Ollama
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)
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Actively maintained
Real momentum
MIT
User-friendly AI Interface, supports Ollama, OpenAI API.
Open-WebUI is an open-source generative artificial intelligence (genai) project, with 149k GitHub stars and a health score of 91/100. It committed 4963 times in the last twelve months across 11 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: BSD-3-Clause. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-07-27 |
| Days since last commit | 21 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 1095 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 4963 |
| Months with activity | 11 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-07-27 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Category | Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Open-WebUI is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.
Actively maintained. Open-WebUI recorded 4963 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 11 of those months and 1095 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-07-27. Last release: 2026-07-27. Committed within the last 45 days.
Open-WebUI is published under BSD-3-Clause. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.
14 open-source implementations, 12 of them actively maintained, led by Ollama at 179k stars. Saturation score 45/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.
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