while generating the query embedding and group-shared files become unreachable, because the tools build an incomplete user object.
Negative
issue: runAsNonRoot: true breaks on v0.11.0GitHub issue
A Kubernetes deployment on the latest tag started failing with runAsNonRoot because a cached model file in the image belongs to root with 0600 permissions.
Negative
In Temporary Chat mode the model creates tasks, then every update fails with task not found, because the task tools are offered where they cannot persist.
Counts toward
Negative
issue: Analytics Daily Endpoint fails when to many dataGitHub issue
The analytics daily endpoint returns HTTP 500 once there are many requests and messages, so the team built its own workaround that queries it in 30-day slices.
Negative
In production with about 40,000 users on Redis Sentinel, Open WebUI resolves the master and opens a new connection pool on every Redis operation, which caused about 6.9 new connections a second, event-loop stalls and liveness kills.
Negative
When a model API rejects a request for max_tokens, users see a bare 400 and the provider's error never reaches the logs, so admins cannot diagnose it.
Counts toward
Negative
How we picked LibreChat, and ended up with a Slack agentEngineering blog post, metabase.com
Metabase's Cloud team gave Open WebUI a genuine deployment and found it polished, with all the enterprise admin controls you would want, yet first-class support was effectively OpenAI-only. Anthropic needed a community-written Python function and MCP support was second-class at the time, and LibreChat won on operability.
Negative
issue: admin panel OAuth config is saved but never applied; SSO never activates without env varsGitHub issue
While setting up Keycloak SSO in production, OAuth settings saved in the admin panel were never applied, so SSO did not activate without environment variables.
Negative
Open WebUI stopped showing streamed thinking for GLM-5.2, Kimi-K2.6 and gpt-oss-120b, and thought blocks vanish during streaming until a refresh.
Mixed
Our AI Rollout Started With People, Not ProcessesReddit post
Chose LibreChat over Open WebUI for a company-wide rollout, mostly because it was lighter to run for their needs.
Negative
Hacker News comment on deploying Open WebUI with the Claude APIHacker News comment
One employee's ten messages of everyday work through Open WebUI cost US$200: Claude reported 44M input tokens with no cache hits, while Open WebUI reported 3M. In a reply the author names Anthropic caching, which the author had not known needed enabling, as the likely culprit.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: A playable DOOM MCP appHacker News comment
The team stood up Open WebUI for internal chat and agent use and tested filter functions and MCP with games such as Snake and DOOM.
Negative
Bug: Task endpoints (title/tags/follow-up generation) return 404 when chat model is from a direct connectionGitHub issue
At UMBC, title, tag and follow-up generation return 404 whenever the chat model comes from a user's direct connection, even with a server task model configured.
Counts toward
Negative
issue: delete_knowledge_by_id failsGitHub issue
Knowledge bases created on 0.6.28 throw a validation error when deleted on 0.8.12.
Negative
issue: Data truncated when uploaded as a file, no issues when the file text is pasted into the promptGitHub issue
Models could not see content past roughly the middle of an uploaded HTML file, while pasting the same text into the prompt worked, so the upload path truncates documents.
Counts toward
Negative
issue: Import of ChatGPT export file is brokenGitHub issue
Importing an unmodified ChatGPT export reported success while importing 0 chats from a file holding dozens.
Counts toward
Mixed
issue: Broken markdown checklistGitHub issue
A markdown checklist inside a fenced block renders outside the block in the chat view.
Counts toward
Negative
issue: YDocManager's remove_user_from_all_documents throws on websocket disconnect (with Redis Sentinel)GitHub issue
With Redis Sentinel, closing a browser tab throws errors on websocket disconnect and the session likely stays in the session pool.
Negative
issue: Severe TTFT increase when accessing vLLM through Open WebUIGitHub issue
Through Open WebUI's API, time to first token from vLLM rises to about 5 to 6 seconds, against about 600 ms calling vLLM directly with the same model and hardware.
Negative
issue: Microsoft SSO signup doesn't work after 0.6.41 updateGitHub issue
After the 0.6.41 update new users could no longer sign up through Microsoft SSO.
