Open WebUI hosting
A ChatGPT-style workspace for your team, pointed at any model you like.
Open WebUI hosting at AIHostBox means a dedicated, single-tenant Open WebUI instance on our infrastructure: we install it, pin it to a reviewed release, put it behind TLS on your domain, back it up nightly and keep it patched. Plans start at $5.99 per month and the admin account, the data and any API keys are yours.
Open WebUI is the front-end most people mean when they say they want “our own ChatGPT”. It gives you accounts and groups, conversation history, document upload with built-in RAG, model presets, prompt libraries and per-user permissions — over any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. That means you can put OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter and a local Ollama model side by side in one interface and let each team pick.
Hosted here it lives on your own domain with TLS, its own Postgres and nightly backups. Prompts and uploaded documents stay in your instance; the only thing that leaves is the model call you configured, billed to your own provider account. If you later add an Ollama plan, the two talk to each other privately over the internal network.
Open WebUI hosting plans
Every plan is a dedicated single-tenant instance with NVMe storage, nightly off-box backups, TLS and managed patching. Quarterly, semi-annual and annual terms are discounted at checkout. Model tokens are not included — you bring your own key.
How we run Open WebUI
The official ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui container on port 8080 with a persistent /app/backend/data volume, pointed at its own Postgres database through DATABASE_URL.
What we configure for you
- WEBUI_SECRET_KEY set to a random value and WEBUI_URL set to your domain
- ENABLE_SIGNUP off after the first admin, DEFAULT_USER_ROLE left at pending so new accounts wait for approval
- OPENAI_API_BASE_URLS and keys for your providers, or OLLAMA_BASE_URL for a private Ollama plan
- OAuth / OIDC (OPENID_PROVIDER_URL) or LDAP sign-in if you use one
- Built-in Chroma vector store, or VECTOR_DB=pgvector if you prefer the index inside Postgres
- WEB_SEARCH_ENGINE pointed at a SearXNG instance if you want cited web search
Which plan fits
Starter (2 GB) is right for a handful of people chatting with hosted models. Plus (4 GB) suits a team uploading documents, since the default local embedding model (all-MiniLM-L6-v2) runs on your CPU during ingestion. Pro (8 GB) is for larger knowledge bases and dozens of active users.
The honest limits
Open WebUI itself runs no model; answers come from your provider key or a separate runtime plan, and a local model on CPU gives 5-15 tokens/s at 7-8B. Since v0.6.6 the licence requires the Open WebUI branding to stay once you pass 50 users in a 30-day window, unless you hold an enterprise licence.
What people run Open WebUI for
Company-wide AI workspace
One login for the whole team, with usage visible and keys held centrally.
Chat over your documents
Upload manuals and contracts and ask questions against them without a separate RAG stack.
Multi-provider front-end
Compare answers from different models in the same thread.
Privacy-first replacement
Keep prompts off a vendor’s training pipeline while keeping the familiar interface.
Licence and version policy
| Item | Position |
|---|---|
| Upstream licence | Open WebUI License (BSD-3 with branding clause) |
| Sold as managed hosting | Yes |
| Tenancy | Single tenant — one customer per instance |
| Patching | Critical advisories within 24 hours, high severity within 72 |
Our full position on licences, including the applications we decline to sell, is on the licensing page.
Reading on Open WebUI
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Can several people use one instance?
Which model providers work?
Can we replace the Open WebUI branding?
Can staff sign in with our existing identity provider?
Where do chats and uploaded documents live, and how are they backed up?
Can we move over from our own Docker install?
How do upgrades work, given how often Open WebUI releases?
Run Open WebUI without running a server
A dedicated Open WebUI instance, deployed and maintained by us. Month to month, cancel whenever.