specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Open WebUI
providerId: open-webui
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: true
tags:
- LLM
- Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Ollama
- Chat UI
- RAG
- Plans
description: >-
  Open WebUI is free open-source software (modified BSD-3-Clause). There is no hosted SaaS plan or
  per-call charge from the Open WebUI project. Cost is incurred on your own infrastructure (compute,
  storage) and on any upstream LLM backend you connect (Ollama is local; OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. bill
  per token).
notes: Self-hosted OSS; no project-level pricing. Cost is your infra + upstream LLM provider.
sources:
- https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui
- https://openwebui.com/
plans:
- id: open-webui-self-host
  name: Self-Hosted (BSD-3-Clause)
  type: free
  description: Run Open WebUI on your own infrastructure under a modified BSD-3-Clause license.
  entries:
  - label: Self-Host
    name: self_host
    type: flat
    metric: deployment
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: lifetime
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: 0
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Docker / pip install
  - name: Modified BSD-3-Clause
  - name: Bring your own LLM backend
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com