Negative
issue: Groups not imported from MS Entra IDGitHub issue
Users from Azure security groups can sign in through Entra ID, but their groups are never imported into Open WebUI.
Negative
issue: New OAuth 2.1 Streamable HTTP MCP server Eetries do not propagate across multi-node setupsGitHub issue
In a multi-node cluster, a newly added OAuth 2.1 MCP tool server works only on the node it was created on.
Negative
issue: PostgreSQL search crashes on invalid Unicode surrogate pairs in chat dataGitHub issue
Chat search on PostgreSQL crashes with a 500 when stored chats contain invalid Unicode surrogate pairs.
Negative
issue: A users groups aren't always updated on OAuh loginGitHub issue
With OAuth group management on, a user's groups update only on the second login after a role change in the identity provider.
Mixed
LibreChat vs Open WebUI for secure cloud deployment (multi-tenant, sensitive data)Reddit post
Weighs LibreChat against Open WebUI for a multi-tenant production deployment holding legal and healthcare data, with Keycloak OIDC and one VM per tenant.
Mixed
Hacker News comment on chat clients tried for a teamHacker News comment
Deployed Open WebUI for the team to chat through many APIs and finds it works well as a multi-user web deployment, though image generation has not been working. As a personal client it is sometimes buggy, with frequent fixes.
Positive
Comment on: Show HN: Hob, Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPTHacker News comment
Recommends Open WebUI for its large feature set, large community, and offline operation by default, while noting it is geared to technical users.
Negative
issue: on a slow connection, the chat I open can show an old copy, and my next message forks the chatGitHub issue
On a slow connection an opened chat can show an old copy, and the next message forks the conversation.
Negative
Each PDF upload with image OCR starts a thread pool sized to the host's cores, which starves the server under several uploads.
Negative
bug: Unbounded memory growth (12-35 GB, OOM kill) in v0.12.x during multi-step tool callingGitHub issue
One agentic turn with 20 to 40 sequential tool calls on a fast streaming model grew backend memory to 12 to 35 GB in under two minutes until the process was killed.
Negative
On v0.12.0 some browser tabs reinitialise about ten times a second and saturate the server's CPU and database pool.
Negative
GitHub issue on Open WebUI networkingGitHub issue
After a fresh install of the desktop app on macOS 26, Open WebUI could not reach the user's server on the internal network.
"…could not reach server on internal network…"
Negative
issue: chat search on PostgreSQL takes 5-15 s per query with a few thousand chatsGitHub issue
Chat search on a PostgreSQL-backed instance takes 5 to 15 seconds per query with only a few thousand chats.
Positive
Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?Hacker News comment
Calls the DeepSeek API through a custom Open WebUI pipe function, with a similar pipe for Anthropic's API.
Negative
With GPT-6 Sol, Luna, and Astra on an Amazon Bedrock connection, Open WebUI's title task sends max_tokens, which Bedrock rejects, so every chat is named after its first message.
Positive
Comment on: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI BrowsingHacker News comment
Runs Open WebUI with a local Qwen model and a Playwright MCP server in two containers as a fully local alternative.
Negative
Comment on: Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backendHacker News comment
Tried Open WebUI and did not want to run a web host locally or configure many settings just to chat with a new model, and built a different app.
Not counted
Its author builds a competing chat app. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Positive
Hacker News comment on Open WebUI for local modelsHacker News comment
Says Open WebUI is the better, more mature tool today for running local models, with a large ecosystem.
Not counted
The author builds a competing chat interface. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Mixed
Hacker News comment on Open WebUI with local modelsHacker News comment
On an Open WebUI setup, the model mostly ignores the initial prompt after the first couple of exchanges.
"Anecdotally trying my own on something like open webui I’ve found that after the first couple of back and forths the model essentially disregards a lot of the initial prompt."
Positive
Comment on: Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolutionHacker News comment
Runs Qwen and Gemma models locally and uses Open WebUI's web search and code execution, which covers most of what a hosted model would.
Negative
issue: idle performance regression caused by timer query in 0.11.0GitHub issue
After upgrading from 0.10.2 to 0.11.0, idle CPU and memory rose sharply on a Raspberry Pi 5 because a new timer poll query scans the whole chat table.
