Open WebUI vs LibreChat
Side-by-side comparison of Open WebUI and LibreChat for local, private document Q&A.
| Open WebUI | LibreChat | |
|---|---|---|
| License | Custom (BSD-3 based, branding clause) | MIT |
| Latest release | v0.12.2 | no GitHub release (tags only) |
| Release date | 2026-10-14 | — |
| Hardware | Light server; LLM via Ollama unverified | Server + separate RAG API with pgvector unverified |
| Document types | PDF, DOCX, TXT, web unverified | PDF, DOCX, TXT unverified |
| OCR / tables / retrieval | Optional OCR/Docling/Tika extractors; hybrid search + rerank off by default | Basic; no reranking unverified |
| Cloud calls | None by default | Default embeddings use OpenAI; lite image cannot embed locally unverified |
| Fully offline | Yes | Needs config |
| Status | Active | No tracked release |
Last updated 2026-10-24. Fields marked unverified are summarized from docs and reviews and have not been checked against primary sources yet.
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