Open WebUI vs Jan
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Open WebUI
Self-hosted chat interface for local and API models
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| RECATOOLS Score | 8.3 / 10 | 7.2 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Freemium | Open Source |
| Free tier | Free to self-host with Open WebUI branding intact; deployments of 50 or fewer users in a rolling 30 days may rebrand | Free and open source (Apache 2.0). Local models run offline; cloud connectors use your own provider API keys |
| Paid from | Enterprise licence: custom quote by seat count (organisations only) | — |
| Has API | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free to use | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — |
| Founded | 2023 | 2023 |
| Maker | Open WebUI, Inc. | Menlo Research Pte. Ltd. |
| Verdict | 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... |
Jan is what many people mean by ChatGPT on their own laptop. It pulls GGUF models from Hugging Face and runs them offline through a bundled llama.cpp engine (MLX on Apple Silicon), and connectors for OpenAI, Anthropic, G... |
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