Positive
Comment on: Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your MacHacker News comment
Has run DeepSeek V4 Flash locally on a MacBook Pro for weeks with Open WebUI as the interface.
Counts toward
Negative
Web search stopped silently after an update, because v0.10 required native function calling and a larger context per model, and nothing showed in the logs.
Positive
Reddit post on Open WebUI with OllamaReddit post, r/selfhosted
Deployed Ollama with Open WebUI for a private local LLM with no API bills and nothing leaving the network.
"I wanted a local, private LLM with a nice chat UI, no API bills and nothing leaving my network so i deployed Ollama and Open WebUI for the front end."
Counts toward
Positive
Self-hosted LLMs with Ollama and Open WebUI using Docker ComposePersonal blog post, totaldebug.uk
Calls Open WebUI a polished self-hosted chat interface with conversations, multiple models, user accounts, and file uploads, and still would not publish it straight to the internet on a raw port.
Negative
Comment on: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engineHacker News comment
Open WebUI's SearX integration works, but the search results it produced were not particularly good.
Positive
Comment on: You've tried DuckDuckGo and Brave Search, now get serious with SearXNGHacker News comment
Uses self-hosted SearXNG for web search inside a privacy-oriented home AI stack built on Open WebUI.
Negative
Hacker News comment on Open WebUI image generationHacker News comment
Tried Ollama with Open WebUI and found no image generation support.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identityHacker News comment
Runs Qwen3.6-35B-A3B through llama.cpp on a home server with Open WebUI as the interface, with a separate account for a teenager.
Mixed
Comment on: Odysseus, self-hosted AI workspaceHacker News comment
Credits Open WebUI's features but says they were built for chat completions before coding agents and harnesses arrived.
Negative
Comment on: Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labsHacker News comment
Finds that Open WebUI does not appear to support Anthropic prompt caching, which shows as missing cache hits.
Counts toward
Positive
Comment on: Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoEHacker News comment
Pairs Open WebUI for general chat with OpenCode for software tasks and finds the pair close to Claude Desktop and Claude Code.
Negative
issue: v0.9.1 web search with Firecrawl fails: NameError: requests is not defined in retrieval/web/utils.pyGitHub issue
On v0.9.1 web search through Firecrawl silently returns no sources because of a missing import, so answers fall back to ungrounded text.
Mixed
Comment on: Mozilla ThunderboltHacker News comment
Read the docs and is considering doubling down on Open WebUI, but dislikes that tools and functions are confined to the same server.
Positive
Comment on: The local LLM ecosystem doesn't need OllamaHacker News comment
Runs Ollama behind Open WebUI, which handles downloading and swapping between models.
Positive
After two months of Open WebUI updates, I'd pick it over ChatGPT's interface for local LLMsHands-on column, XDA Developers
After the 0.8 releases added an analytics dashboard, skills, prompt version control and an in-browser terminal, would now recommend Open WebUI to someone new to self-hosting an LLM interface. It is still rough in places, and with OpenTerminal it prints tool-call syntax in the chat.
Mixed
Reddit post on Open WebUI with OllamaReddit post, r/selfhosted
Runs Open WebUI and Ollama on Docker Desktop and WSL2 and is asking how to make the local chatbot perform better.
"I run open webui and ollama with docker desktop and WSL2 (Ubuntu)."
Mixed
Open UI, a native iOS Open WebUI client, is now live on the App Store (open source)Reddit post
Loves running Open WebUI but found the mobile PWA does not feel like a native app, so built an iOS client for it.
Negative
Comment on: OSS ChatGPT WebUI, 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio GenHacker News comment
Has used Open WebUI for a while and is frustrated by the license and by having no way to simply pay to change the branding.
Negative
Comment on: OSS ChatGPT WebUI, 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio GenHacker News comment
Says the switch to a license that inhibits competitive forks means they will never use Open WebUI, and builds an open-source alternative.
Not counted
Its author builds a competing open-source chat interface. Kept in the record; it takes part in no figure.
Negative
issue: Unable to Export ChatsGitHub issue
On a clean install, Export All Chats returns a 500 and nothing downloads, although chat itself works.
