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owui

Overview

owui is a fast and flexible CLI written in Go for managing multiple Open WebUI instances — an open-source project that provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with various LLMs.

It ships as a single binary and runs cross-platform (Linux/macOS, amd64/arm64).

Features

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  • Manage multiple Open WebUI instances (add, remove, switch, list)
  • Health checking of instances
  • Manage users (list, create, remove, update roles, group membership)
  • Manage groups (list, add, remove, update, members, permissions)
  • Manage models (list, show details, enable/disable, set visibility, group access)
  • Manage functions, tools and pipelines
  • Interactive TUI wizards for adding instances
  • JSON and pretty-printed table output formats
  • Shell completions (bash, zsh, fish, powershell)
  • Per-user configuration with auto-detection of the config directory
  • Self-update: owui update replaces the binary in-place; a background check notifies you of new releases

About Open WebUI

Section titled “About Open WebUI”

owui is designed to work with Open WebUI, which provides a user-friendly web interface for interacting with various Large Language Models (LLMs) and lets you run multiple instances with different configurations or LLM backends.