# [open-webui](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui)

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted AI platform designed to run completely offline. It supports Ollama services and other compatible OpenAI API services, and comes with a built-in RAG reasoning engine, making it a powerful AI deployment solution.

1. You can start an API service with LMDeploy, or launch the service with ollama.
2. Follow the [guidance](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui?tab=readme-ov-file#installation-via-python-pip-) to install Open WebUI, and start the webui service with open-webui serve. Open the webui in your browser.
3. Refer to the [documentation](https://docs.openwebui.com/getting-started/quick-start/starting-with-ollama#step-2-managing-your-ollama-instance). Inside the opened page, find the settings, configure the OpenAI-like services or ollama services. Once configured, you can choose a model to engage in conversation.