Mixed
Platform for creating AI agents with permission-based tool callingReddit post
Has spent months building an agent prototype on Open WebUI, n8n, and PydanticAI and is looking for permission-based tool calling.
Negative
Hacker News comment on Open WebUI licenceHacker News comment
Hoped someone would fork Open WebUI before the licence change and keep an open-source version.
"I hoped that someone would fork OpenWebUI before the license change an maintain a OSS Version."
Negative
OpenwebUI - portainer unable to create stack errorReddit post
Could not update an existing Open WebUI stack in Portainer for several weeks.
Positive
Self-hosted AI is the way to go!Reddit post
Set up local AI with Ollama and Open WebUI over a weekend and recommends self-hosting it.
Negative
Hacker News comment on Open WebUI licenceHacker News comment
Warns that after its licence change Open WebUI is no longer open source.
Negative
Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAHacker News comment
Reads the new license as forbidding both endorsing a fork with Open WebUI's branding and removing that branding from it.
Negative
Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAHacker News comment
Expects the branding clause to make the license non open source by the standard definition, as Redis's Commons Clause was.
Negative
Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAHacker News comment
Objects that the new clauses were invented and appended to the previous 3-clause BSD license, and asks whether a lawyer wrote them.
Pages from Open WebUI, used to check facts for every group.
States that Open WebUI is free to use as-is without an enterprise agreement, and that optional licenses add white labeling and dedicated support, quoted from the expected end-user count.
Documents SSO through OIDC and OAuth 2.0, LDAP and Active Directory, RBAC, a request audit log off by default, retention set by the operator's own database, and that compliance certifications apply to the deployment.
Documents DEFAULT_MODELS for the default model on new chats, AUDIT_LOG_LEVEL with NONE as the default, and SCIM 2.0 endpoints in the free edition.
States that from v0.6.6 branding may not be removed or altered except for deployments with 50 or fewer users in a 30-day period, with written permission, or under an enterprise license.
States that Ollama models appear in the model selector automatically, with no configuration needed.
Source index
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| Source | Original URL | Author and context | Who | Published | Review date | Applies | Findings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comment on: Show HN: Hob, Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPTID ow-33 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | prophesi, Hacker News commenterself-described: Recommending a local assistant | Individual user | Published Oct 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: on a slow connection, the chat I open can show an old copy, and my next message forks the chatID ow-08 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | eliavb43, GitHub userself-described: Using Open WebUI over a slow connection | Individual user | Published Oct 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: MCP tool errors reach the model as a Python list dump instead of the server's error textID ow-68 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Miklós Pathy, Puli Space Technologies (GitHub profile)self-described: MCP tools reached through an OpenAI-compatible model with native tool calling | Department | Published Oct 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Feat: Make knowledge base retrieval opt-in; no selection should mean no accessID ow-74 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | yGuy (Sebastian Müller), CTO at yWorks (GitHub profile)self-described: A team instance that mixes commercial cloud models and local models, with a knowledge base shared across the team | Department | Published Oct 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: PDF image OCR (RapidOCR) starts one onnxruntime thread pool per upload sized to the host's cores and starves the serverID ow-07 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | maurerle, GitHub userself-described: Document uploads with image OCR | Individual user | Published Oct 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Static OAuth 2.1 MCP client uses none auth when server lists ["none", "client_secret_basic"], ignoring the configured client secretID ow-43 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Ryota Kameoka, engineer at HERP (GitHub profile)self-described: Connecting an MCP tool server that uses OAuth 2.1 with a client secret | Department | Published Oct 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Responses API follow-up after a tool call fails with 400 "Unknown parameter: 'input[n].status'" (stored reasoning items replayed unfiltered)ID ow-69 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | viktorashi, Stratec Biomedical (GitHub profile)self-described: An Azure OpenAI Responses API connection with a reasoning model | Department | Published Oct 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| bug: Unbounded memory growth (12-35 GB, OOM kill) in v0.12.x during multi-step tool callingID ow-06 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | tuomomaki-lgtm, GitHub userself-described: Docker deployment with Redis 7 and PostgreSQL 16 on v0.12.3 | Individual user | Published Oct 19, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: v0.12.0: Some browser tabs enter an endless reinitialise loop (~10/s), Session not found on every socket user_join, saturating server CPU and DB poolID ow-04 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | raghukn, GitHub userself-described: A v0.12.0 instance with several open browser tabs | Individual user | Published Oct 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| GitHub issue on Open WebUI networkingID sf-6 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | simoccc, GitHub userself-described: Self-hosted deployment on an internal network | Individual user | Published Oct 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Listed, no finding position |
