Quickstart for OpenWebUI

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI designed to operate entirely offline. It supports various LLM runners, including Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Includes Ollama's default setup.

Deploy OpenWebUI on Elestio

1. Open the OpenWebUI deployment page and sign in, or create an account.
2. Choose a cloud provider, a region and a data center. Pick the region closest to your users for the lowest latency.
3. Choose an instance size. Elestio only lists the sizes that can run OpenWebUI properly (at least 4 vCPU and 8 GB of RAM).
4. Choose your support plan and the maintenance window for system and software updates (times are in UTC).
5. Click Create Service. OpenWebUI is deployed and ready in a few minutes, and you receive an email with the access details.

The full walkthrough with screenshots is in the installation guide.

Access OpenWebUI

Open your service in the Elestio dashboard and go to the Overview tab. Click Display Admin UI to reveal the URL, username and password of your OpenWebUI instance.

If the password field is blank, OpenWebUI does not ship with a pre-created admin user: open the admin URL to start its setup. Software without a web interface, such as databases, is reached with the credentials and port listed in the same tab. See Admin UI and credentials.

Next steps

• Custom domain and SSL: point your own domain to OpenWebUI (guide).
• Backups: new services follow a 3-2-1 backup strategy by default (backups).
• Updates: manage the OpenWebUI version and update policy (software versions and updates).
• Learn OpenWebUI: read the official OpenWebUI documentation.