Chatbox vs Open WebUI
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Chatbox
One tidy client for every LLM, with your own keys or hosted
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Open WebUI
Self-hosted chat interface for local and API models
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| RECATOOLS Score | 7 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Free hosted plan: 10,000 compute points a day, 5 images, web search and a Work Mode trial. The GPLv3 desktop Community Edition is free with your own API keys | Free to self-host with Open WebUI branding intact; deployments of 50 or fewer users in a rolling 30 days may rebrand |
| Paid from | $3.99/month (Lite), or $3.50/month billed annually | Enterprise licence: custom quote by seat count (organisations only) |
| Has API | ✗ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Mediocre, LLC | Open WebUI, Inc. |
| Verdict | Chatbox does one job well: one clean window over every model you already pay for. Paste keys for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini or DeepSeek, or point it at local models through Ollama or LM Studio, and they share one interface o... |
Open WebUI is one of the most complete self-hosted front ends for putting a private, multi-user chat portal over your own models or API keys: role-based accounts, retrieval over documents, web search, voice and a Python... |
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