| issue: 0.12.0 multi-instance Redis setup: containers grow to 8-11 GB RAM under chat load (0.11.4 stable)ID ow-02 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | clg-e2e-tester-lang, GitHub user running a multi-instance deploymentself-described: Three replicas per host sharing one Redis, with several users and tabs active | Small team | Published Oct 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: chat search on PostgreSQL takes 5-15 s per query with a few thousand chatsID ow-03 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | xyonium, GitHub userself-described: A PostgreSQL-backed instance with a few thousand chats | Individual user | Published Oct 12, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?ID ow-32 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Primer81, Hacker News commenterself-described: A custom pipe function calling a model API | Individual user | Published Oct 10, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
issue: streamed usage is summed per chunk, inflating input_tokens ~30x for providers that send cumulative usage on every chunk (Google OpenAI-compatible endpoint)ID ow-75 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Christoph Lauper, Digitec Galaxus AG (GitHub profile)self-described: A production instance with Gemini, Claude Sonnet 5 and Claude Opus 5 on OpenAI-compatible connections | Department | Published Oct 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: chat title generation fails for OpenAI GPT-6 models on Amazon Bedrock (400 'max_tokens' is not supported)ID ow-70 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | kimnamu, GitHub userself-described: Open WebUI v0.11.4 on a Bedrock chat completions connection | Individual user | Published Sep 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI BrowsingID ow-31 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | spwa4, Hacker News commenterself-described: A local stack of Open WebUI with a Playwright MCP server | Individual user | Published Sep 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Show HN: AirmailAI, a BYOK LLM chat app with a browser extension backendID ow-30 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | blake__dev, author of a competing chat appself-described: Building an alternative chat app | Individual user | Published Sep 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Not counted. Its author builds a competing chat app. |
| Hacker News comment on Open WebUI for local modelsID sf-5 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | theguysudo, Hacker News userself-described: Author of a competing chat interface | Individual user | Published Sep 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Not counted. The author builds a competing chat interface. |
| Comment on: U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centersID ow-29 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Gormo, Hacker News commenter speaking for a companyself-described: A company server with Gaudi 2 cards running open-weight models | Small team | Published Aug 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Hacker News comment on Open WebUI with local modelsID sf-1 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | beret4breakfast, Hacker News userself-described: Trying long system prompts on a local setup | Individual user | Published Aug 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and workID ow-28 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | iamniels, Hacker News commenter evaluating tools for a companyself-described: Test driving Open WebUI for a company | Small team | Published Aug 5, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| bug: pgvector client ignores DATABASE_ENABLE_IAM_TOKEN_AUTH, so RDS IAM auth and VECTOR_DB=pgvector cannot be used togetherID ow-44 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Roman (moltar), ScaleLeap (GitHub profile)self-described: Open WebUI on Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL with IAM token auth and pgvector | Department | Published Jul 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolutionID ow-27 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Joseph Szymborski (jszymborski), postdoc at McGill University and Mila (HN profile)self-described: Local Qwen and Gemma models on an RTX 5090 | Individual user | Published Jul 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: idle performance regression caused by timer query in 0.11.0ID ow-45 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Dara Adib, Applemon Technologies (GitHub profile)self-described: A Raspberry Pi 5 instance on SQLite with chat history | Individual user | Published Jul 29, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: builtin retrieval tools build an incomplete user object, breaking knowledge search and group-shared file accessID ow-46 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Damien S, Cloud Engineer at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (GitHub profile)self-described: An institute deployment with knowledge bases and an external embedding endpoint | Department | Published Jul 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: runAsNonRoot: true breaks on v0.11.0ID ow-47 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | cono, Chartbeat (GitHub profile)self-described: A Kubernetes deployment that followed the latest tag | Department | Published Jul 