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Open WebUI · in Europe?

Open WebUI alternatives in the EU.

Is Open WebUI hosted in the EU? Only if you host it there. Open WebUI is self-hosted, with no hosted service of its own, and its models run wherever the providers you connect run them: local ones on your servers, or a cloud provider's region.

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Side by side

Open WebUI or Chat with Work, side by side.

What people worry about in Open WebUI, beside Chat with Work. Each row links its source.

What people worry about in Open WebUI, beside Chat with Work
Concern Open WebUI Chat with Work
Tools run without asking by default Tools
Partly: Approval is experimental, off by default Yes: Changes ask first, unless you let them run
No hosted service to start from Open WebUI
No: You install, run, and update it Yes: Nothing to install; we host it in Germany
Only a clock starts its automations Automations
Partly: Once, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly Yes: A time, mail, GitHub, a webhook, a message
Its models run wherever you point them Open WebUI FAQ
Partly: Prompts go to the provider you connect Yes: GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU

Pick Open WebUI when

  • You'll run and update it yourselves
  • You want a chat for your own local models
  • You'll build tools in Python or MCP

Pick Chat with Work when

  • Bots in the EU on every plan
  • You'd rather describe a bot than build one
  • Changes ask first, unless you let them run
  • GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU
  • Self-serve, free to start
  • You may need to self-host

Self-hosted AI assistant

Every detail, side by side, from Open WebUI's own pages
Open WebUI and Chat with Work, side by side
Dimension Open WebUI Chat with Work
What it is A self-hosted AI interface for local and cloud models (Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, or anything compatible), with knowledge bases, tools and functions in Python, MCP, shared channels, automations, and roles, groups, SSO, LDAP, and SCIM for users. AI bots and an assistant for your team's tools, as a service or on your own servers.
Bots that work by themselves Automations run a prompt once, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or on a custom RRULE, each run a new chat; a clock is their only trigger. Timers, off by default with Sub-agents, send a prompt back into a chat later. In channels, models answer when someone tags them, and outside apps can join and answer @mentions. Bots start on a time, or when something happens: mail to their address or in Outlook, a GitHub issue, a webhook, the API, another agent, or a message in Slack, Discord, or Chatwoot. They work through the integrations you give them, on every plan and the trial.
How you set one up Give an automation a title, instructions, a model, and a schedule, or ask in a chat ("Schedule a daily summary report at 9am") with a model that has native function calling. Say what it should do in a chat, and approve the bot on one card, or start from one of 105 recipes. Its instructions stay plain words, and it works out the steps each time: no workflow to wire.
Before it changes anything "By default a model runs its tool calls as soon as it makes them." An admin can turn on Tool Permissions, experimental and off by default: Ask for approval stops at each call, and Auto lets the chat model or a review service decide which calls ask. Channel replies always run with full access; automations run in Auto when it's offered, otherwise with full access. Integrations start at Read. Changes ask first, shown as they will run, unless you let a bot's changes run; deleting asks unless you allow that one tool. Every change and question waiting for you, from every chat and bot, is in one queue.
Available in Europe Wherever you run it: you host it yourself, so there's no regional limit. Yes, on every plan and the trial.
Where your data and the models are On your servers: "Open WebUI does not send your data to external services by default." Prompts go to the model provider you connect, local or hosted. Work tools come through MCP or OpenAPI tool servers you add, or oikb, a separate tool that mirrors 44 sources (Confluence, Notion, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, and more) into knowledge bases. The app on our servers in Germany, and GPT, Gemini, and Claude, all in the EU. Web search, off by default, leaves the EU. Or on your own servers.
Self-hosting Yes, and only that: pip, Docker, or Kubernetes. Since v0.6.6 (April 2025) its licence adds a branding clause to BSD-3: above 50 users in 30 days, "Open WebUI" branding must stay unless an enterprise licence allows otherwise. Its docs say it isn't an OSI-approved open-source licence. Yes. Ask about self-hosting.
Price Free to self-host with its branding intact. Enterprise licences (white-labelling, support, Terminals, Tether) by quote, for organizations only; no prices published. Free to start. From €20 a month for one person, and from €25 per person for teams plus VAT.

Checked November 15, 2026. Open WebUI changes often; these are the sources, with the date each shows. Where a page refused us or we read a third party, it says so.

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FAQ

Open WebUI in Europe, answered.

Is Open WebUI hosted in the EU?

Only if you host it there. Open WebUI is self-hosted, with no hosted service of its own, and its models run wherever the providers you connect run them: local ones on your servers, or a cloud provider's region.

Is Open WebUI free for companies?

To self-host, yes, if you keep its branding: since v0.6.6 its licence forbids changing the "Open WebUI" branding for more than 50 users in 30 days without an enterprise licence, and its docs say it isn't an OSI-approved open-source licence. Chat with Work can be self-hosted too, with a licence for each install.

Does Open WebUI ask before it uses a tool?

Not by default: a model runs its tool calls as soon as it makes them. An admin can turn on Tool Permissions, still experimental, for Ask for approval, or Auto, where a model decides which calls ask; channel replies always run with full access. Chat with Work's bots ask before each change unless you let them run.

What is an Open WebUI alternative in the EU?

Chat with Work: an assistant and bots for your team's tools, on our servers in Germany with every model in the EU, nothing to install. Or on your own servers, where every model call can run on local models through Ollama or GPUStack.

AI bots in Europe, today.

Pick a bot from a recipe, or describe it in a chat. It runs in the EU on every plan, and its changes ask first unless you let them run.

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