Managed Open WebUI Hosting — production-ready from $15 a month
Web interface for Ollama and local LLMs. Deployed on your own dedicated instance in AWS, Azure, or GCP, kept patched, backed up, and monitored by ManageStacks — standard Open WebUI, no lock-in.
Open WebUI is an extensible web interface for interacting with Ollama and other LLM backends. ManageStacks deploys it with pre-configured model connections, SSL, and persistent chat history.
What does Open WebUI do, and why do teams deploy it?
Open WebUI is a feature-rich, self-hosted web interface for interacting with large language models served by Ollama, OpenAI-compatible APIs, and other backends. It provides a polished ChatGPT-like experience with multi-model support, conversation management, and document retrieval augmented generation.
With built-in RAG capabilities, user management, model customization, and a plugin system, Open WebUI is ideal for teams and organizations that want a private, extensible AI chat platform without relying on third-party SaaS providers.
- ChatGPT-style interface for local and remote LLMs
- Built-in RAG with document upload and retrieval
- Multi-user support with role-based access
- Model management and Modelfile customization
- Plugin and function-calling framework
- Conversation history with search and export
Web interface for Ollama and local LLMs
What does managed Open WebUI hosting cost?
Flat per-app pricing, in your chosen AWS, Azure, or GCP region. No per-user pricing — a busy deployment costs the same as a quiet one.
Starter
Staging and internal tools. Dedicated instance, TLS, daily backups, managed upgrades.
Standard
Production workloads. Adds monitoring, staging environment, region choice, priority support.
Business
High-traffic and compliance workloads. Adds a high-availability replica and same-day support.
24×7 SRE retainer
Round-the-clock on-call across every hosted application, for teams that need a pager answered at 3am.
When is self-hosting Open WebUI the right answer instead?
“Managed hosting is not always the correct call.”
Self-host when a platform team already runs the infrastructure and on-call rotation to operate Open WebUI at genuinely low marginal cost. Self-host when compliance requires an air-gapped or on-premises deployment that no hosted option can satisfy. And self-host when the deployment depends on heavy customisation with a fast internal build-deploy loop, because an internal release process will beat any managed change process.
For everyone else — teams whose engineers have better things to do than shepherd upgrades — managed hosting is cheaper than the hours it replaces.
Which cloud should Open WebUI run on — AWS, Azure or GCP?
For most workloads, the choice of cloud matters less than proximity: run Open WebUI in the same cloud and region as the applications and data it talks to, because every request between them adds a round trip. The underlying compute performs equivalently across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
In practice, an existing cloud footprint decides it. All plans support all three clouds, and moving regions later is a scheduled migration, not a rebuild.
Deepest managed-service catalog, default when there's no existing footprint
Best fit for teams already on Microsoft 365 or Entra ID
Strongest for data/analytics-adjacent workloads
Every plan supports AWS, Azure, and GCP — region choice included.
Common questions about Open WebUI on ManageStacks
Can I connect Open WebUI to Ollama on ManageStacks?
Yes. ManageStacks deploys Open WebUI with a pre-configured connection to your Ollama instance, so models are available immediately without manual endpoint setup.
Does ManageStacks support GPU inference for Open WebUI?
ManageStacks provisions GPU-enabled infrastructure for Ollama backends. Open WebUI connects to the Ollama API, so all inference benefits from GPU acceleration automatically.
How are chat histories backed up on ManageStacks?
ManageStacks runs automated daily backups of the Open WebUI database, which stores all conversations, user accounts, and uploaded documents. Point-in-time recovery is available on request.
Run Open WebUI without carrying the pager
Subscribe through your AWS, Azure, or GCP marketplace. We handle provisioning, SSL, monitoring, backups, updates, and security. From $15/mo.