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Task Management builtin tools (create_tasks/update_task) fail in Temporary Chat mode: "Task with id not found"ID ow-48 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Marco A. Rueda, Senior AI Engineer at Volkswagen Digital Solutions (GitHub profile)self-described: Built-in task tools in Temporary Chat mode | Department | Published Jul 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Analytics Daily Endpoint fails when to many dataID ow-49 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Erik, Tech Lead AI and Senior Solution Architect at HUK Coburg (GitHub profile)self-described: An Open WebUI deployment on Kubernetes with heavy usage | Department | Published Jul 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your MacID ow-26 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | D13Fd, Hacker News commenterself-described: DeepSeek V4 Flash on a MacBook Pro | Individual user | Published Jul 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| bug: SentinelRedisProxy re-resolves Sentinel master on every op (new pool per call) → Redis connection churn + event-loop stalls/liveness kills under load (v0.10.2)ID ow-50 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Jian Guo, KION GROUP IT (GitHub profile)self-described: A Kubernetes deployment with Redis Sentinel | Department | Published Jul 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: max_tokens rejection by upstream provider returns bare 400 to user with no log entry and no actionable messageID ow-51 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | E. Dalton, research analyst at Moodle (GitHub profile)self-described: Open WebUI in front of an upstream model API | Department | Published Jul 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| How we picked LibreChat, and ended up with a Slack agentID ow-71 | Blogs & Reviews | www.metabase.com/ | Arkadi Yaroslavtsev, Engineering Manager for Metabase Cloud (Metabase author page)self-described: Metabase's Cloud team choosing one self-hosted chat front end to standardize the whole company on | Organization-wide | Published Jul 20, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Is it just me, or do you guys ever at times feel like a prisoner to your server, always having to diagnose and fix endless problems?ID ow-41 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | God_Hand_9764, r/selfhosted memberself-described: An Ollama, Open WebUI and SearXNG stack | Individual user | Published Jul 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: admin panel OAuth config is saved but never applied; SSO never activates without env varsID ow-52 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Dāvis Pazars, AI Engineer at Mikrotik (GitHub profile)self-described: A production instance being set up with Keycloak SSO | Department | Published Jul 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Reddit post on Open WebUI with OllamaID sf-7 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | marksie1988, Reddit userself-described: Home server | Individual user | Published Jul 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Self-hosted LLMs with Ollama and Open WebUI using Docker ComposeID ow-01 | Blogs & Reviews | totaldebug.uk/ | Steven Marks, author of totaldebug.ukself-described: A home server running Ollama with Open WebUI in Docker Compose | Individual user | Published Jul 6, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: open-webui stopped streaming reasoning tokens, and often does not display the thought block before or after toolcallsID ow-53 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Mark Nguyen, Retool (GitHub profile)self-described: Chats with reasoning models such as GLM-5.2 and gpt-oss-120b | Department | Published Jul 4, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engineID ow-25 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | drnick1, Hacker News commenterself-described: A local AI stack with web search | Individual user | Published Jul 3, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: You've tried DuckDuckGo and Brave Search, now get serious with SearXNGID ow-24 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | wyrdcurt (Curt), OptiMoss.ai (HN profile)self-described: A low-budget, privacy-oriented home AI stack | Individual user | Published Jun 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Hacker News comment on Open WebUI image generationID sf-2 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | Pxtl, Hacker News userself-described: Ollama with Open WebUI | Individual user | Published Jun 25, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identityID ow-22 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | roadside_picnic, Hacker News commenterself-described: A home server running Qwen3.6-35B-A3B through llama.cpp | Individual user | Published Jun 23, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Our AI Rollout Started With People, Not ProcessesID ow-40 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | pablooliva, led a company-wide self-hosted AI rolloutself-described: A company-wide self-hosted AI rollout | Organization-wide | Published Jun 22, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Odysseus, self-hosted AI workspaceID ow-21 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | jerieljan, Hacker News commenterself-described: A server running both Open WebUI and OpenCode | Individual user | Published Jun 1, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labsID ow-20 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | SyneRyder, founder and indie developer of namesuppressed (HN profile)self-described: Anthropic models through Open WebUI | Individual user | Published May 27, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Hacker News comment on deploying Open WebUI with the Claude APIID ow-72 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | stavros, founder of Stochastic Technologies (self-described on the site linked from the HN profile)self-described: Open WebUI deployed with the Claude API for employees, on a new API key | Organization-wide | Published May 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoEID ow-19 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | RationPhantoms, Hacker News commenterself-described: Open WebUI for chat beside OpenCode for coding | Individual user | Published Apr 30, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: A playable DOOM MCP appID ow-18 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | alach11, reservoir engineer, data scientist and product manager at a Houston oil and gas company (HN profile), speaking for a company teamself-described: Open WebUI stood up for internal chat and agent use | Small team | Published Apr 28, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Bug: Task endpoints (title/tags/follow-up generation) return 404 when chat model is from a direct connectionID ow-54 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Tim Champ, UMBC (GitHub profile)self-described: A university deployment on ECS Fargate with direct user connections | Organization-wide | Published Apr 24, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: v0.9.1 web search with Firecrawl fails: NameError: requests is not defined in retrieval/web/utils.pyID ow-55 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Amit Bahree, Core AI at Microsoft (GitHub profile)self-described: Web search through SearXNG and Firecrawl | Individual user | Published Apr 21, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Mozilla ThunderboltID ow-17 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | androiddrew, Hacker News commenterself-described: Evaluating chat front ends | Individual user | Published Apr 18, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: The local LLM ecosystem doesn't need OllamaID ow-16 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | nextlevelwizard, Hacker News commenterself-described: Ollama backend with Open WebUI as the front end | Individual user | Published Apr 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: delete_knowledge_by_id failsID ow-56 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Christian Otto Stelter, Senior DevOps Engineer at PlusServer (GitHub profile)self-described: Knowledge bases created on 0.6.x and deleted on 0.8.x | Department | Published Apr 16, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Data truncated when uploaded as a file, no issues when the file text is pasted into the promptID ow-57 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Jason Culligan, Intel (GitHub profile)self-described: Uploading HTML documents for the model to read | Department | Published Apr 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| After two months of Open WebUI updates, I'd pick it over ChatGPT's interface for local LLMsID ow-76 | Blogs & Reviews | www.xda-developers.com/ | Adam Conway, Lead Technical Editor at XDA (his XDA author page)self-described: Daily use with a local model, installing each 0.8 release as it came | Individual user | Published Apr 15, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Reddit post on Open WebUI with OllamaID sf-8 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Dalkamyr, Reddit userself-described: Docker Desktop on WSL2 | Individual user | Published Apr 9, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Import of ChatGPT export file is brokenID ow-58 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Florian, Lead Software Engineer at TKWW (The Knot Worldwide) (GitHub profile)self-described: Importing a ChatGPT conversations export | Department | Published Apr 8, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Open UI, a native iOS Open WebUI client, is now live on the App Store (open source)ID ow-42 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | Zealousideal_Fox6426, r/selfhosted member and author of an iOS clientself-described: Using Open WebUI on mobile | Individual user | Published Mar 13, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: OSS ChatGPT WebUI, 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio GenID ow-14 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | turblety, Hacker News commenterself-described: A long-time Open WebUI user | Individual user | Published Jan 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: OSS ChatGPT WebUI, 530 Models, MCP, Tools, Gemini RAG, Image/Audio GenID ow-15 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | mythz, ServiceStack (HN profile), author of a competing open-source chat UIself-described: Building an alternative chat UI | Individual user | Published Jan 26, 2026 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | Not counted. Its author builds a competing open-source chat interface. |
| issue: Broken markdown checklistID ow-67 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Vladimir Levin, Woven by Toyota (GitHub profile)self-described: Rendering model answers that contain markdown | Department | Published Dec 28, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Unable to Export ChatsID ow-66 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Sameer Trivedi, Software Developer at ZEISS (GitHub profile)self-described: A clean Docker install with an OpenRouter connection | Individual user | Published Dec 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: YDocManager's remove_user_from_all_documents throws on websocket disconnect (with Redis Sentinel)ID ow-59 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Jan Kessler, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (GitHub profile)self-described: A university instance on Redis Sentinel | Organization-wide | Published Dec 23, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Platform for creating AI agents with permission-based tool callingID ow-38 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | NeoID, r/selfhosted memberself-described: An agent prototype with Open WebUI, n8n and PydanticAI | Individual user | Published Dec 17, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Severe TTFT increase when accessing vLLM through Open WebUIID ow-60 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Michael, MLOps Engineer at MagnitTech (GitHub profile)self-described: Open WebUI's API in front of a vLLM backend | Department | Published Dec 17, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Microsoft SSO signup doesn't work after 0.6.41 updateID ow-61 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Aslan Vatsaev, Lead GenAI software engineer at Edenred (GitHub profile)self-described: Microsoft SSO sign-up for new users | Department | Published Dec 16, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: Groups not imported from MS Entra IDID ow-62 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Matthias Weise, intercorp (GitHub profile)self-described: An internal instance signing in through Microsoft Entra ID | Department | Published Dec 16, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: New OAuth 2.1 Streamable HTTP MCP server Eetries do not propagate across multi-node setupsID ow-63 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Taylor Wilsdon, director of engineering at Yelp (GitHub profile)self-described: A multi-node cluster with Redis config sync | Department | Published Dec 12, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: PostgreSQL search crashes on invalid Unicode surrogate pairs in chat dataID ow-65 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Boris Bakchiev, Morris Technology (GitHub profile)self-described: Chat search on a PostgreSQL-backed instance | Department | Published Nov 27, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| issue: A users groups aren't always updated on OAuh loginID ow-64 | Practitioner Communities | github.com/ | Tobias Genannt, q.beyond (GitHub profile)self-described: OAuth group management | Department | Published Nov 25, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Hacker News comment on Open WebUI licenceID sf-3 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | randomtoast, Hacker News userself-described: Following Open WebUI's licence | Individual user | Published Nov 3, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| LibreChat vs Open WebUI for secure cloud deployment (multi-tenant, sensitive data)ID ow-37 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | FamDev, r/selfhosted member evaluating for a production deploymentself-described: A planned deployment in a national public cloud for legal and healthcare data with Keycloak OIDC | Small team | Published Oct 10, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| OpenwebUI - portainer unable to create stack errorID ow-36 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | ExceptionOccurred, r/selfhosted memberself-described: An existing Portainer stack | Individual user | Published Oct 4, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Self-hosted AI is the way to go!ID ow-35 | Practitioner Communities | www.reddit.com/ | benhaube, r/selfhosted memberself-described: Ollama with Open WebUI set up over a weekend | Individual user | Published Sep 7, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Hacker News comment on chat clients tried for a teamID ow-73 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | ojosilva, B2B founder (HN profile)self-described: Open WebUI deployed for a team to chat through many model APIs | Department | Published Jul 31, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Hacker News comment on Open WebUI licenceID sf-4 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | rthnbgrredf, Hacker News userself-described: Following Open WebUI's licence | Individual user | Published May 30, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Current | |
| Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAID ow-09 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | kmeisthax, Hacker News commenterself-described: Reading the April 2025 license change | Individual user | Published May 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAID ow-10 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | PeterZaitsev, Hacker News commenterself-described: Reading the April 2025 license change | Individual user | Published May 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| Comment on: Open WebUI changed license from BSD-3 to Open WebUI license with CLAID ow-11 | Practitioner Communities | news.ycombinator.com/ | roryirvine, principal infrastructure and platform engineer at a tech consultancy (HN profile)self-described: Reading the April 2025 license change | Individual user | Published May 6, 2025 | Assessment reviewed Nov 1, 2026 | Still applicable | |
| EnterpriseID owd-01 | Product Documentation | docs.openwebui.com/ | Open WebUIOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Enterprise securityID owd-02 | Product Documentation | docs.openwebui.com/ | Open WebUIOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| Environment configurationID owd-03 | Product Documentation | docs.openwebui.com/ | Open WebUIOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| LicenseID owd-04 | Product Documentation | docs.openwebui.com/ | Open WebUIOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
| OllamaID owd-05 | Product Documentation | docs.openwebui.com/ | Open WebUIOfficial | Not counted (documentation) | No date stated | Documentation checked Oct 28, 2026 | Current | Verification only |
